hypertown@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 年前No games rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1752
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minus-squareRegalia@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up72·2 年前Wasn’t the reason they couldn’t produce more because of the semiconductor shortage?
minus-squarephx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up47·2 年前Partly, but scalpers buying up what inventory there was for reselling was absolutely rampant as well
minus-squareRenegadeTwister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 年前Yeah, but then they still sold the unit. How would that hurt their sales numbers?
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 年前it put me off buying one. I’m probably not the only one.
minus-squareRogueBanana@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 年前Scalpers were holding a lot of them and raised the prices so ppl gave up and got another console or a PC altogether. This may not be majority but definitely a singinificant difference and just 1 example for that.
minus-squarephx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 年前Yup. Sales numbers good, but brand loyalty down which isn’t good for future sales
Wasn’t the reason they couldn’t produce more because of the semiconductor shortage?
Partly, but scalpers buying up what inventory there was for reselling was absolutely rampant as well
Yeah, but then they still sold the unit. How would that hurt their sales numbers?
it put me off buying one. I’m probably not the only one.
Scalpers were holding a lot of them and raised the prices so ppl gave up and got another console or a PC altogether. This may not be majority but definitely a singinificant difference and just 1 example for that.
Yup. Sales numbers good, but brand loyalty down which isn’t good for future sales
Correct