[Drako]

This just leaves room for Sony to steal some market share from Microsoft with the PS5. That's very poor planning on Microsoft's part. There's a lot of money to be made this time of the year, and Microsoft is losing out on revenue because of their own fault.

But I will say the bots and scalpers aren't making new hardware releases any easier this year for producers or consumers. Nvidia still has a serious scalper problem with their new RTX 30 series. If you lookup "RTX 3090" right now, you'll get listings with RTX 3090s going for upwards of $2,000. That's a $500 price hike from the original $1,499 launch price set by Nvidia. While you can still find some RTX 3060s and 3070s, it's by no means a wide selection. Microsoft and Sony both have the same problems with scalpers. On an Xbox Series X, you can expect to pay at least $800, sometimes $1,000.

But I'm not invested in consoles anymore, so I don't have to worry about them. I don't even get frustrated over new computer hardware. New hardware just gets too expensive for my liking. But the nice thing about computer hardware is that I can wait 1 or 2 years for everyone to move on to the next hot piece of silicon so I can get a good deal.

I think I'm done rambling now.