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A thread reported that the buyback price for the PS5 Pro at used-goods chain Rudeya has climbed to ¥180,600 — far above its original retail price. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, users debated what’s really behind the shortage and whether scalping is involved. The thread also cited Famitsu’s weekly sales data showing the PS5 Pro sold a mere 277 units in the most recent week, sparking discussion about the gap between such low official sales figures and the sky-high buyback price. Opinions split between those who think Sony is deliberately limiting production and those who suspect speculative buying is driving the frenzy, with the debate extending into just how many people are actually playing games on their PS5 Pro at all.
What people said
Guess I'll just scalp it then
That's just sad.
PS5 / 105 units (5,919,815 total)
PS5 Digital Edition / 6,969 units (1,415,265 total)
PS5 Pro / 277 units (368,932 total)
https://www.famitsu.com/article/202609/86517
You making fun of the 'Three-Digit Box' (a 5ch nickname mocking the Xbox for its perpetually three-digit weekly sales in Japan)?
Huh?
I'm a hoarder, so I've got 7 brand-new 2TB SSDs stocked up
Back then they were only ¥10,000-something
For reference
An unpopular console just sitting unsold at Edion (an electronics retail chain)
23 Anonymous (working hard, as always — the board's default handle) sage (posted without bumping the thread) 2026/09/04 (Fri) 18:37:25.89 ID:QnlzAaWV0
1 Anonymous (working hard, as always) [] 2026/09/04 (Fri) 18:29:03.05 ID:Agrp5+zp0
https://www.edion.com/item_list.html?c_cd=001010019001
Only sold 2 units in about the past week
615 left in stock
Sony's happy — hardware sells
The buyback shop's happy — they skim a cut
The scalpers are happy — they profit
Win-win-win for everybody
Sony's actually the side that doesn't want the hardware to sell
Their own president basically said they don't need to sell it
Software publisher: 'Even when they show us the PS5 numbers, we can't help but wonder if it's really selling that much…'
Have you actually seen a Pro for sale anywhere lately?
And that's despite the GTA 6 demand
Can't be helped — even at the hiked price of ¥140,000 they're selling it at a huge loss
Realistically they'd need to charge something like ¥300,000 to not lose money on this thing
It's got a built-in 2TB SSD after all
No wonder it's turning into a premium item
Meanwhile, that 256GB piece of junk…
I got mine a month later through Amazon's lottery draw
Nice
Even just owning one is super rare these days — let's both take good care of ours
Only about 5% of people worldwide even own a Pro, so owning one AND being on this board might make you rare among the rare
Sorry about that, I guess
Looking back, that was incredibly lucky
Which means everyone who said 'that's insanely expensive, no way that's a real console price' back then
was the one who ended up looking dumb
If that became possible, Rudeya's (a used-goods buyback chain) buyback price would just skyrocket even further
So just keep an eye on Rudeya, lol
Not selling it though
They'll keep holding back shipments, which only deepens the shortage
Units get snapped up by Chinese buyers and never actually get used domestically
On top of that
Re: #65
Re: #66
with that kind of speculative mindset, the real-world usage rate keeps dropping even further
Software publishers grow more suspicious of the gap between units sold and revenue, and more of them keep abandoning the platform
Even while they're gloating over gacha spending and scalper prices,
somehow all the supposedly 'dead' single-purchase Japanese games keep landing on the Switch 2 instead
Cue the PS diehards ('Shou-chan,' a mocking 5ch nickname for PlayStation fanboys) having an absolute meltdown
It's exactly this 'I won't buy it, but I'll gloat about the resale price' mindset that's killing PlayStation
In a healthy market, the buyback price would never exceed the MSRP in the first place
I am
Just picked up 'B-Kane' (an abbreviated fan nickname for a game title) recently and dropped it almost immediately, lol
Aren't you basically an endangered species at this point?
I don't think so
It's not like the price is so steep that people on this board, of all places, wouldn't buy one
I bet there are a fair few of us here
Nah, there's gotta be like only 1 or 2 people, right?
Is it embarrassing to admit you own one or something?
Isn't that more the case for that piece of junk down to a ¥35,000 buyback just one year after launch?
It's just that I never see anyone actually say they own one
But since this is a crowd that gloats over comments like Re: #79, I guess Sony can't help but keep doing it
the profit completely outweighs the effort of scalping it
It's basically like Sony's handing out New Year's cash, lol
It's a golden reselling setup — you just forward the thing you received and pocket tens of thousands of yen
Even people with zero interest in games are buying PS5s
Back when it was getting scalped before, even housewives who clearly don't play games were buying up PS5s like crazy
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
Since its 2024 launch, the PS5 Pro has had its price raised to ¥140,000, and posters in the thread suggest Sony is likely selling it at a loss (below cost). The ¥180,600 buyback price that sparked this discussion sits well above that retail price, apparently driven by shortages at physical stores and tightly limited production. Official data such as Famitsu’s weekly sales figures (277 PS5 Pro units sold, 368,932 cumulative) were cited alongside skepticism about how many units are actually in active use. The thread split between viewing this as “a genuine shortage driven by strong demand” versus “speculative price inflation involving scalpers and buyback shops,” with those in the latter camp questioning just how many people are actually playing games on the console. Worth noting: a buyback price exceeding the retail price is itself an unusual situation rarely seen in the ordinary consumer electronics market.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Good News] Rudeya’s PS5 Pro Buyback Price Hits ¥180,600 — Sources Included“.
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