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Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen is making waves on 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (“Geha”) board after it emerged that the PS5 physical edition’s used trade-in price on release day had dropped to roughly a quarter of the usual amount (6,000 yen). The thread is split between two theories: one holds that the opening of a pirate-game store around the same time pushed more people to resell their copies, while the other is structural — the disc contains only the base game, and since stores can’t verify whether the paper DLC code has already been redeemed, they buy it back as if it were the “vanilla” (non-Dark Arisen) version. The discussion also touches on how the Switch 2 version behaves differently, since it uses a key-card system.

14AnonymousOct 9, 2026 13:38

No different from the vanilla version

23AnonymousOct 9, 2026 13:40

Re: #14
Oh, I figured this was about the vanilla version

※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen’s PS5 Trade-In Price Gets Cut in Half on Release Day lol”.

On 5ch’s Hardware & Industry board (known as “Geha”), posters were chatting based on Weekly Famitsu’s Top 30 sales chart. The talk centered on reports that nearly 30,000 copies of Wolverine are still sitting unsold in the market, and that a brand-new first-party title had already dropped out of the rankings in just its third week on sale. The thread also brought up whether bundle editions of Dragon Quest XI S and Octopath Traveler would end up in bargain bins (so-called “wagon sales”), and — as usual — the regular back-and-forth continued over whether it’s Switch 2’s third-party games or PS5’s first-party games that are really struggling.

*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware & Industry, aka “Geha”) thread “[10/9] Famitsu Top 30 Update.”

Unofficial leaks report that Sony is developing a handheld, the “PS6 Portable” — essentially a new PSP — alongside its next console, the “PS6.” The PS6 is expected to stay above $1,000 due to soaring component costs, and the new PSP is drawing attention as a cheaper device that can still run PS4/PS5 titles. New information also suggests the screen will be around 8 inches, with storage following the Switch 2’s approach of internal SSD plus a high-speed SD card slot. On 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board, discussion kept going, mixing concerns that it would inherit the Switch 2’s weight and battery problems, debate over the leaked TFLOPS figures, and comments that it “looks like nothing but a Switch clone.”

Multiple sources have reported that Sony is developing a handheld gaming device, the “PS6 Portable” — essentially a new PSP — alongside its next-generation console, the “PlayStation 6.” Note that Sony has not officially announced either device by name, so for now this remains unofficial information.

As for the console PS6, its suggested retail price is expected to stay above $1,000 due to rising component costs, including memory. Because of this, attention is turning to the new PSP, which is said to support PS4/PS5 titles and would presumably be relatively cheaper, letting you “display on a big TV via a dock at home, and play on the built-in screen when out.”

Various new details about this new PSP have also surfaced, covering its processor, power consumption, and a storage setup described as “internal storage plus an SD card slot, like the Switch 2.”

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch Hardware/Industry (Geha) board thread “Tane: ‘New PSP Said to Have ~8-Inch Screen, Internal SSD + High-Speed SD Card’.”