Wow! Two at twice the price!

Bad news for all those video game fans who were planning on picking up two Playstation 5's on launch day later this year: the Playstation online store is limiting you to one per customer. Oh and fair warning, we're going to be talking about video games. What? I need a break from the unrelenting horror. Anyway if you need to bail, I'll understand.

One per customer means that if you want one for your mega yacht,
you'll have to make one of your servants to buy it for you.

Why buy a physical copy of a game when
you can pay Sony the exact same price to
enter into a digital licensing agreement?

Still there? Super. According to IGN, someone has looked through Sony's online store and found text that reads: "You can only purchase one version of the PS5 Console: Disc or Digital. You have already added one PS5 console to your cart." It seems to be an error message you'll get if you try to order more than one. And that disc or digital thing refers to the two different versions. One-presumably the more expensive-has a disc drive while the other-presumably for suckers-is digital only.

"Gouging, uh, finds a way."

But why the one per customer thing? Like, who even needs two of these things? Huh? Well, sure, obviously online resellers. Some enterprising parasites are already selling these things on eBay using photoshopped pics of the box. So maybe this is supposed to discourage that? But there's nothing stopping someone from buying one off of the Sony store and then ten more from other online retailers. So why even bother?

A rush of gamers wanting multiple PS5's seems even more unlikely given the price, which is one hundred percent going to be bananas. Sure, it hasn't been announced yet, but annalists who predict these sort of things think it's probably going to be around five hundred dollars. Yes, of money.

Hey, remember that time the head of Playstation told us
we should all want to work more hours to afford a PS3?
That...that didn't go well for them.

Wait, use my imagination?
Pfft...might as well read a book...

And that's based largely on the price of the high-tech components inside, but from the footage of the games we've seen so far, the improvement over the current generation of consoles is, you know, incremental. It's not like going from the use-your-imagination because "you're the dot" graphics of the Atari-era to Nintendo's "you're the pixel-y, yet identifiable as a plumber" graphics. Essentially you'd be paying five hundred dollars for marginally more realistic lighting and shorter load times.

Nothing to sneeze at, but also not something to put paying off rent for. So I guess what I'm getting at is limiting customers to one per-in the middle of a pandemic and the related economic crisis-because they're convinced that we'll all be so enticed by the vague benefits of ray-tracing seems a little, I don't know, optimistic?

On the other hand, America's rabid-foam consumerism grips
 us more tightly than any virus ever will, so, go for it, I guess.