Resellers may have sold over 8.5 billion yen by reselling PS5 and next-generation graphic boards
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An analysis of the $ 82 million eBay Scalping Market for Xbox, PS5, AMD, and NVIDIA --DEV
https://dev.to/driscoll42/an-analysis-of-the-80-million-ebay-scalping-market-for-xbox-ps5-amd-and-nvidia-f35
PS5 Made Scalpers A Lot Of Money, And This Report Tries To Determine Just How Much --GameSpot
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps5-made-scalpers-a-lot-of-money-and-this-report-tries-to-determine-just-how-much/1100-6485504/
Driscoll created a script for web scraping a list of products sold on eBay, an online auction site, to investigate the reality of resellers. The scraping script created by Mr. Driscoll is published on GitHub, but it should be noted that it analyzes only the products sold in the United States.
According to the analysis, PS5 was the most resold, and the total number of 'things sold to the United States on eBay' alone is over 32,000. The manufacturer's suggested retail price of PS5 in the United States is $ 499 for the regular version (49,980 yen excluding tax in Japan) and $ 399 for the digital version (39,980 yen excluding tax in Japan), but the median resale price is the regular version. Is $ 1021 (about 106,000 yen), and the digital version is $ 937 (about 98,000 yen).
The actual resale of PS5 is as follows.
・ Resale number
Normal version: 25,642 units, Digital version: 7322 units
・ Median resale price
Regular version: $ 1021 (about 106,000 yen), digital version: $ 937 (about 98,000 yen)
・ Gross sales
Regular version: $ 27,537,790 (about 2,870 million yen), Digital version: $ 7,215,539 (about 750 million yen)
Based on the median resale price of PS5, the graph below shows how many times the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) has been resold. The median resale price of the digital version is 250% (2.5 times) or more of MSRP, and the median resale price of the regular version is 150% (1.5 times) or more.
On the other hand, the actual resale of Microsoft's Xbox Series X / S is as follows. The manufacturer's retail price in the United States is $ 499 for the Xbox Series X (49,980 yen excluding tax in Japan) and $ 299 for the Xbox Series S (29,980 yen excluding tax in Japan).
・ Resale number:
Xbox Series X: 22,932 units, Xbox Series S: 6,863 units
・ Median resale price
Xbox Series X: $ 865 (about 90,000 yen), Xbox Series S: $ 469 (about 49,000 yen)
・ Gross sales
Xbox Series X: $ 2005,7283 (about 2,010 million yen), Xbox Series S: $ 3,533,691 (about 370 million yen)
Based on the median resale price of the Xbox Series X / S, the graph below shows how many times the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) has been resold.
Since September 2020, Driscoll has said that resellers have sold over $ 82 million in resale of products such as CPUs and graphics cards for next-generation game consoles and gamers, with a profit of $ 39 million (about 8.5 billion yen). It is analyzed that it amounts to 4 billion yen).
Since this analysis is only for 'things sold to the United States on eBay,' it is clear that the resale market is larger on a global scale. Also, if you look at the US resale market alone, it's important to note that there are multiple online auction sites, Facebook Marketplace , and Twitter direct message sales in addition to eBay.
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