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PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition Preorders Restricted to PSN Accounts With at Least 30 Hours of Runtime — in Japan - IGN (www.ign.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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While PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition preorders sparked a flurry of eBay listings with huge mark-ups in the West, in Japan Sony has an actual plan to beat the scapers.

As spotted by Automaton, the Japanese PlayStation homepage confirms that anyone who wants to preorder the PS5 Pro 30th anniversary edition in Japan has to meet the following conditions: have a PSN account registered in Japan, and have at least 30 hours of PS4 or PS5 runtime on the account between February 2014 and September 19, 2024.

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[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Valve showed how to do this right years ago at this point with the Steam Deck.

Force (or at least put a sizeable number of devices to be available for exclusive) purchase through their own store.
Limit to only a single unit purchase per official account.
Require the official account to have already been present before the device was announced to be available to purchase.

Boom. Scalper market collapsed for Steam Deck, PS5, etc.