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Sony Japan has introduced measures to make it harder for scalpers to spoil the experience for players looking to buy the PlayStation 5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition in Japan.
According to the Japanese Sony PlayStation website, players who want to pre-order the console need an active Sony account registered in Japan. Additionally, they must have logged at least 30 hours of PS4 or PS5 gameplay on that account between February 2014 and September 19th, 2024.
These steps are being taken to fight scalpers. It turns out that scalpers have been securing pre-orders for the limited edition variant, which opened earlier this week, and listing them on e-commerce sites like eBay for astronomical prices. Sony set the pre-order price of the limited edition at $1,000, but it’s now being sold on eBay for anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000. The situation has become this extreme mainly because Sony has only made 12,300 units available worldwide to mark the December 3rd, 1994 PS1 launch.
While the introduction of these measures to pre-order the PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition in Japan is a positive step by Sony to combat scalping, it would have been even better if these measures were implemented globally. This way, Sony could have ensured that the console ended up in the hands of real gamers everywhere, rather than scalpers.
