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Alright, I hate, I absolutely hate that almost every video I make about PlayStation 5 is a negative one because I just said on the Nintendo Prime podcast yesterday, if you didn't watch that like go up here, check it out, I said I am actually anticipating the PlayStation 5 a little bit more than the Xbox Series X just because of games, whether it's the PlayStation 4 library or whether it's Demon's Souls, right? I am very much looking forward to the games Sony has on Slate. The problem is the consumer friendliness is absolutely asinine from this company. I don't know why they're doing this. They are so high like on themselves that they feel like they can continue to fleece consumers over and over and over again and not be transparent about anything, whereas Microsoft like, I feel like Microsoft earns my money just based on the honesty. Now I'm getting both a PlayStation 5 and a Series X, so that's not, you know, it's not like a console bias thing, it's just, I can't help that Microsoft's being consumer friendly and Sony isn't. And today we have a new update from Sony on some pricing for some Demon's Souls that is just absolutely ridiculous and it's fleecing, absolutely fleecing consumers of PlayStation. Oh my gosh. Let's let's check this out. Check this out. This was over on Twitter. So as you have a tweet from John Cartwright, great guy, and he says, excuse me, 100 euros. So here's what it says. This is the official listing from Sony, from PlayStation 5 for Demon's Souls for the Deluxe Edition. All right. So the Deluxe Edition of Demon's Souls is available to preorder today at the PlayStation Store for 89.99 USD or 99.99 euros. The full game and additional in-game digital content prepare you for the ultimate challenge. It includes an original soundtrack, the legendary hero soul, the renowned warrior soul, storied warrior soul, red-eyed knight armor, the Bolterian royalty armor, ritual blade, hop light shield, ring of longevity, preservation gains, phosphorescent grains, sorry it was preservation grains, and then beer bug grains. Now none of this is like a huge deal and whether or not it's worth it to you is beyond me, but read that again, 89.99 for the Deluxe Digital Edition. Remember it is 69.99, so 70 bucks normally for the normal edition. So there you are. There's so many charging that $70 premium and then 99 euros. Guys, the euro as of today is worth more than the USD, more than US currency. So not only are they charging you 10 more euros in addition to the $10 USD, they're charging you a currency at a higher value that's worth more money. So what this translates to is roughly $110 USD. So what a $20 price hike over the United States and they're going to get away with it. Because fans are just not going to care. Now I presume PlayStation 5 like all current gen systems is region free and you could just buy it over on the North American eShop or North American PlayStation Store, sorry you guys know I cover a lot of Nintendo stuff, but I baffled that there isn't more outrage over this. What 625 likes and you know 50 retweets or whatever like that's nothing hardly anyone knows this is happening. They are just fleecing consumers out in Europe. They are saying hey not only are we price hiking games this generation, by the way for our digital Deluxe version we're charging you $20 USD more than we're going to charge consumers in the US because you guys are going to spend it. You're going to spend it. We can't even even it out. We can't even make it 89.99 euros and 89.99 USD at least then, at least then you could have this argument that oh the difference is just the value of the currencies right, but that's not the difference here. The difference isn't the value of the currencies because the higher valued currency they're charging more of that currency. If anything it should be higher USD than it should be euros. It should be the other way around, but it's not and I'm not trying to argue like they should increase the price of the North American one. I think it should only be a $20 or 20 euro increase period. It should like why is it 30 euros more? What is happening here? Why Sony? This is the game that is selling your system at launch. Demon Souls is the premiere launch game for your platform. It is the only exclusive game, the only one that exists, the only premium triple A exclusive game that exists between PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, the only exclusive game at launch is this game and Sony knows it and they saw the hype. They've seen the excitement. They know their fans in Europe are going to spend 99.99 euros happily spending more. Why are you begrudgingly, but they're going to spend it. They're doing it because they can get away with it. This is like the same thing when we talk about Nintendo and when they charge you know 60 bucks for a straight Wii U port or like charge you 60 bucks for donking on tropical freeze when it wasn't even 60 bucks when it released on Wii U was 40. Nintendo was fleecing consumers then too and they could do it because they know they're going to get away with it. Sony is doing it again and I don't get it. I don't understand what's going on in Sony's mind. Like if you are the CEO of Sony or a higher-up of Sony that's making these decisions, what's going through your mind right now that it's okay to start eroding your consumer trust? Consumers right now should be very, very wary of what Sony is doing with the PlayStation 5 platform. Extremely wary. Extremely because Sony is showing that they don't care about being friendly to consumers right now because they know they own you. They know you want to play Demon's Souls. It doesn't matter what we charge. You're only going to be able to get it here. You want to play Miles Morales. It doesn't matter what we charge. You can only play it on our platforms. Oh, you want to play that remastered PlayStation 4 version. Yeah, guess what? You better pay $70 to play it. We can't offer you an upgrade on its own. We can't separate it out. We can't charge you a smaller fee. We can't just give it to you for free like Microsoft is doing. No, no, no, no. Some third parties are doing it for free. We have to charge you. We have to charge you 70. And what's frustrating is I don't want to be negative about Sony. I really don't. Like I'm looking forward to the PlayStation 5 platform. I'm looking forward to getting into the back catalog of PlayStation 4 games I didn't play. I'm looking forward to the next games they bring to the platform. I'm legitimately looking forward to PlayStation 5. But from just a pure consumer level, you know, getting rid of my curiosity in your games, getting rid of my curiosity in the technology, like if I was just a normal everyday gamer, why the hell would I trust Sony with any of my money right now? They're charging you more. They're charging Europeans even more. They are not being transparent about anything. They won't tell us how much storage is going to cost or what M.2 SSDs are even usable to expand the storage. They're not being forthright about anything. They're not even letting media members have access to the system when we're less than like six weeks away from this platform releasing. We haven't seen the UI. Like we haven't seen anything like they're just, there's one thing to be tight. Like to hold things close to your vest, but Microsoft is just being honest about everything every step of the way with Phil Spencer. Since the Xbox Series X was announced last year has been forthright and honest and even if you hate that Microsoft bought Bethesda, that's fine. But at least you can probably respect it from a business perspective. You can understand why Microsoft would do it because the big criticism is they don't have enough big exclusive games. Okay, so they go buy a company that makes them. It makes sense from a business perspective, even if you might not like it from a gamer perspective because now you might not get Starfield and other properties like the next Elder Scrolls on PlayStation 5. I get it. I get not liking that. But how can we sit here and just give Sony a pass? I'm not going to let that happen. I'm not going to give Sony a pass. And if Microsoft was doing this crap, I wouldn't give them a pass either. Heck, I don't give Nintendo a pass. We are primarily Nintendo channel even though today has been a lot of talk about Xbox and PlayStation. It doesn't matter. I am so frustrated right now. Just absolutely frustrated with Sony. How can they do this to their European consumers? How can you do this? How can you charge them so much more for this bullshit digital content? This is the premiere game. This is the game that's getting people to buy PlayStation 5 day one or trying to get one day two, day three whenever restacks come in. And this is the bullshit you're pulling? I mean, that's not even getting to, you know, hey, a whole lot of the video I was going to do about how, hey, guess what, GameStop and other companies are done taking pre-orders because guess what? A lot of people's pre-orders being pushed into 2021. Yeah, you hear that? Hear that? Yeah, here you go. Let's send here some more breaking news and it'll probably end up in the headline somewhere too, because there's more negative news. PlayStation pre-orders, people who pre-ordered it at several retailers are being sent emails that they will not receive their system until 2021. And that whole situation could have been avoided if Sony were to let these retailers know honest to goodness stock levels before they accepted pre-orders. Microsoft did? I've yet to see a single Microsoft Series X or Series S pre-order canceled. Why? Microsoft gave such a long runway to the pre-order date and to the pre-order time that they were able to give retailers exact numbers on how many pre-orders they could take. Sony didn't do that. Word on the street from both my local GameStop manager and from someone I know that works at another gaming company out in Australia is that when Sony's PlayStation 5 pre-orders went live at all these retailers' websites and in store, none of them actually knew how many units they were going to get. Sony never told the retailers how many units they were going to get before they were allowing retailers to accept pre-orders. So now we're having major retailers at GameStop sending emails out, hey, you're not going to get your system until 2021. What the hell is Sony doing? I get that pandemic. Give excuses. Pandemic. This is a company launching a platform that's supposed to be the backbone of really the backbone of all of Sony because their gaming division is their most profitable, the backbone of their company for the next five to six years. I don't care if COVID's happening. You don't see Microsoft making these mistakes. I'm frustrated. If I was not a tech YouTuber, if I was not talking about video games on YouTube, I probably would cancel PlayStation 5 pre-order and be done with it because I hate supporting this kind of bullshit they're doing until they get their act together. But I feel obligated, I'm interested in the technology, there's games I want to play, so call me a hypocrite, but I have a job to do and I want to be able to correctly talk about these games in the future and do cross comparisons and have better gaming discussions because I have hands-on experience and I'm not going to have the hands-on experience if I don't buy the system. So basically if it wasn't for my quote-unquote job that's not a job here on YouTube, I wouldn't be buying the PlayStation 5 right now, not until Sony gets their act together. But here we go. They messed up pre-orders, they messed up a lot of things and now they're overcharging people in Europe for the same content, they're charging for less in the US. Someday I will be able to make a positive video of PlayStation 5 and it'll probably be about the game itself, like I'll play Demon's Souls or I'll play Miles Morales and you know I'll have probably a glowing opinion of the game or of the games and that'll be a positive twist. But it would be nice to talk positively about the PlayStation 5 as a platform and Sony and how they're behaving as a company. But until I get a reason to talk positively, thank you guys for tuning into this video, catch you in the next one.