When Xbox did this you paid monthly, subscribed to game pass and at the end of two years you owned the console. It was also less expensive than the separate cost of console and subscription, to the tune of 1p. 😂
Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract
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OrionTheElder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 day ago
It wasn’t a bad deal for me. I was going to be paying for Game Pass anyway, and this was when the consoles weren’t always staying on shelves. Managed to snag one of the lease-to-own versions or whatever and never regretted it.
OrionTheElder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Back then, my wife wanted to play Halo 5 co-op and without split screen, this was the best way to do it.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
In the US I think I saved $20 at the end of 2 years by getting the console and gamepass bundle. Then canceled gamepass when they raised the price.
MBech@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Let me guess, if it isn’t in 100% mint condition when you return it, you get to pay for it, including a service fee of 150€ for their inconvenience.
Tamps@feddit.uk 1 day ago
People used to rent their televisions because the technology was too expensive to own outright. It’s weird that this business model is becoming viable again, and specifically for hardware that’s been in circulation for a while. I appreciate that Sony are just looking at ways to expand their player base, and i’d presume some of the economic drivers are out of their control, but I don’t think this should be encouraged or tolerated.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s viable again because well… gestures vaguely at everything
HP just launched a laptop ‘subscription’ service too. It’s a rather disgusting sign of the times. Companies would love for this to become the norm, because renting is a highly profitable game. Get that sweet money coming in month after month. And you are right; we must not encourage them.
I’d rather save up and go to the second-hand marketplace than line a corpo’s pocket by renting.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Hell, at least when I did this for my Series X & GP, it was 0% interest and I kept it at the end of the 24 month period! Granted it was $35/mo not $13.50, but that’s crazy to lease a console without the option to buy after. 13.5x36=486 so you should buy outright for, say, $150 after?
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 1 day ago
People are buying takeout on credit. Pushing small recurring fees (and interest) for things consumers can’t afford to buy outright has sort of been the name of the game for the consumer economy for the last 20 years or so.
Maybe more interesting that there is enough of an overstock to do this.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Well, anyone who gets these need to ensure they only buy physical games otherwise they’ll be left with a bunch of games they can’t do anything with at the end of their lease…
Ryoae@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Furniture rental services are the devil’s work, it really is.
Semi-related, my family had rented furniture before. We had rented like this bedroom set and a wardrobe. It’s ludicrous to be into doing that. That’s why I thrift for furniture. Will I ever come across a PS5 thrifting? Probably never, not unless it’s just the shell of the console itself but even then someone will take it.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
recently a friend managed to snag a perfectly fine used ps5 for 200€. i think that’s a really nice price. buying used is just pretty epic for a lot of product categories.
Ryoae@piefed.social 19 hours ago
With the PS5 getting older, I think it’s 6 years old now which is hard to believe and people anticipating the PS6. I’m not really surprised that deals are coming up like that. I think someone on the FB Marketplace wanted some $150 for a PS5.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Only use-case I’ve had for rental was when I was at a military school for five months. My roommate and I needed a TV in our barracks room, but there wasn’t much point in buying a TV (each of us had TVs back home), so we rented one for five months. It was great. One of us also bought a Wii (dating myself here), so it was a great time.
That’s about the only case I can think of renting furniture/appliances. If you are temporarily someplace and can’t thrift an item at a reasonable price.
riskable@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!
(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, “Damn, you were right!” And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can’t afford to buy PCs anymore)
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Sorry, you don’t get any points for this prediction, because it already exists.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pomC1CfpC0
You’re late to the party, GN released this a year ago. They’ve been doing this already, but because most people who PC game are semi-tech savy, build their own.
taiyang@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
To be fair I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn’t be that much of a stretch lol
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
Can’t recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn’t even ship the hardware they advertised.
Anyway, point was it’s already being tested in the wild…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 22 hours ago
Pretty common in corporations. In a company I used to work I got a new computer with the latest specs every year. In the one I’m now they own them and I have to fight to get upgrades.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
No, because PC is an open platform, not dependent on specific hardware.
tinsuke@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
You’ll own nothing. And be happier for it.
Is what corporations and the predatory class would have we believe.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We could also rent our couch! It’s only $25/month!
fortnitefinn@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Useful idiots go crazy
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
You shall own nothing.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
I paid $30-something a month for an Xbox Series X and GamePass for 2 years. And I got to keep the Xbox!
(Xbox All Access. It’s no longer offered. And you saved $20 if you did it, at the original price of GamePass Ultimate, $15/month, it’s since doubled in price since they told Congress buying Activision would lower prices for consumers.)
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“You will own nothing and you will be happy”