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Message: [QUOTE="Famine, post: 13511452, member: 9036"] [b][color=indigo]A lot - but at the same time it's still pretty annoying. Estimates put the early US market at a scalping rate of about 10-15%, while the UK market was nearer to 5%. That's two of the biggest markets, averaging out to about 10%, and if we assume that's representative globally it means about 1.3m consoles sold have initially gone to people reselling them (or taking them to CEX, who were offering 10-20% over RRP for trade-ins; good going, guys). However that assumes that the problem is constant. In reality, as more consoles have become available, scalping is becoming less and less profitable, so it has become less of an issue over time. 10% in the first two quarters is probably a safe assumption (so 740k consoles), but it's likely far less now. We can probably assume that it's around a million consoles globally. We're likely to see the problem increase again slightly towards Christmas (got to get little Billy his PS5 for yelling racist and homophobic abuse at people in Call of Duty), but supply seems to be improving too - there's more and more stock drops of both consoles right now. Sony needs it to as well, as Q3 is the big one.[/color][/b] [/QUOTE]