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From Circana analyst Matt Piscatella's BlueSky account:

PlayStation 5 Pro accounted for 19% of total PlayStation 5 units sold in the month and 28% of dollars. Launch month dollar sales of PlayStation 5 Pro were more than 50% higher than the November 2016 launch month sales of PlayStation 4 Pro, while units were 12% lower.

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[–] pastel_de_airfryer 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sony saw how much money people were willing to pay scalpers for the PS5 at launch and decided to cut the middleman this time