I've been seeing a lot of news about the new Xbox and Playstation consoles getting bought up by 'bots so scalpers can resell them at extortion level price mark ups, and Sony and Microsoft don't seem to be doing anything to stop it. At first I thought they might not have any incentive to, after all, no matter who buys the console they still get their money, why would they care if it got in the hands of a scummy scalper or an actual fan? Well there IS one way we can affect their bottom line and MAKE them care. You see, the scalpers are only buying the consoles so they can resell them, that means they aren't buying games or accessories, which is where most of the profit goes in the gaming industry. So it's simple, if we all agree collectively to refuse to buy from scalpers we won't need to buy games or accessories for them, and when Sony and Microsoft see that their consoles are sold out yet they haven't sold any software for them that could force them to come up with a way to prevent scalpers from buying all their stock (seriously is it THAT hard to implement a capcha or something?)