UK gamers and politicians take aim at console ‘scalpers’

London: Furious British gamers and lawmakers are training their sights on “scalpers” who are buying up coveted PS5 and Xbox consoles and selling them online at vastly inflated prices.

The popular consoles have also been hard to come by in other parts of the world, but in Britain anger has boiled over to the point where some lawmakers want to ban the practice of reselling them online at higher prices.

“I’ve been trying to get a PS5 for four months now, but I can’t get one at a normal price,” said Tracey Ford, a student in Manchester, northwest England.