@Th3solution Make sure you are signed into the sites and that all your details are up-to-date. Good luck, but i think you would have been better to wait at least a couple of weeks.
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If anyone's interested PlayStation Access is streaming PS5 games for several hours in one long stream. Currently playing Sack Boy but going to do most launch games.
Also, the new web store will sometimes link me to Malaysia's web store even though I'm logged into my US account. It doesn't do that in the old web store.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I did all the prep work, and so far no dice. The Best Buy site had been showing “Coming Soon” or some such verbiage on the button that would typically be the purchase button all morning, and I just checked again and it now says “Sold Out”, so I guess I missed my 2 minute window of opportunity there. Wal-Mart will be interesting because they have the 4 actual log in times when the units go live for purchase, so at least I can just start spamming the refresh button at the allotted time instead of stalking all day. I hope you’re right about the stock improving in a couple weeks. Jim Ryan is assuring us good availability, but I have my doubts after the debacle going on now.
The game publishers have gotta be pressuring Sony to get these units out there and sold. The more PS5’s out in the wild, the more games will be sold. I’m not buying PS5 games without a console.
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Well, just made it past the first of the four Wal-Mart check points. Was refreshing the app every few seconds leading up to 12:00 and then, it started lagging and taking a long time loading at the hour as certainly countless thousands of people like me were crashing the digital marketplace for a chance at one of the launch consoles. After a series of refreshes and lags, the PS5 item screen came up with an “add to cart” option for me! So I quickly added it and then after picking my jaw up off the floor momentarily, I clicked “check out” ..... and then reality struck. Several lags later the message finally came back saying “sorry but the item in your cart is sold out”. The clock said 12:07 by then.
It did put the PS5 in the “items to be saved for later” and kept it in my cart, so I guess the question is whether to just go straight to the saved item page when the next supply is released at 3:00 or to start from scratch at the item page. I think I’ll try going in from the “saved items” approach and see if that gives me a slight millisecond head start or even perhaps a higher priority in the queue on the next go-around.
Got my games in and both Spider-man Miles Morales and Demon's Souls have nice reversible covers! Only a week to go till I can play them. Enjoy your new PS5 's for those of you who are lucky enough to have one already.
Hey, this is interesting, when you sort your library, there’s a PS3 option, but nothing shows up I’d you click on it. I wonder if they’re planing something?
@Jaz007 I have a feeling that's meant for PlayStation Now titles since they have a catalog of PS3 games on there
I don't doubt that if there's enough fan demand Sony might actually consider re-releasing PS1-3 games digitally either though, since they'd probably want to compete with Xbox's insane BC program that encompasses all their previous consoles
@Th3solution Yep been there many times. This is your life until you get one. Both times I got one I was just checking randomly at times I thought would be a bit quieter - 6pm and 1230am.
Sony did say that there would be 11 million consoles available so I don't think there will be any shortages in the long run. You just avoid the mad rush if you leave it a couple of weeks. Do you really need or want one now? You've always said previously that you would be waiting.
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Thanks. I guess part of my interest today is that at least I know some stock is available today. Beyond today, I think it’s just going to be hit-or-miss at each retailer and it might be hard to even know what the availability from day to day without stalking the storefronts. It would be nice if retailers just let you get on a waiting list and then just let me know when my turn comes up. I’m not sure why they don’t do that. So part of grabbing one now is to save myself time and trouble later over the next several weeks.
Pre-orders were the same chaos of first come first served and the rest are out of luck. I’m not sure why places like Amazon or Best Buy don’t have queues where you put down a 10% deposit to keep your name on a list and then in a few weeks (or even a month or two) your name comes up and you get a call that they have one for you.
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@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, I was planning to wait and “let it come to me” as far as just buying one when it was easy to do so. But the hype is real!
And honestly, it won’t kill me to wait. But I’m having flashbacks of having an itch to get a Nintendo Switch a few months ago and literally not being able to find one anywhere. I finally gave up and figured Nintendo didn’t want my hundreds of dollars I was planning to spend on the unit and a few games.
I seriously doubt Sony is going to play the Nintendo shortage game, but it just makes me a little more motivated to just buy one and get it out of the way just in case the supply chain isn’t as generous as they Jim Ryan is touting it will be.
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@Th3solution This is a bit different to the Switch as I thought that was production of the console was halted due to covid wasn't it? Sony are making loads of consoles available to the retailers because, you know, they are launching a new console. The problem that we have now is everyone this snapping up the stock that the retailers have extremely quickly. That should calm down eventually.
@JohnnyShoulder I mean the Switch was even in a similar situation in summer 2017
I got mine around then and during that time you had to go through so much hassle and hurdles just to be able to have a chance of getting one. I expect PS5 will probably be no different in the long term.
@JohnnyShoulder Yeah you’re right. I just tried again at the 3:00 release and it was the same story. By 7 minutes past the hour the stock was gone and closest I got was having one in my cart.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@TheFrenchiestFry I'm not saying it will never ever go out of stock. Just that there is no harm in holding off for a couple of weeks or so.
@Th3solution In the UK some sites would randomly put stock up with out announcing it, to get one over scaplers. By announcing a time in advance they play into hands of scaplers, us normal folk do not stand chance most of the time. That is how I got mine, by checking at random times when i thought there would be less traffic.
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@JohnnyShoulder That’s pretty smart of you. I’ll try that over the next few weeks and just do random checks. Is one of yours for your dad? Surely he’s hyped to be able to play Cyberpunk in all it’s ray traced 4K glory. 😄
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