PS5 Is Breaking Pre-Order Records at Some Retailers

It’s almost as if scalpers buying up stock at a rapid pace would break records.

where can i find a collection of pics of all these angles of the console?

Lucked out last night. Walmart had preorders open up at 9pm. Right at 9 the system crashed and they were sold out when it went up again at 9:05 so naturally and I gave up. Around 9:45 I was like “I’ll give it one more try” and sure enough right when I hit refresh it was available and I put it right in my cart and checked out. Thank you video game gods.

I got mine through Very, it's where I'll be getting the majority of my physical games too.

Hope folks that want one can get their hands on an rrp console and those scalpers get stuck with their stock!! Unlikely though 🙄

@nessisonett Yeah but scalpers are a constant part of any preordering. There were scalpers for the PS4, XB1, all gig tickets, all sporting events etc. The amount of scalper purchases is obviously linked to the demand for the item. If I release my indie crossover of Bubsy and James Pond*, I don't think it'll break any pre-order records, scalpers or not.

*Fortunately this is not a real thing.

For any German Reader here Amazon Germany said in an statment that preorders are soon available again!

https://playfront.de/ps5-vorbestellung-in-kuerze-wieder-moeglich/?amp

Doesn't this depend on how many consoles are available in the first place? If they're selling out fast because stock is limited, then it doesn't tell you much. I know rumours said they were producing 10 million units for launch, but is that day one? Launch window? And there was another rumour about scaling down the available units because of some manufacturing issue. Either way, they're difficult to find, that's for certain.

@nessisonett
Scalpers were not ready at first. It was genuine demand.
People getting their xbox will need be real fast even if the demand maybe lower than ps5.
Scalper bots will be ready for it

@Octane 11 Million until end of Q1 2021 and at launch more than the PS4 when it released. And the rumor was officially denied by Sony and AMD

@IonMagus Do we have an official source for that?

I am having an absolute nightmare with Game UK. I got an order in, but couldn't make an account so all I have is a screen shot with my order number. I have not received any confirmation or got any replies from them at all. I have ordered from Amazon too and just want to cancel my order with Game now as they seem to be completely incompetent, but I can't even do that because there is no way to speak to anyone about my order.

I think there might be a lot of people in a similar situation as me as well as others who have made multiple pre-orders to be sure of getting one, so I'd take these pre-order 'records' with a truck full of salt.

@Octane yes

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/playstation-ceo-confirms-more-ps5-units-will-be-available-at-launch-than-ps4-2756075%3famp

That's cool and all, but where's MY PS5?

@IonMagus
They said more but the 11m number is BS

@JJ2 Nope, only that they lowered the numbers since mass production

Congrats!

I am sure there will be plenty of systems in stock in the February/March time frame when I start looking to upgrade my systems.

Demon's Souls is the only "must have" on my radar, but it's not a rush out and pre-order thing. I have no problems waiting to make sure there are no glaring hardware issues to address.

I'll probably put Spider-Man Miles Morales (PS4 version) on my Christmas list this year.

@IonMagus
All numbers provided by Mochizuki were BS

@Old-Red as you got the email confirmation you be fine,
you can attach it to your account at a later date. they had issue with login

Why are people calling it a mess? Wouldn't a fixed date and time give scalpers and bots even more time to prepare and pull the rug off of everyone's feet?

An unscheduled pre-order dropping out of nowhere like that and still selling out in minutes every where speaks volumes about the demand.

If even with all the scheduling, Microsoft's hardware doesn't sell out, you draw the conclusions.

i got mine from GAme at 11:55 on Wednesday !

@IonMagus
'While we do not release details related to manufacturing, the information provided by Bloomberg is false," Sony says. "We have not changed the production number for PlayStation 5 since the start of mass production."

Remember these 'oh Sony double the production blah blah

Think

@DotM You can watch the final minutes of the last event. The camera goes around it once and you can see everything.

My dad pre-ordered PS5 for me today, i should get it on the release day or this Xmas. But hearing it's breaking pre-order records makes me thankful that i'm becoming a PS5 owner soon.

I get that they sold out for launch day. Shouldn’t you be able to pre-order a PS5 for later delivery. That’s what I did with my PS4.

Got mine preordered, was going to get digital but there were none so standard it was. Can’t wait for the 12th of November! I’ll be playing Demon Souls! 😁😁

As soon as i found out about pre orders going live. which was just after watching the amazing ps5 event. I went straight over to Game UK and put in for the disc version. i was messing about at first trying to put it through my elite account which i couldn't, gave up and pre ordered as a guest. Luckily enough i bagged the per order. the End, few Hope you genuine playstation fans get yours too

Glad I got my Pre-Order sorted. Got a Digital version from Amazon the second they went live in the UK yesterday, going to buy Cyberpunk, Miles Morales, FIFA 21 and a 3D Pulse Headset to go alongside it for launch!

@Fred_Red I didn't get an email form them at all.

@KathyQ No number to call, just an online ticket system as far as I can see.

Breaking records, is that what its called now.

@harchibald
Same. I gave up on Games and decided to wait on Amazon.uk in the morning at 9 and it worked fortunately.

Who gives a crap if your average non-bot can't buy one with ease? This preorder is a train wreck sadly.

I'm still waiting to get mine in. Received an email from Walmart that they were back in stock, but by the time I checked my email an hour had passed and they were all out again. If I get one, I get one. If not, I'll get one when I can. No worries.

Yeah I got one yesterday via Amazon, but missed out on John Lewis today (my preferred retailer because of their customer service, would have cancelled Amazon) I managed to get one in my basket, but by the time the checkout page loaded it was out of stock, at 12:05. Apparently they opened pre-order at 11:55, so about 10 min there too.

Still waiting for the preorder to open on my country, I hope I can get it on launch.

@sabaki08 You make some very good points but it is a sh*t show due to the fact that retailers are going live before they state they will meaning people are missing out especially when they go live throughout the night. I agree it is most likely a higher percentage of proper customers instead of scalpers and that is a plus but the timings have been all over the show! Not necessarily Sony's fault more retailers not keeping to their timings I suspect.

@East76landS that is what I did. Totally forgot about it, then a mate mentioned it on Very, got it ordered about 7.50am and lo and behold, got me a physical disc version

@brettyboy01

What do you call it?

@Synthatron_Prime In what way is it a train wreck? Because they allowed pre orders without prior knowledge and you missed out?

@Crazybuttocks198 I was about 20 minutes ahead of you, lol.

@SirRealDeal until I see numbers, I'll be calling it a farce

Got my Pulse headset pre-ordered, now I need to find a PS5 to go with it!!

I was just about lucky to be able to order one this morning in the UK around 7.45am with Argos, I told my friend who tried to order one 5 minutes later and they had ran out of stock. He did however get hold of one with a small local retailer mid-morning so both happy bunnies now .

I'm really not sure what peoples issue is with them releasing the pre orders without announcing it first. It prevents a massive influx of online traffic to one or two websites. I can only imagine the chaos if they had announced that all retailers would be allowing pre orders from 9am, most websites would not have been able to cope with it (Game & Argos especially) and they would've sold out within minutes or the websites would have crashed.

@Old-Red I presume you put your email in, download the game app , create a new user using that same email, it shows you your preorders.

Biggest gaming retailer in my country opened preorders today at 14:00 for wide audience (before that it was available only for those who 'showed interest' before). Few minutes after that it was over. Everyone who managed to place an order and pay for it in advance is guaranteed to get it on launch day according to info on their facebook. Luckily I am one of those people, yay! Cancelling other uncertain preorders.

And looks like that's it, every single shop here is either does not guarantee 2020 delivery or states 02/2021 release.

@chadster81 Yeah, you'd think, but no. It'll get sorted in the end, really I'm just baffled how their service can be so bad. I also don't want to hold up a pre-order for someone who really wants one. Seeing PS5 pre-orders going for £700+ on ebay makes me feel ill.

I'd be lying if I wasn't tempted to sell one of the orders myself though. Who would pay that much for a pre-order? I'm sure there will be another round of orders before November.

@HMazzy111 Yeah. After promising advance notice would be given and then saying preorders would start the following day but they didn't. It wasn't well organized. I'll live but the handling of it was disappointing.

@Kefka2589 I see what you're saying but that hasn't been an issue with Microsoft. What did they do to maintain control that Sony didn't? I can't fully blame Sony, you're correct. But I feel because Sony was so wishy-washy with information it caused this avalanche. And I assume you got one and that's why you don't care? Lucky if so.

Been looking everywhere for one but seem to be too late. Seems like sold out everywhere in the uk

@Old-Red yeah I got mine from game in branch, but thought I'd chance getting another one but karma bit me in the arse and I got charged £450 out of my PayPal but the order didn't go through grrrrr

I have to hope when someone does a second wave that I get one even if it's not at launch. What dibocle this was. Instead of just waiting a few hours at GameStop to preoder like do every system now I'm scrambling caused neither my best buy or Amazon orders would ever leave cart to finish. Such a bad play by Sony.

@TheNewButler you make good points. But at least knowing when to get in line will help me get an Xbox. My life is too hectic to be randomly checking shops all the time.

@sabaki08 This exactly. This is what happened with Nvidia online store yesterday for the 3080. Bots were set up and configured and cards sold in 1.5 seconds. Other websites were also a nightmare. Sony’s approach at least gave more fans a chance to buy

Just wanted to at that Very seem to be putting orders up on the hour. I managed to get a ps5 with extra controller just after 2pm.

does that include someone selling one from a currys store on ebay starting bid 600 quid what a joke.

@rjc-32 one of those cards is bring bidded on ebay over 60 grand.

A buddy of mine and his wife were able to procure 2 consoles from Best Buy. I get a 10% discount from Walmart so I'm waiting for my 2 consoles from there. I'm at work right now just refreshing the page trying to get mine lol.

@Kefka2589 Agreed. I'm hoping it works in my favor, lol.

If Sony set a specific time for preorders to go live like MS is doing this would've been way worse, it's a good thing that retailers said f*** it and decide to start taking preorders sporadically.

@hoffa007 They aren't genuine bids. People are creating spoof ebay accounts specifically to screw over the scalpers by bidding ridiculous amounts with no intention of paying.

@Kefka2589 Thanks! I'd love both but I'll settle for at least one this year!

@Amin1998 you could try Very, I mean I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole, but there's a chance there

https://www.stockinformer.co.uk/checker-ps5-playstation-5-console

@Old-Red Use GAMEs live chat feature, just checked and it is Live, you may have to wait ten minutes in a queue but you'll get through to someone.

@East76landS just about got mine through Very as well! 15-20 mins later they were all sold out. Absolute madness lol. Glad you were able to pick one up as well!

@rjc-32 tbf that makes sense tbh, good idea.

I got mines preordered the night of the Sony event roll on the 19th of November

I managed to order mine on amazon at around 9.15am on Thursday, it was sold out minutes later, was worried I wouldn't get one and game was a nightmare, telling you that you had to pre order instore

@Octane Sony already shut down that manufacturing rumour as BS

@Synthatron_Prime There is a difference between not caring and putting the blame where it belongs.

This kind of thing happens constantly. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, none of them have direct control over the street date or when something goes on pre-order. In fact there have been pre-orders for the PS5 for weeks at various other retailers (just without an official price or date, or stock count).

The best Sony can do is threaten and "punish" offenders, like they (try to) do when street dates are broken; but when everyone jumps at the same time in a mad panic rush to follow Walmart, they can't really do much.

@KathyQ Wow, you was on the ball to get two pre orders, nice one I'm personally gonna stick with "game uk" and hopefully after sending them an email, they might add it to my account for some juicy points I was able to put pre orders for spiderman and demon souls through my account thou so. Happy days

@nessisonett currently about 1100 for sale on ebay at inflated prices

@MarcG420 i have to wait til 19th BOOO!

@JJ2 Well done my friend, it was a bit of a rush, ah. My other two friends were not so lucky and are still trying different companies like Amazon and Argos but they still couldn't get one. Although they wanted the digital version which seem to be flying out the door." The Worlds Gone Mad"!!!!!" Geeeezzzz

Woop woop, just had my preorder confirmed by shopto, was pooping my panties as registered interest in early July and it was showing as sold out all day yesterday.......DAY ONE BAAAAAABY!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

@Old-Red Heres the customer service email for Game in Uk
https://ceoemail.com/s.php?id=c-9053&c=GAME%20Group%20PLC%20Customer%20Service%20email%20address
That website is invaluable for companies removing contact details from their websites, Hope you get it sorted!

@Rob_230 Oooof, that’s a lot of cash!

@theheadofabroom Just managed to bag one at very. Hope the order comes through. Heard some retailers were cancelling orders. Ordered from very a few times and never had a problem with them.

@gmxs @severeatrophy Thanks, I just got the confirmation email so I do have two pre-orders now. I can't find the live chat on the site, maybe I'm being stupid, but I can't see it anywhere. I've sent them a second message asking how to cancel my order.

Luckily here in the uk smyths we’re selling them just before midnight and I managed to get one check a few mins later n they were sold out it’s absolutely insane. Xbox better be ready

@crazykcarter They are producing a lot of units, and I would be surprised if the entire launch stock has already been allocated. My guess is that they will continue to update those allocations as they get more units produced, or have a clearer picture on how many they will have by launch day (don't count your chickens before they hatch and all).

I fully expect a decent amount of pre-orders to go up over the next two months. Make use of sites like nowinstock to give you updates when major retailers get stock, and keep at it. People will cancel pre-orders, many have pre-ordered in multiple locations and will eventually cancel all but the one they are actually going to get, etc...

I would be very cautious of the "keep hitting refresh" or "keep trying to checkout" successes, because while many may be legit, many more may have just gotten an order through a crack in their system (inaccurate cached data used instead of live data during high traffic times, for example) and they might not get stock to fulfill those orders.

@bremkat34 I honestly feel bad for anyone in a region releasing on the 19th.

@Marquez you're real early in the queue then!! Fingers crossed u get one, not convinced I will be day 1 now 🤣🙄😭🙈🤞

Pre-ordered for launch day from Simply where I registered interest a while ago, only had bundles but one of them matched exactly what I wanted so all good. Have now booked the day off work to sit in the window waiting for the courier.

@nessisonett definitely

eBay needs to come down on these scalpers, its ridiculous to charge the prices i have seen

I preordered me a digital edition ps5 from the bestbuy website on my phone Thursday morning after many fail attempts to preorder one for a hour because the bestbuy site kept crashing. I’m so glad I was lucky enough to be able to secure me one before bestbuy sold out.

Luckly Argos.co.uk started pre orders this morning at 5.30am 😮 got the disk version by 5.41am and they sold out by 6.30am. I hate this part of every console launch 😬

@Arugula I luckily got my pre-order from Target yesterday, and you could only add one to your cart.

@sabaki08 Not necessarily. It's possible though. OTOH, with the way this worked out, the serious customers were told by Sony it would be a day after and stopped paying attention for that day. We didn't plan around it and had things to do, so we'd find out about each site going live 15-30 minutes after it did and was sold out. The scalpers bots were likely already there refreshing 100 times a second "just in case." At least with a fixed time and plenty of warning, the customers and bots are there at the same time. But you're right, it could also be worse.

I still wonder if there's separate inventory set aside for MS for XAA. I've been thinking that's going to be a disaster - credit applications while trying to buy things that sell out in 3 minutes don't mix. OTOH, if it's separate inventory, that's going to be a scalper-proof channel....going through a credit check isn't going to work for actual bulk buying scalpers (doesn't stop people buying one now to flip it, but it locks them from scoring tons of them with fake accounts.)

@JJ2 You really think scalper bots weren't ready for this? In the US there's essentially only 6 online retailers for this. I don't think it was too hard for scalpers to get their bots ready for the time of the PS stream and automatically monitor the pages. Most of those stores have standardized product pages and had placeholder pages up. Not to mention the opportunist scalpers that get one now to flip at high price, and then buy their own later when inventory stabilizes in 2021 that are normal "buyers" but not actual customers.

@HMazzy111 It's the other way around, unfortunately. With only one retailer going up at a time, the internet (or the retailer itself!) would tweet on twitter they're up. The people monitoring twitter would relay it to other people and on other sites, and then the ENTIRE PS fanbase would all descend on that one site, the only PS5 vendor at the moment, all at once, taking the site down, like a big flash mob. If they all opened at once, that traffic would have been split between multiple sites rather than all PS fandom descending like a plague of locusts on one site a a time until it died.

Still super worried about the XBox orders. These companies, next time, really, really, really need to think of a more rational way of doing this. Even if it's just a randomly drawn lottery from among signups or something like the way Amazon used to do their Black Friday deals before they had thousands of non-deals for 6 weeks. This scalper-driven race to the cart button is insanity, it's crashing retailers systems, and it's maddening, if somewhat exhilarating, for customers.

Yes I managed to pre order the digital one I will be cancelling it the moment I secure a disc one. Roll on Tuesday for the same nightmare with xbox but im getting the digital xbox so should be slightly easier to secure.

There seem to be folks on here worried about there game confirmation email (I was too). I ordered midnight of the showcase and I’ve just got my email (over 36 hrs later). If you have your order number I’m pretty sure you’ll get your email, it’s just taking longer. Good luck..!

Luckily I managed to get one from Amazon and then one came through from shopto. Which was quite lucky as a mate couldn't get one! eBay is already rife with scalpers.

@NEStalgia I don't think scalpers care about scalping Xbox, because it's not expected to sell out like the PS5 was, especially after the, although false, rumours Sony is making less stock due to COVID. No one's worrying about that with the Xbox.

NO I would like to get a PlayStation 5 but he keeps selling out faster than I can flip it I hope they'll be more soon more in October I hope they'll be more I can get I don't even have one I need to get one I've been trying for a while now I have the money to buy a PlayStation. 5 I just hope I can get one soon so yes I do want one really bad

Bagged my pre order! Roll on midnight store opening instead of relying on a delivery man throwing it about....

outside of the enthusiast circle, i am not sure how well such an expensive console is going to sell to the mainstream market going forward next year. i think sony and microsoft are over estimating here at the current price point. the lack of exciting next gen software is not going to help in 2021 either seeing as ps4 will likely get god of war in addition to horizon.

@Old-Red same mine was as guest to and I didn't think mine had gone through but I got a confirmation from game this afternoon that it was successful, only took them a day an half.

Yeah the frustrating thing is that not everyone was just sitting around on social media. A lot of us have busy lives and were told one thing and wake up to them being sold out everywhere. I didn't even get a chance to add an item to a cart and be sold out etc. I literally woke up to the news that they are sold out literally everywhere. Its not the end of the world but the past week Sony has left a sour taste in my mouth from all their omissions.

Got another preordered with the Sony direct email, my God what a simple process! Much less stressful than Wednesday!!

@sabaki08 I would love it more than anything if you're right! So at least you offer possibly false hope. But... They've created a lot of buzz with their low cost console that's competing dollar for dollar with the phenomenally selling and impossible to keep in stock Switch (and can play many of the games shown in Sony's events as well), and while the X is going to be much less in demand overall for the generation than S, they're also no doubt making far less of them, and the day one pre-order crowd is going to be us, the hardcore gamers that are going to be more interested in X than S.

Worse, the buzz of the disaster that was PS5 preorders is almost certain to have a spillover effect on XBox preorders, either by customers who couldn't get a PS5 and decided to be more aggressive trying to secure an XB, or scalpers riding the "new consoles are impossible to get" train. I'm not sure if it's going to be better or worse than PS5 preorder was, but I think it's going to be mighty ugly either way. I'm dreading it, TBH. Wednesday was stressful enough for the year! If preorders are actually available for more than 10 minutes without websites crashing, I'll be happy. If it's up for an hour I'll be ecstatic. PS5 was like "8 minutes, and you've missed it."

Playstation has the PS4 momentum driving its preorders into overdrive. But I suspect with console demand up in general, and with how hard PS5s are to secure is going to drive XBox preorders into similar overdrive, even if not quite as extreme as what PS saw. Either console is probably scalper's paradise.

Internet: I can't find a PS5 anywhere!
Internet again: I got one and can't tell if I really got one or not.
@redd214 : Where am I even going to put all of these PS5's, they're huge!?

I really wonder what criteria they selected on. I had 2 PSNs in the house signed up, and nada. One is more active than the other, but I have a sizable digital PS4 library, was a Spidey preorder (complete with the collectors pin), and even bought Nioh 2 and FF7R in the past 6 weeks or so on the Plus sales, so it's an active enough account even if I haven't been playing on it much in 2020. No idea what their unknown criteria must be!

Have mine, And my cousin got one in Spain (finally) but zero luck trying to get a 2nd for my brother.

I think the only ones having a harder time are the people looking for a 3080.

$500 and $700 gaming hardware selling out simultaneously. Next gen is here 😉😀

@NEStalgia not even only 2 are staying lol. I just don't trust these retailers, may as well play it safe! Did finally find a temporary stand I can use for these monoliths. Hopefully get a build in constructed sometime next year.

@Kefka2589 yeah I went Walmart, Target, Amazon, then PS direct. Though I literally just got an email from Amazon saying my order from them may not make it launch day ughh. As long as 2 or the 4 hold I'll be good

@redd214 I hear that. I keep logging in to make sure my order is still there. Weird, it shows I have no order history or recent orders, but the "recent activity" list has the PS5 lines plus Mario 35 (delivered today.) Mana from April isn't showing (nor the many many older orders.) The cart is in a sketchy condition. But at least it's showing the PS!

@Rossif3r Yeah the whole way they did the email thing is a disaster. IMO they should have not sold any preorders through retailers, kept the whole preorder inventory for the PSN ID check and gone that way with direct sales only. Sure, retailers would have been ticked, but they're getting cut out of the game sales loop in time anyway, and you know they'd still clambor for their November floor display shipment of the hot item.

Kotaku has a great article up on this debacle featuring a title I can't paste here. Apparently, somehow, for reasons I don't understand, the whole bot scalping thing started with sneakers, and it's largely the same groups doing this. Many of those have apparently resorted to the lottery system as well. You can never thwart the bots. Buying should require 2FA.

Amazon's a joke for preordering anything. They always defer it. GS is a joke, online, too. But they're also the fasted to buy. For XB, I intend to try to get a fast order from the Amazon app, then one from somewhere else to secure it, THEN try the XAA one which seems most sketchy. If that one goes through I can cancel Amazon which I don't trust.

Why are these companies still using this idiotic system for releases, I'll never know.

I remember fondly my excitement for versions 2, 3 and 4, but somehow 5 is just not doing it for me.

Dare I say it, but the 500 notes will be better spent on PC upgrades.

@Triplexbee Honestly I think it's lacking E3 buildup. Not just from the COVID-cancelled 2020 E3, but the lack of Sony at E3 for years now, and the lack of the direct competition and minute to minute reactionary marketing and tit for tat between Sony and competitors (be it MS or Sega and Nintendo) make it fall flat, having only slick corporate presentations and tweets to go on. That stuff was exciting and made the build up to release this sort of personal involvement experience.

Sony vanished into the mists to do their own thing 2 years ago and it's not the same. For the past 2 years of PS4 I barely noticed my PS existed and my focus was all Nintendo and XBox. They kind of dropped off my radar. It doesn't affect the broad market interest, but for the core gamers that follow this stuff, the magic we're used to isn't there this time. I really i didn't care much about the new gen at all, either. Everything was ho-hum until MS dropped the S and we could start seeing "Project Nimble" (Project Copycat) wheels grinding and things started getting some sense of hype again. That's the only way the spark got reignited. But I daresay if I were Sony-only, I would be less excited for this launch than I am being multiplat. Sony's own hype machine ran out of gas a while ago, and it's watching the two of them somewhat barely one up each other that's brought a sense of hype back for me. But some of that is the result of the whole last gen. Sony won by default, having no real competitors at all, and that real excitement of Sony trying hard in 2014 waned once they didn't need to.

MS really reinvigorated some excitement, and I think post-launch, Sony's going to remember what having competitors is like and have to work the old magic again, as well. Though I'm not sure Ryan and Kodera are the people to work...well, any magic at all, unless making up half statements counts as magic. Last time we had Tretton and Hirai, and a more hands-on Yoshida.

I ended up getting The PS5, PS5 head phones, and PS5 charging station.

But not with out a lot of work and fustration with downright depression. Soon after the live show I find out Walmart is taking pre-orders. I rush to order between Best Buy, Target, Amazon, and Walmart. Between them I got from nothing showing about PS5 to in my cart and cant get to check out page. I brought up each store in a window tab on my PC and cycled between them one to the next trying to get a pre-order. With responses like nothing about pre-order, sold out, or crashed web page and can not check out. My wife also jumped on her PC to try also several times for 30 minutes or so at a time. I continued to check in order each page for 11 hours after the show till 3:48AM that when Best Buy's site came alive and allowed me to check out.

I was NOT happy and it was in no way fun at the time. But thinking about it now that I got my pre-order I don't feel the same. This is part of the madness of getting that special Item you want so badly. It will become a happy memory of how I got to victory.
I can still see the running into stores on black Fridays for Cabbage Patch dolls for my kids long ago in my mind. There has also been many other sale Items and Christmas Barbies in short supply I have did the same for long before there was a online ordering.

If you did not get a pre-order in all is not lost. Most store still do not know what their full allocation will be at this point. Some will have stock they will not sale online. Scalpers will want to return any unsold items for refund within the 30day limit from purchase.

@East76landS me too, I recently got a 15% off code and luckily enough they let me use it on my Disc PS5 so it was only £382.50.
I've been waiting to order my games on there, three was only Fortnite and NBA2K21 on there when I ordered my PS5.

Gotta play that sweet Demon's Souls and Spider-Man Miles Morales on the 19th.
I also know my order went through properly as I got an email with the full information, along with my Pre-Order for the Mafia Trilogy and I ordered a copy of 3D Mario All Stars, which arrived at my collection place today.
There was still stock of both models when I timed out and the website was very stable.
Think I went away from the site about 10 minutes after I'd put my order through, checked when I came back and one had sold out, a few minutes later they were done and over 22,000 people were looking at them, hundreds had been sold when I started looking, god knows how many Very were allocated and sold through.

Let's just hope Sony can fulfill the stock promise for all these companies as I've heard rumours that some may fall short.

How's Xbox doing? 😂

I think Spiderman and Demon's Souls at launch is going to make it sell out pretty instantly. Best launch line-up I can remember, especially if you like Souls-type games.

@NEStalgia Sony don't need to try hard. Just to release a great console with even better exclusives. That's what should matter in the end. Not hype and all that nonsense that doesn't effect one's enjoyment after it's gone.

You want to know where all the pre orders are there on ebay the scum bags have basically bought them all

I never had this trouble when I got my Gamecube...

I can’t help myself! I’ve now also ordered the pulse 3D headset. I need to chop my credit card up 😂

For anyone in UK, Hughes.co.uk has DE Still available. For now.
I cant tell you how good a retailer they are, as I've never used them, but the option is there.

I'm still invested in the PS4 games and in no rush for ps5. The madness this is causing for a launch console. I'm just sitting back relaxing reading these articles and waiting for ps5 slim or pro in the next 2 or 3 years.

@naruball All companies need to try hard unless there's no competition. PS4 had competition in 2013 that exposed massive weaknesses. Sony tried hard early, and the payoff was huge. Sony has grown isolated and complacent since then without competition. They've done that before during ps2 into ps3. Microsoft did it during 360 into one. Hardcore fans that hang out on sites like this buy regardless because we know what we want. But we're not they're money source. The reality is whether everyone here bought everything they made, or boycotted them and bought nothing, it wouldn't even be a line item worth mentioning at a board meeting. We're such a tiny percentage of their sales, we really don't exist to them. We matter at launch to get word of mouth moving, but beyond that, were invisible, spendy or not. So here people can feel like any price is justifiable for getting a particular game experience, but the real revenue from the mass market doesn't really follow that pattern.

Sony's at a price disadvantage here. Ps1, ps2, ps4 owned the market as the price leader. Ps3 was the only time they had arrogant pricing and didn't lead the market as the cost leader. And the console limped for years in distant third. If they're not trying hard today, i expect they're going to have to try hard in a year or two. They recognize the market demands low cost, otherwise they wouldn't have a $399 model.

I have not yet, but it is enough time to grab it, so chill. Cannot wait to have it under my TV.

@severeatrophy Hughes have around for years and I've bought
appliances from them in the past. If you see one going there I'd grab it.

@HMazzy111 I'm with you on this but I can understand why people would be annoyed at the same time. The obvious benefit has been scalpers having less time to prepare. I think we would see more listing on ebay if it was announced ahead of time. Let's see how XSX preorder goes. Hopefully they don't have the same issue we did.

@KathyQ hi sorry for late reply! log in to your account on a web browser and see if is under orders if not there a contact customer service chat or phone number on their website

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