PlayStation 5’s launch today has brought a number of UK retailers to their knees, with many scrambling to fulfil deliveries and keep their websites online. A fresh rollout of PS5 stock today temporarily slowed John Lewis’ website to a crawl, while Currys PC World’s cancelled its restock plans after a system error prompted the platform to become available early.
“There have been extremely high levels of demand for our website this morning and we are experiencing some technical issues,” John Lewis said. “Our teams are working hard to get the site running smoothly again as soon as possible. We apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.”
Meanwhile, GAME has warned that not all consoles will be delivered today, after it offloaded a number of deliveries to Yodel in order to meet the demand. Sony’s said that it’s trying to make as many systems available as possible in order to ensure everyone who wants a system can get one, but stock is likely to be scarce well into the new year and beyond.
[source theguardian.com]
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General consensus amongst retailers regarding launch availability.
@Asymmetric13 Accurate!
'New Year and Beyond'
Well if this wait in the GAME queue fails (which I suspect it will) i am boned. Good think I have PS4 backlog
Managed to order one from EE no hassle what so ever. Latest I get it is 15th December but hopefully sooner.
Tried bunch other sites beforehand they was all a disaster
What a cluster this has been.
Still waiting on my Amazon delivery today. A prime van turned up before but it was just an SD card. Trolling.
Amazon shipped mine. I've been tracking it via Royal Mail. I'm not expecting to receive it here until Monday - Wednesday next week.
@Robinsad Still waiting on my Amazon delivery too. Estimated delivery time keeps crawling later and later every time it gets close just to wind me up.
Some how I with a lot of luck I ordered from Amazon UK about 13:00 for delivery tomorrow
Fingers crossed. Disc Version.
Got my digital edition from Amazon delivered earlier, driver left it by door and drove away so I'll file for a refund on that by claiming I never received it.
To make the day even better I managed to then grab a disc console right after they went live on Amazon just after 1pm for delivery on Sunday, which I will drop in to cex for £150 profit.
Courier should have followed procedure and got a signature or photo as per delivery notification, and people shouldn't be willing to pay cex so much to buy them. No apologies from me. Just a free digital edition PS5 and £150 to spend on games for it.
PS off to set up my digital edition now and won't be returning to this thread or account so post what replies you want because I won't be reading them haha
@StonyKL To be fair, thats why i didnt book today off.
Mine is stuck in Birmingham somewhere. DPD are useless. They actually told me it would be delivered yesterday. Doesn’t help that simply games are being zero help.
@GamingFiend knob.
@Boucho11 thats putting it politely
@Danloaded it’s all I could put in without words being cancelled. I hear ya though brother
@Boucho11 true dude. I just wasted over an hour on game to be told its out of stock and you have people like him who got an initial preorder, scammed the company he bought it from (who probably left it on the doorstep due to the pandemic) and got another one today. He can truly go fornicate himself
Could you imagine if a restaurant did this, selling stuff they don't have and telling paying customers to wait a day to a few weeks, for it to arrive. Don't know why its acceptable for retailers. To raise internet traffic and clicks, all anyone would have to say is "in stock 5pm, tomorrow" whether it's true or not.
@Danloaded Probably gonna get a dude fired in the process as well. Why would he care though, he got £500 out of it, so f*** everyone else right?
@GamingFiend cool story, dude. Glad to know you made an account, recently, just to tell us. How about one where you find out your parents didn't die, only faked their death, cause of you, the disappointment.
@GamingFiend
Can’t say I wouldn’t be tempted to do over Amazon given how they treat the SME I work for, not to mention the country, but ordering the second to send it to CEX to rack up the profit? £150 doesn’t mean enough to me to feel that crappy about myself.
Yodel say it’s still at the depot and expected delivery tomorrow.
We're sorry your package is running late
We're working to get your package back on track, and we'll let you know when your package is out for delivery.
Please come back Sunday if you still don't have it and we'll help you out.
Was expected today
Amazon came at 10am this morning. Already got the Astro platinum. Tbh I got lucky because Amazon always come late for me.
Git mine today from Game, delivered by DHL. I hope you all get yours, these nothing quite like a new console launch!
Received mine from Parcel Force about midday.It wasn't until near tea time before I got to try it though as I spent hours round the back of the tv trying to rearrange and sort out cables for the Ps4,PSVR and Switch..
Worth the effort though!
personally speaking, NO issues w/me thru Amazon UK.18th late afternoon they took/was pending £449 - for console from my bank.received email 18th late afternoon saying it was confirmed for 19th.Amazon tracker on 19th showed it arrived 02:00'ish at my depot hub, 05:00'ish prestaged for a van. Out for delivery // tracker update 09-ish. Knock on my door 12:05, very satisfied.i understand many peeps had difficulties, just felt like confirming that 'good news' never makes the news. Thx for reading
@GamingFiend May the blue light of death be with you
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