PS5 availability?
 

Anybody know what the situation is with PS5 backlogs finally easing up?

I finished a big project today and my company decided to reward me with a $500 Amazon gift card.

I want to use it to get a PS5, I just have no idea when they will have them and don't want to redeem my points and have them expire.

Good luck. I haven’t seen shit for stock and I haven’t heard anything about them being stocked anywhere as of yet.

https://bgr.com/2021/02/04/ps5-sold-...ny-shortages/#

Not looking likely

Same thing with the new Xbox's, as well.

Well I'm not in any hurry to buy one. My birthday isn't until August.

I just don't want my points to expire.

Got one at launch. Don't bother unless you want your PS4 games to load faster.

Yeah, I'm not really in any hurry to get one. Just wanting to know when the best time is to cash in my free money.

You're likely looking at Q3 of this year, maybe more realistically Q4 or Q1 of 2022 before they're massively available. Lots of issues with getting your hands on one - skyrocketed demand, shopping bots and scalpers, AMD chipset shortages, supply chain issues due to Covid-19, etc. It's rough out there. If you want to "play the game" and try to get your hands on one soonish, I recommend following @wario64 on Twitter. He's always the first to notify of distributor restock. But you have to be LIGHTNING fast at it - 2 minutes or less or you're basically ****ed. Hence "the game." It sucks.

My son is wanting to buy one with his allowance, grandmother aunt, and uncle's Xmas and birthday money. PS had a reservation system he waited on a week or so ago. He waited 2 hours and got a time countdown got to 11 minutes then got sorry consoles are sold out for this allotment but still had controllers and accessories available. Target had them a few days before online only they sold out in less than 5 minutes he said. Don't really know why he wants so bad I built him a nice gaming computer and he has touched the PS4 since.

If that happens, I'll just redeem my points and use them for groceries.

I won't be buying before August I don't think unless a miracle happens. I don't want to just buy one anywhere since I have free money at Amazon.

I've been holding on to quite a bit of gamestop gift card credit waiting for this. I'm beginning to wonder if gamestop will be in business when the ps5 is finally available to the masses.

Amazon gift cards don’t expire. Just load them to your account and use whenever.

Save till later. No point in buying either console right now.

I have a PS5, bought from Nebraska Furniture Mart's pre-order as everyone else was focusing on Best Buy, Walmart, Gamestop and Amazon. I've played it a good amount with Demons Souls, but haven't had time to soak into too many other games, like Spiderman Miles Morales or Fenyx Rising. Been too busy playing WoW: Shadowlands and raid progressing in Heroic. Really would like to play God of War again with the updated visuals and framerate, as well as the other improved titles from PS4 to PS5.

PS5 availability?
 

Well I don't have Amazon gift cards now do I ? LMAO

Went on sale again today 4 pm on PlayStation direct sold out at 4:22 PM. Son missed it again never got reservation time this time :D
https://direct.playstation.com/en...rdware/ps5

I get people are salty about availability, but Demons Souls is absolutely worth getting a PS5 for. It’s wildly fun if you’re into the souls/borne genre and the graphics are insanely good.

That said, just wait it out till Q3.

I foolishly walk by the case at Target/Best Buy/NFM/WalMart when I'm in the store. Lots of controllers to choose from!

They really should have held the release back until this winter

Best Buy had a huge drop this morning - the rub?

No shipping. There had to be available stock in your local store for pickup.

I would have had to drive to Palm Springs for one, and it's not worth it. Would have scored one easily if I still lived in STL.

my little brother got one directly from the playstation store... just arrived today.

he kept track via https://www.nowinstock.net/videogami...soles/sonyps5/

Buying from Sony direct seems to be the most straight forward. There’s a queue, and bots aren’t allowed since you have to have a PSN ID.

Yeah, I figured I'd wait a year or so until they've worked out the bugs on the launch model. There's usually something off about all launches and the second or third model out fix that.

I've got 6 more games in my queue before I move on anyway, possibly 7 if I decide to play New Dawn after Far Cry 5.

Damn, what are they?

AC Odyssey
Maneater
AC3 (Remaster)
The Witcher 3 (just need to finally finish it)
Monster Hunter World
God of War

Not sure I'd recommend New Dawn. Wasn't worth it at all IMO. It's basically a reskin of Far Cry 5 with little to no improvements in anything. It's the same exact map, just with lots of purple flowers over everything and it's now a nuclear apocalypse theme. The story is really weak. Felt like a blatant cash grab. I didn't even finish it, and I really like Far Cry 5. There's a reason it's less expensive than the other titles...

I still have to play Odyssey.

Odyssey is so good. I am trying hard to not let it Skyrim me though. Trying to stay on track so I can actually beat it.

Thanks for the heads up. I was wondering if the story would feel incomplete if I didn't play it. We'll see I guess. I'm probably a week away from finishing FC5.

Welp some people figured out you can hack a PS5 to mine crypto currency.

You won't be getting a PS5 for several years unless to crypto bubble bursts or you're willing to pay scalper prices.

Nah, it's fake, at least at the jumped up speeds everyone is reporting.

Much cheaper options

God of War is my favorite game of all time. Played it 5 times. Have you played the others?

I also have Monster hunter in my backlog, which has grown considerably since November.

Yeah, I've played all the previous installments of GOW, although from the looks of it, this one is radically different so not sure it matters.

They’re available again today at 3 PM EST on Walmart.com.

They'll last roughly 5 seconds.

Not even 5 seconds.

They had another batch at 2:10 just now.

And they were gone in the time it took me to refresh the page and click "add to cart".

Sheesh. Figured the botting would have at least slowed down by now.

It's crazy. They have them available every 10 minutes. I'm literally hitting the refresh button over and over and they're gone in the time it takes for the page to load.

How hard would it be for Walmart to add a captcha or something. I don't understand.

Got mine last night!

Here's the trick:
1. Follow @PS5StockAlerts on Twitter, and turn notifications on for your phone.
2. The midday alerts usually sell out super quick
3. They updated one at 2am last week for Sam's Club, of all places, and I was able to snag one since people were asleep, I think.

Pumped, going to play some Spider-Man tonight.

Walmart keeps dropping a batch every 10 minutes. They are gone before you can refresh the page

Someone claims to have a link that instantly adds it to your cart. Guessing people are spamming that.


Edit: it the comments of Wario64 Twitter account.

Insane

Walmart appears to have blocked that. I get an HTTP forbidden error.

They made buying one like playing a game. Every 10 minutes is a competition.

LOL

I just told my wife that exact thing.

She asked me why I was still trying and I was like "I can beat this game!" ROFL

Well, I think I'm done.

No hope left today.

I still got a few ps4 games to finish so I’m not desperate just yet. Lol.

Same here, it's just the thought. I've had some money to burn for a while and I don't need anything. ROFL

By the way, I switched to the app because it's faster. This time, it went from "available at 4pm eastern" to "available at 4:10pm eastern" without even giving the option to add to cart. They're literally selling out in a fraction of a second.

I’m honestly just going to wait until the stock is there. I don’t care how long it takes. I’ll play my PS4 games and be content.

LMAO Every time I see something like this posted it reminds me of this meme.


https://i.imgur.com/dTcAHZc.jpg

I get it. Lol. Sometimes I feel like that.

It sucks that there’s no stock but I’m not in a place time wise to care about having the PS5 over the PS4. It’d be nice but it’s not a huge need.

That's kind of where I'm at, although it was kind of fun to try.

I actually just got one into my cart but it wouldn't let me check out.

It's like fishing with a barbless hook. You can get them to bite but can you get them in the boat?

I finally got an order placed for one this week. Had to do one of Gamestop's bundles so I paid too much but I don't have a PS4 and wanted to grab one to start playing some of those exclusives as well. Will have Spiderman, Call of Duty and Valhalla to keep me busy for a bit now...not including the PS4 games included on the PS+ for PS5.

Do they still have the bundles available? Are those the games that came with it?

I don't think online. I looked yesterday and saw nothing. I am almost at the point of waiting until the PS6 comes out to get a PS5.

They were not adding to the cart when first for sale and I waited like 30 minutes and a tweet went out that the link was still working and people were able to buy. I got back on and it was available. It came with Spiderman Ultimate Edition and CoD.

I've been trying so long I for sure thought the order would get cancelled after I hit place order.

Incoming.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/PlayStati...sole/363472942

I have a couple friends who have used this twitter to get a next gen console successfully.

And one friend who is stubborn as hell and is still playing his PS4.