So we're right at the 18-month point for the PS5 launch and you still can't buy them.
I've stopped looking, monitoring trackers and Twitter accounts.
A year from now, we may be hearing about PS5 Pro being released.
Then we can start the cycle again.
yea that's fairly disappointing to hear. Curious to hear your thoughts on whether the experience would have been better if they only allowed stores to sell them, or to fight over it online with scalpers?So we're right at the 18-month point for the PS5 launch and you still can't buy them.
I've stopped looking, monitoring trackers and Twitter accounts.
A year from now, we may be hearing about PS5 Pro being released.
Then we can start the cycle again.
I suspect covid played a role here in remember it just beginning so all sorts of weird rules were being applied. I had a feeling that the longer covid went the likelihood the malls would shut down. So I just went for it. Correctly so, the malls were shut down by the time consoles were released; but the stores honoured everything and we waited outside the mall at specific times and they came outside and brought us into the store. And then we’re escorted out.Well I never had problems getting consoles around launch going to the stores. Never lined up overnight but once I did go to a store around 5 AM and was able to get a PS3 I believe.
Online is a good idea in theory but I don't know, they let scalpers keep buying more and more and there were enough people willing to pay double or more to these scalpers.
They should have allowed people to order and then work out that list maybe, so everyone gets a chance to buy. Instead, any time they had an allocation, it was a competition to add it in the cart and hope to complete the transaction. So it reset every time and people go through it a half dozen times, probably give up.
Maybe the stores with brick and mortar should have just let you order for retail pickup. That might have made it more difficult for scalpers, if they could order for retail pickup at certain stores at different times. That is, you find stores near you will have allocation and then you order. But if you're nearby stores aren't getting allocations at a given time, there's no reason for you to try to buy online at that time.
That's how it was in the Netherlands. Not like that elsewhere. In the UK it was first come, first served for the longest time. Some stores then added waiting lists or lotteries for 'chance to buy', not uncommonly for massive forced bundles. GAME had the bloody cheek to force a poxy GAME t-shirt on their PS5 buyers for additional profits.Or you just sign up and wait or regularly visit brick and mortar stores … I signed up for a PS5 the day after preorders started and got mine in February … last year. And I paid 399 for the digital edition.
That's how it was in the Netherlands. Not like that elsewhere.
See, for me controls, load times, immersion and VR count more than just graphics.
I got mine yesterday on my local GAME. It seems they have regular stock coming, albeit in small quantities (5 each time), and not that many buyers. Probably because it's such a small town.
Or move manufacturing to other parts of the world for a more balanced, stable, resistant economy/society...Its not much to do about it unless we get rid of Covid...
Its not much to do about it unless we get rid of Covid...
I think at this point this is a very good strategy. I did that (pre-order in a real store) and also followed a twitter alert, the latter eventually worked for me but the store pre-order actually worked too. 2 weeks after I received my PS5 the guy called me to tell me my PS5 pre-order was available! What surprised me is that that store is like a really small operation by one guy who mostly sells vg oldies and used games.I got mine yesterday on my local GAME. It seems they have regular stock coming, albeit in small quantities (5 each time), and not that many buyers. Probably because it's such a small town.