PlayStation Direct Store Requires You To Queue Up Due To High Traffic

If you want to explore the PlayStation Direct store, you'll have to line up as there's a long queue. The average current estimate for people is more than an hour.

[SamTheGamer]

And it's sold out.

[Jin_Sakai]

PS5 demand is off the charts.

[neutralgamer1992]

Man I see on ebay amazon and Facebook marketplace people asking well north of $950 on the low end. People who actually want one to play can't get one because of the scalpers. On ebay they are selling for well over a 1000 with active bidding

I guess it's a good business decision right now to buy few and sell for double if not more of the MSRP

[Pughski]

Scalpers from India be like $$$$

[Sunny12345]

@Neutal. Where i live there is a limit of of 1 console per person. So thats limits the scalpers to some extent. Though its still sold out. But I ain't too worried, I don't think we will have a stock problem. Even if I don't get it now I will have one by end November. But if I don't get one by December I am gonna get angry.

[Ron_Danger]

This isn’t news. This is how initial preorders were.

[Miacosa]

This never worked for me tired as an option three different times and the console sold out every time before the timer ended.

[Ninte]

Sadly there are people who listed their PS5 the same day they bought it and I'm in NZ and I see it's already flooded with an asking price of $1200 and over. Can't people wait for the next shipment and not get sucked into paying more then the retail price.

[GamingSinceForever]

Someone was nice enough to sell me the physical version for $650. Over retail but not too high.

[Dude Dutch]

Still a wrong thing to do.

[S2Killinit]

At least they were fair about it.

[Bruh]

Bruh....don't give scalpers a penny man

[GamingSinceForever]

What's so sad about supplying a demand? Seriously if someone is willing to pay $1200 for a $500 console then good for the seller. I have every intention of playing mine however if someone offered me more than double I will do what is economically right. Eventually we will all get our hands on the system.

@Bruh it wasn't a scalper. Someone I knew got one online for someone else who changed their mind. I asked the person to honor the order and paid them a little extra. Yes they could have sold it for way more but they chose to let me get it off them. However that $650 was my absolute max. With taxes here where I live I would have paid $550 retail anyway.

@S2Killinit what is fair? The market demand is the market demand which is set by what people are willing to pay.

[enkiduxiv]

I was on Walmart’s website for every single batch. The second it hit the hour and the icon changed I would try to add it to my cart. The website would struggle for about two minutes and then when it finally allowed me to hit the check out button it was sold out. I honestly don’t know what else I could have done. Same thing happened with Best Buy and Amazon during the pre-order phase.

I want to buy one now because it’s always nice to get some gaming in during a holiday but I don’t need one bad enough to give money to the scalpers. If Sony wants my money they should really try harder to take it.

[jznrpg]

If Covid wasn’t around I’d say they should do this differently . But with Covid & Bots there isn’t much they can do . They don’t want to encourage people to amass at the store .

[Seraphim]

Walmart was a shite show. 12pm got through most of checkout. 3pm got no where. 6pm got no where. 9pm I got to submit order despite for some reason having to put my payment info in even though I saved it the night before. At submit order, the last step, loading, loading, error, loading, sold out. So pissed off. I got a whopping 3 hours of sleep yesterday morning. And despite constantly checking Best Buy & Target even though I missed out on the 2 that were listing 60 min North of me late Wed night.

And the fact that EVERYTHING is online only is such BS. Why couldn't I have placed a pre-order in store? Allot each location X units and hold whatever back for online sales. Or even allow X pre0-orders over allotment and let the customer you likely won't have launch day but when the first additional shipment drops you should be able to get one. Walmart had to have gotten a massive shipment of PS5s for launch. If they truly don't want people coming into the stores they'd section off everything except pharmacy, grocery and household necessities. I took the long shot of stopping by Meijer at opening Thursday and they weren't allotted any PS5s for launch. I imagine the same can be said for XB as they aren't carrying any next gen stuff atm likely due to not even having access to consoles.

It's a complete and utter joke and failure on so many levels from so many places. There needs to be a better process and more units available at launch. This is like 20+ years ago where supply was limited to drum up hype, free publicity and give the perception of massive units moving.

oh and best of all. when I check Best Buy they tell me the closest Demo Unit is 3 hours away. Why TF does Best Buy have demo units!!?? We don't want foot traffic due to co-vid but hey, come check out the new PS5 demo in select stores now.

[Challengerscatpack]

Wal mart was a joke. Yesterday I got through checkout, review order and got my card CVV added. I got submit, error. I do it 10 times it goes to the next screen and says “place order.” I hit it, it takes me back to the review order screen. I went through this endless loop 10 times. I thought I had one, the last time I clicked place order it gave me that stupid ass reindeer screen. I was livid.

[jznrpg]

Man if I needed the money I’d consider selling mine . But even if I did I doubt I could make my self do it lol (unless I had hungry children or something like that)

[sourOG]

The queue system works great. That’s how I got mine on round one.

[Bizzle54]

If you're in the queue does that guarantee you a purchase

[sourOG]

Im pretty sure it does but I’m not 100 percent. They know how many they have an it’s one per person. I had to wait 45 min too so it’s not unusual.

[psuedo]

Digital is the future!!! Virtual lines when you want to get nostalgic about lines at the store. Can we have some kind of dating thing to go with virtual lines?

[jznrpg]

So I just checked the Sony Direct page and it says check back 11/13 . They will have more available later today (it’s 2:52am cst right now) go for it ! I may try and preorder one and will sell it to someone who wants to actually own it and use it for cost . Damn bots . I have to get up early for eye appointment so I’ll check back then . Good luck people don’t give up !

[Ausbo]

Those who haven’t got one, keep at it. Every now and then a retailer opens up. I just got one on amazon last night.

The best thing to do is follow wario64 on Twitter and turn on notifications. I acted immediately on one of his notifications and was able to secure one.

Good luck everyone

[XiNatsuDragnel]

PS5: I'm not even in my final form yet lol.

[Challengerscatpack]

Lol I was on there immediately trying to buy one for a friend. I didn’t know how to log in or something so I reloaded like an idiot and got into the 1 hour queue. Oops.

[ChiefofLoliPolice]

Glad I got mine. I'm loving it!

[T2X]

on sony direct? and if so, how long was que line?

[Bizzle54]

Walmart had stock at 3 today

[Ninte]

I see Vodafone nz had a deal with Sony but the ones who paid for them have taken to fb of their frustration that they got a message saying all sold out.