The PS5 pre-orders were sold out in a few days: Sony apologizes to users and announces the release of other consoles
The new PlayStation 5 was presented on September 16 and pre-orders were sold out in just two days. An unexpected situation that has caught Sony off guard and so the company on Saturday 19 September apologized to users, announcing that it will prepare the release of other consoles in pre-order.
The release in Italy for the PS5 is scheduled for November 19, but the number of pre-orders has been such that many stores from GameStop to Unieuro and Mediaworld have already exhausted the stocks available. The next-gen consoles were launched at a price of €399 for the All Digital version and €499 for the standard one with an optical drive. If users were hoping to receive the new console by Christmas, many will be disappointed. The limited number of PS5s produced by Sony, coupled with the high demand for pre-orders, is likely to delay delivery until 2021.
November 19 update: PlayStation 5 on Amazon
Sold out on PlayStation 5 launch day. Several sites of major electronics retailers collapsed in the face of the high number of requests. Amazon ran out of stock in no time, but after a few the products became available again online. In this article, we tell all the latest updates and how to go about buying the Sony console.
PS5, already sold out of consoles for pre-order
Sony had announced that it had produced a limited number of stocks for the PlayStation 5 due to delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of this, the company should have assumed that once pre-orders opened, the console’s stock would quickly run out. A consideration that was not made, so much so that Sony decided to apologize to users. A post on the official Twitter account on September 19 reads, “We want to be honest: PS5 pre-orders could have been much easier. We apologize for that.”
In the message sent to users, Sony announces the release of more consoles and that retailers will be the ones to share more information for pre-ordering them. However, the company has guaranteed that more next gen consoles will arrive by the end of the year. Stores, both online and physical, will soon be able to resume pre-orders, according to Sony, but they are already warning that PlayStation 5 deliveries may slip to after the Christmas vacations.
PS5 sold out: sales in crazy numbers
The PlayStation’s launch price was announced by Sony on September 16: €399 for the PS5 All Digital Edition and €499 for the PS5 with Blu-ray optical drive. The limited stock available and preorders sold out in just two days have already led to online speculation about the few next gen consoles from Sony available. On the eBay site there are sellers who have already put their pre-order on sale, coming to offer the console even to 2000 dollars.
The record at the moment has been reached in the United States, with a user who has put on sale the console pre-ordered on the site of Sony to 25000 dollars, while in the United Kingdom another user has set the price to 10000 pounds and would already have three users willing to buy it at that figure. Prices definitely inflated, which could be remedied by placing other consoles on the market, as announced by the company.