It might seem almost impossible to get your hands on a PS5 right now, but we’re here to help.
The good news is …
It might seem almost impossible to get your hands on a PS5 right now, but we’re here to help. The good news is that the situation seems to be improving. Best Buy, Amazon, Target and GameStop all restocked their PS5 inventory this past week. Those PS5 restocks seemed to be available longer than usual, which could indicate that more people (instead of scalpers) are actually getting to buy the PS5 gaming console. Meanwhile, Amazon’s Prime Day is happening sometime in June, which raises questions about whether there will be another PS5 restock from Amazon and if other retailers will follow suit. We’ll have to wait to find out. For the latest PS5 restock information, keep reading — and check back often for the latest updates. Sony’s newest console is still hard to find seven months after its launch. Contributing to the difficulty is the fact that scalpers are using bots — and the global chip shortage continues. Sony says it’s aware of the problem and is figuring out a solution. “We’re working as hard as we can to ameliorate that situation,” Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan told Wired on May 12. “We see production ramping up over the summer and certainly into the second half of the year, and we would hope to see some sort of return to normality in terms of the balance between supply and demand during that period.” Here’s a list of recent restocks in order to get an idea of when retailers will get more PS5s: The store with the most frequent PS5 restocks is still PlayStation Direct, where drops often take place in the afternoon and require people to queue up for a chance to buy a console.
