Here’s how to get either the PS5 or Xbox Series X with our restock tracker Matt Swider. You can get his alerts today.
PS5 and Xbox Series X restock challenges continue in August 2021, but I’ve found a way – well, many ways – to know precisely when stores in the US have the consoles in stock. It’s through both my 24/7 PS5 and Xbox Series X restock Twitter tracker account and my exclusive restock news reporting that I’ve sent real-time updates to people, growing from 21,000 followers to 837,789 followers in six months. American stores like GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy, Target and even Costco have the Sony and Microsoft consoles in stock at random times. It’s become my job to track PS5 and Xbox Series X at each online store. Through my latest PS5 restock live stream, I’ve helped subscribers by coaching them through the complicated checkout process. If you’re not one of the 70,000 people with the console yet, here’s what to do. I didn’t expect to be closing in on one million followers (projected to happen in September 2021), but over the last six months, I’ve sent hundreds of PS5 and Xbox Series X restock alerts to my followers, who have notifications turned on. Directions: Click on this screenshot of a PS5 restock alert from Matt Swider and turn on notifications (that little bell icon) for instant alerts. This is what you’ll see when there’s the PS5 is in stock from Best Buy, for example. Notice the helpful tips in the second tweet? I’ll point you to stores that have online orders for the Sony and Microsoft consoles, including Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and GameStop, all the way to smaller retailers in the US like Antonline and Kohl’s, the latter of which isn’t known for video game sales and rarely has the PS5 in stock. Every restock alert matters, though, if it gets people the console of their choice. Origin story: For me, the Twitter restock account took off organically: I couldn’t find the PS5 and Xbox Series X in stock myself. I tweeted my frustration. The next day, Sony Direct, which is the official PlayStation store, opened up another ‘virtual queue’ and I sent out a tweet, alerting others. I still didn’t get it, but then people started thanking me and following my account. From there, it snowballed. Elusive Sony Direct email invites are the key to overcoming the PS5 restock challenge and while these emails are sent randomly to PSN users, there are ways in which you can open yourself up to getting picked. Specifically, it requires you to open yourself up to get emails from Sony, and through signing up for Matt’s restock email newsletter – we’ve taught people how to do this time and time again. It’s a complicated process, as Sony has buried the email check box deep in a bunch of settings submenus of your PSN account. We’ve also filled our newsletter with a bunch of other tricks on how to buy the PS5. With 41,000 people watching my latest YouTube live stream for the Walmart PS5 and Xbox Series X restock, I’ve gone from simply sending out alerts and a few written tips to people in character-limited tweets to actually walking them through the complicated checkout process. Get this image to like and subscribe for future YouTube videos that will live coach you through the PS5 and Xbox buying process in the US. It’s an amazing feeling helping people in real-time as they ask me questions through the YouTube Live chatbox. And every retailer is different. the Walmart PS5 restock live stream proved difficult, but lining up the add-to-cart button with the ‘Sorry out of stock dialogue box’ that pops up so that you can just hammer away at the add-to-cart button seconds faster proved to be a winning strategy. Trying to tell people about that on Twitter is… difficult. People decry PS5 and Xbox Series X bundles, and there’s a litany of reasons for this. Sometimes they don’t like the games or accessories includes, often they want the console for MSRP, and all of that is understandable. But, too often, these same Twitter followers of mine spend weeks or even months trying to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X and cave to buying a console on StockX or eBay. And here’s the kicker, instead of getting a bundle from GameStop or Antonline for $750 with three to four games, an extra controller and a gift card, they pay $800 to a reseller for just the console.
