Find the PS5 once again on sale this week, with various restockings at French and European retailers. We follow with you and live the evolution of stocks of the day.
[Mis à jour le 19 juillet 2022 à 14h04] The time may have come for you to get the Playstation 5! Although the console spent the first eighteen months of its existence out of stock, it seems to be coming back into stock more and more regularly in recent weeks. Blame it on a prolific stock period for Sony, and the arrival of the PS5 + Horizon Forbidden West model on the market. Only, the method to buy it does not evolve, you will always have to be among the first customers to arrive on the page to seize the rare copies available. The console is sold alone, or in packs, and gives you about fifteen minutes to buy once it goes online. To help, here’s our live web console inventory tracker, plus the best used deals and buying advice:
Our inventory follow-up for Tuesday July 19 live
- 14h00 : A public sale is organized at Sony ! The console is still available in packs
- 09h10: the Playstation 5 is back at Super UAttention, it is available for reservation for collection in store on August 3, subject to an advance of 200 euros.
- 08:30: find the console used and new at Rakuten.
It is from Sony that comes the surprise this Tuesday. The manufacturer is organizing a public sale on its site for the first time in several months. We find the console available alone, in Standard and Digital versions, but also in Horizon Forbidden West packs. These will undoubtedly be the last to leave, so don’t hesitate to find out about the various pages available. For now, stocks appear to be holding up, having been available for sale for several tens of minutes. If other resellers show up during the day, we will let you know in real time in this article.
As for second-hand consoles, you will always have the opportunity to find Playstation 5s for resale. New or second-hand, Sony’s console has a real value well above its base price, and resellers have understood this. Although the Playstation 5 has seen its resale price drop by several hundred euros in recent months, it remains very high, despite some interesting offers on the Rakuten site. A purchase that remains reserved for the most motivated players and who wish to avoid the waltz of drops and purchases at full speed. Just keep in mind that the Playstation 5 Digital is €399 and the Standard is €499.
For 18 months buyers have been struggling to get a Playstation 5. The new game console is in high demand, and e-commerce sites feel it during the rare restocking and new stocks. Indeed, the crowd is great on the latter while some pages collapse completely in long queues. Speed is the key word of this new “sport” of which there are certain rules that can greatly benefit you. Indeed, each site has its own operation, and this slide contains a few tricks that can help you make your purchase as quickly as possible.
As you will have understood, the Playstation 5 is part of a generation of consoles released directly out of stock. Remember, when Sony’s last console was released, it was November 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic was reaching peak levels, paralyzing the economy around the world. Southeast Asia, the leading producer of semiconductor metals used in the manufacture of smart cards (ie processors and graphics processors for consoles and PCs) has been hard hit, slowing the production of consoles, graphics cards and even cars all over the world. A factor that is still felt today on the high-tech market, and particularly on that of the latest generation game consoles.
As for Playstations 5, and more generally graphics processors, the situation should not return to normal before 2024. A prediction made by Pat Gelsinger, the President and CEO of Intel, who affirms in an interview with CNBC that the production of microchips should return to its full potential by the end of 2023. A precise expertise but a bad omen for console and PC gamers who expected to be able to enjoy a stable situation by the end of 2023 the end of the year 2022.