PLAYSTATION 5. After a fairly prolific month of March for PS5 researchers, where we could see many restockings at French retailers, here comes spring with new opportunities to buy the console.
[Mis à jour le 1er avril 2022 à 18h20] The world had to say goodbye a little over a year and a half ago to the venerable Playstation 4, replaced by a more capable Playstation 5, bringing video gaming on home consoles into the next-gen. Well not really, since the PS4 has been forced to work overtime since November 2020, the fault of major shortages of semiconductors making PS5 stocks very limited. A year and a half later, the next-gen according to Sony is still out of stock, a complicated situation for buyers, who must follow the occasional restocking of the console at different retailers. A process that we simplify for you in this article, with live stock monitoring, second-hand console offers, our buying advice and all the promotions on PS5 games for the lucky ones who have already been able to obtain the console.
Our update on PS5 stocks from Friday March 1:
- 18h19 : No PS5 for the moment this Friday, it is likely that no restocking will occur during the day, nor this weekend.
- 10h10 : The PS5 is long overdue today. However, it can be found used and at a high price on the Rakuten site.
Finding a new Playstation 5 is therefore a bit of a feat. You have to be available when a restocking occurs, validate your basket quickly, deal with the heavy traffic on the sites… To avoid all this, there is always another solution, get the second-hand console. The PS5 is relatively easy to find on resale sites, like Rakuten here. Only, resellers are having a field day on the price of the console, sometimes resold for more than double its new value. Honest deals can slip between the lines, though, so here are the two best new and used PS5 deals on Rakuten. As a reminder, the console is sold new for €399 for its Digital version and €499 for its Standard version.