If you were one of the fast ones that gave a PlayStation 5 their name during the reservation period, you will probably be one of the lucky ones who will be able to have the console on time, and it seems that the console will have limited units in stores on the next 19 of November. The reason? A demand that has overwhelmed the manufacturer.
What if you run out of PS5?
Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony, has left some quite interesting statements in an interview with Reuters in which he revealed some clues about how the PlayStation 5 reservation period has developed. Recall that reservations were opened completely by surprise after the official announcement of the launch date and price by the manufacturer, but that did not prevent a wave of requests from being completed in the first 12 hours.
The accumulated demand was such that only in the first 12 hours of activation of the reservation period Sony sold more consoles than in the first 12 weeks of PS4 reservations in the United States, as Ryan himself has been able to confirm.
If you didn’t ask for one, you have it complicated
This is obviously excellent news for Sony, which will sell thousands of consoles on launch day effortlessly, but it directly becomes a logistical problem that could cause serious displeasure to more than one user. The manager has confirmed that today it is quite difficult to make a new reservation at the distributors, and that the situation right now is to work to guarantee as much as possible that there are units for the Christmas campaign. Almost nothing.
This means that, if you did not make the reservation on its day, it is very possible that next November 19 you will have a pretty bad time finding a unit for you, and that even for the Christmas period you will have to pull epic in the purest “A father in distress” style.
Do I rule out buying the PS5?
The situation is complicated. With reservations fully saturated, waiting until November 19 could be a double-edged sword, since taking into account that Xbox Series X arrives in stores in advance, miss the opportunity to buy the Xbox and wait for a PS5 Hanging out the sold out sign at minute one could leave you without a new generation console for a while.
The only recommendation is to keep looking at the stores’ reservations and check that they can guarantee the delivery of your unit in the established time, or otherwise, you will have no choice but to equip yourself with sportswear and go hunting for one. drive to the nearest mall.