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- Sony’s PS5 preorder mess continues as the console remains sold out at several retailers.
- Amazon has contacted PS5 buyers, warning them that it can’t guarantee their purchase will be shipped on November 12th, when the console launches in stores.
- Amazon says it’s making every effort to ship the PS5 to buyers “as soon as possible once released.”
The PlayStation 5 preorder mess continues with another annoying chapter that further underscores Sony’s biggest problem. There’s not enough supply to meet the enormous demand.
Sony fumbled preorders earlier this week with its unusual announcement. Initially, the company revealed only the price and release dates for the two PS5 versions at the end of a virtual press event focused on next-gen games. Then Sony tweeted that preorders would start on Thursday, without saying which retailers would offer them, and when online sales would start. The press release that followed lacked those details as well.
Retailers then somehow decided they should start selling the console several hours ahead of schedule. Come Thursday morning, there was hardly any stock left. At the time, we told you the preorder mess might mask Sony’s rumored supply issues, which the company denied a few days before the event.
Now Amazon practically confirms that there won’t be enough stock to go around.
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