Find out where to buy your Playstation 5 today with our live tracking of restocks during the day. Also benefit from all our buying advice and all the information you need for a hassle-free purchase.
[Mis à jour le 27 juillet 2022 à 14h47] With the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, it’s hard to imagine an easy exit for next-gen home consoles. This was also the case for the Playstation 5 in November 2020, with a release directly out of stock at all French and European retailers. Since then, the way to buy the Sony console has changed, forcing consumers to wait for occasional restocking of the console at all high-tech retailers, and to grab it within a minute once available. To help you in your quest for the console, here is our live and daily follow-up of PS5 stocks, but also our various tips & tricks for a quick purchase and the best second-hand console offers.
Our inventory follow-up for Wednesday July 27 live
- 3:18 p.m.: There is one pack left at the Fnac
- 2:43 p.m.: The console is available from Fnac
- 11:20 a.m.: The console is available at Amazon UK ! (Prime members)
- 10:26 a.m.: The console is back in stock at AmazonUK, offer reserved for subscribers UK premium (Amazon FR is also to watch this morning)
- 10:20 a.m.: find the console used and new at Rakuten (see below)
First restocking of the day this Wednesday with a private sale organized by Amazon UK. This sale is for Prime UK members only, but don’t panic, you can also get it via Prime’s free trial at this address. The e-commerce giant tends to often reserve its copies of the console for Amazon Prime members. Also, you should know that sales of Playstation 5 on Amazon are often extremely competitive, since all European buyers can have access to it, but also because the sales platform is conducive to the use of buying bots.
The second restocking of the day took place on Amazon France. The American giant has put on sale copies of the console in its Standard Horizon Forbidden West version at € 559.99. Again, this sale is for Amazon Prime members only, and attracts the attention of many shoppers. If you haven’t managed to get a copy of the console, don’t panic, sales on Amazon are often very short because they are very popular and open to all European buyers. Other restocking should follow during the day, do not hesitate to come back to this page to be informed.
For this early afternoon, the console is back on the Fnac site! Once is not custom, the French retailer offers copies of the PS5 in Horizon Forbidden West packs. A little useful advice on Fnac: be careful to add the console to your wishlist using the little heart located at the top right of the product. Once the console has been added to your wishlist, you will need to go to your profile and then to “Your Wishlist”. You will find the Playstation 5 there and can add it to your basket directly from this page. This will save you long queues on the product pages.
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.