PS5 restock: A Twitter account reported that online stores may receive new stock for the PS5 starting July 1, 2021.
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PS5 Restock Online
Buying the PlayStation 5 from online stores has been extremely difficult since the console was officially released. There were two reasons for this: scalpers and a global chip shortage. It was a given from the start that the PS5 would be in extremely high demand. But what no one expected was that the supply would be so limited.
Due to a global chip shortage, Sony had announced that there would be production issues until 2022. Of course, the PlayStation 5 is not the only console facing this problem. Microsoft's Xbox Series X is also struggling to meet increased demand.
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In addition to the low supply due to the lack of chips, the stock for the PS5 is reduced due to scalpers. Scalpers use bots to buy up all the available online stock of PS5 and Xbox Series X to sell them at a higher price. As a result, buyers either don't find any consoles available or are forced to buy them from scalpers at outrageous prices.
Apart from these consoles, another product that is hard to find is GPUs. For those who don't know, the reason why GPUs are not available is cryptomining. Bitcoin mining in general has become extremely popular. Cryptominers are constantly buying GPUs for the mining process. So the demand is extremely high, resulting in shortages, while their price has also increased significantly in recent times. However, the recent ban on cryptomining in China seems to have caused prices to decrease.
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Back to the PlayStation 5, according to a PS5 restock tracker account on Twitter, new PS5 stock will appear online on July 1, 2021.To provide more details and updates on the PS5 restock, the account provided a link to a Discord group, which is expected to update buyers on the new PS5 stock (how many consoles are available and where).
Source: Tech Times
