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Buying a PS5 and Xbox Series X is still a patience game. Even eight months after the release, the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft are hard to come by. Although dealers receive additional quotas every now and then, the consoles are usually sold out again after a few minutes. If you don't keep an eye on the dealers' shop pages, you look into the tube - and you may miss new sales promotions. The demand for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X continues to be huge. The reason for the lack of consoles is a worldwide shortage of semiconductors, which affects all industries.It is unlikely that the situation around the coveted chips will ease in the coming weeks. In a conversation with investors, Intel boss Pat Gelsinger said that the shortage will probably only reach its lowest point in the second half of the year. It could then take one to two years for the industry to fully catch up with demand. Accordingly, a more relaxed situation on the semiconductor market can only be expected in 2022 or even 2023.
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© Provided by TechRadar Target PS5 restock timeThere's fresh PS5 restock news today, July 26, in the US, as we can now confirm that both Target and GameStop have received shipments of PS5 consoles in the last few days. And neither American retailer had the Sony PS5 for sale last week, so the restock date and time draw near for both stores this week.
Finding PS5 in stock is easier if you follow our intrepid PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider, who will send you an alert when PS5 is in stock – if you follow his Twitter account and turn on notifications. We've seen a Best Buy PS5 restock every week recently with the $499 PS5 Disc and $399 PS5 Digital for sale most times.
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Directions: Click on this image of an example of a PS5 restock alert from Matt Swider and turn on notifications (that little bell icon) for instant alerts.
Target PS5 restock time and dateThe Target PS5 restock date could be this week – as early as Wednesday, July 28 – as we can confirm through our sources that Target stores in the US have as many as 22 PS5 Disc consoles on hand in the backroom (no, they can't sell them yet and you have to buy it online, not in stores). Our exclusive reporting shows that another store we recently checked in with currently has 11 PS5 consoles (also all PS5 Disc).
That's good news because our reporting one week ago uncovered the fact that most Target stores had just three consoles on hand. Is between 11 and 22 enough? Our sources know the inventory count and, from that, we can figure out how many consoles are consistent with a PS5 restock at Target. The answer? We're right on the cusp of that add-to-cart button going live this week. But we've also seen Target wait until it has 40 consoles on hand in most of its large stores.
What's the Target PS5 restock time? The time is between 7am and 8am EDT – that's always been the restock time window in 2021. The most popular time is 7:40am EDT, but you don't want to miss it by a couple of minutes in case it's at 7:06am EDT like it was for the last PS5 restock time three weeks ago.
Target typically settles on a restock date that falls on a Wednesday or Thursday. It has only once chosen a Friday (likely due to it being a holiday a few days prior).
Without knowing for sure the PS5 restock date, it's tough to tell people on the West Coast of the United States to wake up at 4am PDT, but it's always easier to buy the PS5 at Target due to the fact that you're buying online but selecting a local store, thus you're competing with fewer people as your neighbors are asleep.
Best Buy PS5 restock: once a week recentlyA Best Buy PS5 restock date has happened once a week for four weeks in a row, and that's typical for America's largest electronics-focused retailer. However, it does take off for several weeks in a row after a few consistent restock events.
Basically, when to buy a PS5 at Best Buy has become unpredictable, unlike Walmart which does the same day of the week and time consistently, and it's why our PS5 restock alerts have been important to people.
Why don't PS5 restock dates get announced by Best Buy? It's likely an effort to thwart bots, but the truth is bots are able to automatically check out more easily than everyone else. This is why, in your area, buying a PS5 may feel impossible and the reason Best Buy PS5 restocks cause so many people to lose out.
GameStop PS5 restock: every 7 to 15 days (it's been 10)The GameStop PS5 restock date is likely this week, with the US retailer having been on a consistent pattern: restocking the Sony console every week to week-and-a-half. Today, July 26, it's been 10 days, so we're likely to see GameStop offer PS5 bundles this week. There are several reasons to pay attention to the PS5 consoles for sale at GameStop if you really want to buy it immediately.
Look for an alert for the GameStop PS5 restock similar to this one. It's your best chance.
Walmart PS5 restock: almost always a ThursdayOur reporting got this one right days in advance. Walmart was due to have the PS5 Disc console in stock and sure enough that happened last Thursday at 3pm EDT. It had been over a month and we started to receive intel from sources that Walmart had enough inventory to do a restock this past week for everything but PS5 Digital, especially after its PS5 restock disaster a month prior.
Walmart does take a long time to ship PS5 consoles to some people, and that's why we don't expect a Walmart PS5 restock every Thursday at 3pm EDT. It usually waits until enough customers have the Sony console from the last batch before opening up new orders again. Still, we are tracking the PS5 at Walmart regardless.
Amazon PS5 restock: hasn't dropped PS5 Digital yetThe Amazon PS5 restock for July 2021 has already happened, though when it happened last week it was limited to PS5 Disc. There was no PS5 Digital for sale at Amazon. It has done this before and pivoted back to offering both PS5 Disc and PS5 Digital the next month.
And really, according to our analysis, we probably won't see an Amazon PS5 restock until late August. There's a consistent monthly pattern to Amazon in 2021: it's always a random weekday once a month and shifts between daytime and nighttime. Since this last restock happened during the day, we could see another midnight or 3am EDT PS5 restock from Amazon next month.
Sony Direct PS5 restock happened twice in JulySony Direct PS5 restock news has changed over the last few months, with the official store for the PlayStation brand going from a reliable four-times-a-week heavyweight to a twice-a-month afterthought. The process to buy it has changed, too.
Sony Direct email invites get sent – randomly – to registered PSN users so that they can buy the console in a special virtual queue. That wasn't really part of the process early on. More recently, it has only opened up a second virtual queue to other PSN users (who aren't on the email invite list) to press their luck for the console.
This is all Sony's way of randomizes who will get through the waiting process, though our expert advice always suggests using multiple devices to increase your chances. The Sony Direct restock time usually ends the day for us, often happening at 5pm EDT, or just a few minutes later. The special email invite goes out ahead of time (about 40 hours in advance).