• ditty@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Since scalpers would buy out all the stores and stuff, many people such as myself initially turned to discord channels for tracking new shipments to different retailers. I would check it a few times a day, checking Best Buy branches’ online inventories. Eventually Sony made a system where you could register with your PlayStation account for a slot ordering from the next available shipment.

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      9 months ago

      I guess I got lucky then.

      I woke up at around 4am, thought “I wonder if PS5 preorders are open yet”, went to amazon, see that preorders are indeed up, one-click purchase. Go back to sleep. Got it on launch day.