The Playstation is back at the beginning of the week, with a sale planned on the Micromania site this morning. Find our live stock tracking and buying advice a little further down in this article.
[Updated July 18, 2022 at 11:23 a.m.] The PS5 is back! The highly demanded console from Sony made a remarkable appearance this Monday morning on the Micromania website. Digital and Standard consoles sold in packs offering games, the console, controllers, and accessories. Attention, the demand for the PS5 is strong and the crowd on the site of the French retailer is likely to be strong. If you want to avoid queues, try bypassing product pages by adding them directly to your wishlist. You can then make your purchase directly from your profile! If you can’t get the console, don’t panic, other restockings could follow during the day or tomorrow morning, restockings that we follow live by your side.
The packs available at Micromania this morning are open for pre-order. You will therefore receive your console and the accessories that accompany it when they are available in stores, a delay which can generally take a few weeks at the blue and green retailer. You will find among the offers offered, Horizon Forbidden West console packs accompanied by accessories, controllers and games for the most provided. Please note that two versions of the console are available, the Digital version and the Standard version, and only the second has a CD player.
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 (i.e. processors and graphics processors for consoles and PCs) has been hit hard, curbing 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.
