Last night, Best Buy confirmed that it would be having more restocks of the Xbox Series X and PS5 in select stores today at 7:30am local time, and once again they've resulted in queues around the block across the US.
Loads of customers and observers have been taking to Twitter to share their coverage of the queues, with huge demand still very evident for the two consoles, despite the fact they've been officially available for almost a year now.
We've seen plenty of folk who were successful at grabbing an Xbox Series X during the restock, so hopefully it wasn't a wasted journey for anyone who got stuck in one of these queues. Some of them were very long!
With any luck, we won't have to witness scenes like these with the Xbox Series X and PS5 this time next year, as there's hope the stock situation will have picked up by then. That said, Toshiba recently commented on the global chip shortage affecting the tech industry, suggesting some customers 'may not be fully served until 2023'.
Were you at Best Buy earlier today to pick up an Xbox Series X? Let us know how you got on down below.
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I do like how orderly and calm the queue looks with no sillyness going on.
Gamers are a good bunch at heart.
Midnight launches in the UK used to be great and calm and a bit of fun, good ole days.
It's raining where I live and I hadn't heard it would be available at 7:30. Otherwise, I might have actually stayed in line since I wake up early in the morning anyway. Oh well, I'll try later.
To be fair these next gen consoles are amazing. I imagine that the PS5 also is a massive jump with the SSD and everything else, I haven't seen one in action in real life but yeah...these things are worth lining up for
@Royalblues
In the uk we got a few store pick ups.
But you pay first on line then collect the same day that minute of you want in store.
It’s just finding them in stock at the right time.
@John117
Though the way the UK is at the minute if it got out there would probably be punch ups all sorts
In the queue.
At least in the U.K., a lot of people I know have had much better luck actually getting consoles at physical stores rather than online. I hope the lucky ones who got their consoles are enjoying themselves in the world of next (or current I guess?) gen gaming.
Anyone watching the Nintendo Direct tonight?
Dam 11pm in the UK.
Rumours of games flying around already. 😂
I wouldn't even attempt this....to annoying and depressing seing how desperate and selfish people can get in person....
I got the series X on day 1 easily and I got a ps5 at my first attempt last week lol
@Dezzy70 Yeah i'm definitely watching, Starts 7:30 pm here in eastern canada.. Hoping for a new Donkey Kong game 🤞🤞
@Bmartin001
Lucky you 7:30pm
Would good if Nintendo had big AAA in house game for Christmas and early next year.
They have been very quiet for a long time from first party.
It's nice to see everyone acting civilized and cool, Not like the animals that show up for black friday lol.. Gamers are awesome..
@Royalblues
It can be done now, it’s being in line at the right time for series x and PS5.
Switch and series s always stock in store now just to walk in and pick up, many available.
Though the switch OLED will be a different story.
@tudsworth I understand Covid but if they would just do more of these in store sales more actual people would get these. They could do in a mannerly fashion and still be Covid safe.
Just got a series x for a friend at Argos UK
online, collect from store tomorrow as soon as it opens, 10 minutes drive away.
It can be done if you keep at it never give up.
Argos drop weird random store stock at wired times has taken me 2 days. 😂
Half of them scalpers?
@mousieone I think as more and more people get jabbed, more stores are following suit and sending more of their allocation to their physical locations; so that’s a big blow to scalpers, but undoubtedly a massive pain for people who still don’t feel safe going out.
At least now it’s becoming more of a matter of when you can buy one as opposed to “if” you can.
I came up on 3 ps5s! It was easy and simple. Just waited outside calmly, socially distant, with a mask on, to be respectful. And whenever someone came out, I just held them up at gunpoint. Don't know what all the fuss is about*
*this is complete and utter tongue in cheek
@Bmartin001
Well that wasn’t worth staying up for Nintendo are turning into a joke for me.
And what the hell have they done with Bayo 3
Did Godzilla make an appearance.
The best bayo was the original Xbox360 one.
The poor switch has nothing for me right now and hasn’t for a while.
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