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While this is obviously good news, hopefully the scenario won’t repeat itself. At the time of writing, it’s still not entirely clear how this incident came about. Though it’s possible that these were simple mistakes, it’s also been theorized that those PS5 pre-orders were actually stolen, potentially to be sold on eBay at ridiculously high mark-ups.
There’s no denying that there is a serious scalper problem. Even before the console launched, a quick search revealed people offering their own pre-orders for double the standard price. One scalper group in the UK drew plenty of ire and outrage when it bragged about securing thousands of PS5 consoles.
That same group was also able to acquire more than 1,000 Xbox Series X consoles too, which it would’ve no doubt sold at inflated prices too, but Very, the retailer where it placed the orders, ended up canceling them.
Despite all the issues surrounding the PS5’s launch (the COVID-19 pandemic and stock not meeting demand certainly didn’t help), the console has still managed to be a huge financial success for Sony. In fact, it’s been confirmed to be Sony’s biggest launch console ever, selling twice as much as Microsoft’s rival console.
With Christmas around the corner, though, both Sony and Microsoft are no doubt aiming to have more stock available in time, so desperate customers won’t have to rely on scalpers. Only recently, Walmart Canada, for example, confirmed that it will have both consoles in stock from tomorrow, but they’ll only be available online.
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Source: IGN
