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[PS Blog] PlayStation 5: Launch Day Ordering Update (online only, in-store pickup, no campers)
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DunDunDunpachi
Patient MembeR
Massive. 
I don’t see the point of this even with covid. How are stores going to regulate thousands of people going into store to pick up their orders? A waiting list and time frame doesn’t work since that would take days to set up individual people picking their PS5.
My bet is on launch day you’re still going to see hundred of people at retail stores to pick up the PS5. You can’t spread out that many people. It would take a long time.
My bet is on launch day you’re still going to see hundred of people at retail stores to pick up the PS5. You can’t spread out that many people. It would take a long time.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
This was pretty much a given. I don't see why people thought retailers would want crowds outside their stores at midnight during covid
MatrixReloaded101
Member
Best Buy already does this with in-store pickup, what do you mean?
That’s a random set of orders. This a launch day of new console that’s been pre ordered by thousands of people. How are they going fill those orders without people going to the store in droves? Individually settings appointments is going to take along time.
Moogle11
Banned
Fine by me. At least some slight chance of scoring one with bits/scalpers spread out with it sounding like Walmart, Target and others are doing online orders for in store pickup so at least can just compete with people spamming your local stores‘ inventory than everyone foot after the same online delivery stock.
Probably a slim chance, but I’m too old and don’t care enough to line up, camp out etc anyway. Not the end of the world if I don’t get one for a few months, but I don’t mind refreshing some store pages a few times on the 12th and trying my luck. Especially if they all announce set times like Wal-mart did.
Probably a slim chance, but I’m too old and don’t care enough to line up, camp out etc anyway. Not the end of the world if I don’t get one for a few months, but I don’t mind refreshing some store pages a few times on the 12th and trying my luck. Especially if they all announce set times like Wal-mart did.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Nah, regular launch, just not wanting any of this.
Honestly this will still happen whenever stores start stocking them normally. All this online only order is doing is penting up demand.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
They are not selling consoles to people on launch day without a pre-order. At least that is the understanding that I got from reading the blog post.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Who isn't?
There will be stores with launch day stock outside of pre-orders.
Codeblew
Member
This company wouldn't make it so you had to order something online to come pick up in the store. It makes no sense to do that. There are always over 100 people in these stores at a time anyway. It is technically an "essential" business.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
Besides target, which stores have confirmed that?
I don't think people realize just how limited the stock is for this console. I guarantee that Target will be a shit show.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Walmart confirmed it, along with actual times slots to lessen the load.
Best Buy as well via sales flyers for next week.
LordCBH
Member
PlayStation 5: Launch Day Ordering Update
Launch-day sales will be online-only this year, so please plan ahead.blog.playstation.com
Walmart: challenge accepted
Yes and people with pre orders number in the thousands. I’m curious to see how they handle that cause there’s no case where there won’t be a lot of people on launch day picking up their PS5. Which to me makes this covid safety thing moot.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
Yes and people with pre orders number in the thousands. I’m curious to see how they handle that cause there’s no case where there won’t be a lot of people on launch day picking up their PS5. Which to me makes this covid safety thing moot.
I agree but they still have to be careful here because the last thing they want is for people to get covid while camping outside the stores for a console. Sony and none of these retailers want to be responsible for something like that, which is why they released this statement.
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Moogle11
Banned
Yeah they’re just avoiding having huge crowds camping and lining up. Doing online orders for in-store/curbside pick up will limit that (some won’t be aware and will still show up at opening etc).
I also think stick will be quite limited. The online stock trackers (popfndr etc) are showing licks targets having no more than 20 (many with 0 or 6, but it’s been updating daily). And I’m in a big city area. So it may not be that many pick up orders to deal with, though they of course have in site pick up preorders to get handed over too.
I also think stick will be quite limited. The online stock trackers (popfndr etc) are showing licks targets having no more than 20 (many with 0 or 6, but it’s been updating daily). And I’m in a big city area. So it may not be that many pick up orders to deal with, though they of course have in site pick up preorders to get handed over too.
Neofire
Member
Exactly, people can't read context correctly these days.
These online orders will be for local customers. Hence why they will have stock but won't have walk in purchases. Would make no sense to send all those ps5 to stores from the warehouse only to send them back out across the country when people order them.
There’s also online orders you can buy and pick up too at launch. On top of pre orders.
Just like when pre orders went live, none of this is going to play like Sony or retailers think.
Monkeygourmet
Banned
Can someone explain this simply...
So I’m in U.K. Do I log into to the usual stores (Smyths / Argos etc) at midnight the day before launch and try and buy plus pay for it then in the morning go down and pick it up from the store?
Is that how this is going to work?
So I’m in U.K. Do I log into to the usual stores (Smyths / Argos etc) at midnight the day before launch and try and buy plus pay for it then in the morning go down and pick it up from the store?
Is that how this is going to work?
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
//DEVIL//
Member
Yeah they just posted an ad in the store that there is no in-store pick up for the PlayStation 5 and XSX. That means They probably won't have them in the store even. shipped from the warehouse directly.
Yselacrey00
Banned
Lol what? That has never been the case before. Actually I remember them saying there should be plenty stock at launch, they had just limited pre-orders number.
Yselacrey00
Banned
Exactly. You will be able to buy a PS5 on the 12th, even if you not pre-ordered it, but you'll be able to do it online only. You then will be able to select in store pick up
Monkeygourmet
Banned
Thanks, is that on the Sony site or just pick a retailer that’s near me and hopefully have luck in the online queue?
I had zero luck before and was hoping to walk in and grab one but then the 2nd lockdown f**ked that plan up
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
If some people are so selfish, moroning, stupid and violent that they go rioting when they should not, it doesnt mean that nobody should not try to limit it. Stupid rioters, party people and other bastards have already killed enough people so it is good that PS5 is online only as it would definetly cause riots+partying+madness in the same time
Better question is: why didnt goverments of all the countries that had terrorists and idiots rioting around just used all the force is needed to stop it? Just give out public notice "go to riots? then you will be jailed, try to fight? you will can be shot or gassed". And then people whom do it = they ask for it.
And it looks like you think that covid is a joke, so there is no hope.
You can't wage literal war against your own civilians, dude. Otherwise you lose what little democracy there's left. Too much of that's already been happening here in America as the police kept getting militarized, it was always a slippery slope.
You're clinging to excuses; there's ALWAYS been people doing dumb crap and breaking the law even when there was no pandemic. Did that stop companies in the past from operating as normal? No. Did countries fall apart as a result? Again, no.
I don't think COVID is a joke insofar as existing; we know it exists. What's a joke has been the claimed severity of the virus, and the responses from governments around the world treating it as more of a threat than it actually is. Most of the people suspectible to COVID already have health issues; either from poor diets, lack of exercise, illnesses gained through risky activity (hard illegal drug use, unprotected sex, etc.) or genetic conditions outside of someone's control. Only the last of those four is one I genuinely feel sorry for when it comes to someone contracting COVID, because whatever pre-existing condition that person may've had was in no way the result of some actions of their own.
Thing is though, people with pre-existing conditions are already at risk for a lot of other viruses too, including the regular flu, yet when the regular flu gets a LOT more people sick and has more deaths attributed to it as a result, we've never seen governments across the world literally shut everything down. Even Swine Flu IIRC had a higher mortality rate than COVID; that never got classified as a pandemic and governments never shut down for it, and it eventually went away.
That's what I mean when I say what I say in regards to COVID. The response has been absolutely overblown for what it actually is, and it's everyday people like you and I who are suffering the most due to these drastic responses (that ultimately benefit massive corporations and government).
Justin9mm
Member
What a shit store, they should of handled that better.. I got angry for you just reading that!I wouldn't have lined up this time anyway. I remeber on PS4 launch I had several days off, and my amazon pre-order was canceled somehow. I went to an nearby electronics market wich was confirmed on having 10 ps4's at launch. I went there and waited from 4am till 10am when the store opens up. At first we were 5 or so people, but when the store opens we were 300 or so. I was first in line so I said to myself "well this is gonna turn out exactly as planned". When the store opens the majority of people ran in from the exit of the store and snatched the ps4s... I was still standing buffled at the entry
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Yselacrey00
Banned
Supposedly it should be the same for every retail partner. Best Buy said a couple hours ago that they wouldn't allow walk ins until 2021, so there's that. Expect the same for every authorized retailer.
A2una1
Member
Well I thought so myself. But to be fair, it is a fairly small store. I think they didn't know what hit them.
carlosrox
Banned
Only took a sentence or two to pimp some COVID propoganda/virtue signaling.
Cool world we live in.
Due to the world ending COVID PANDEMIC that pandemiced us, the PandemicStation 5 won't be pandemiced in stores. You must pandemic online to secure your pandemic. Pandemic pandemic pandemic. Pan-DEMIC. COVID 4 LIFE Y'ALL.
I've never heard of COVID before. Can someone please mention it so I don't forget what it is please? I need to be reminded of it every 30 seconds. Thanks.
Cool world we live in.
Due to the world ending COVID PANDEMIC that pandemiced us, the PandemicStation 5 won't be pandemiced in stores. You must pandemic online to secure your pandemic. Pandemic pandemic pandemic. Pan-DEMIC. COVID 4 LIFE Y'ALL.
I've never heard of COVID before. Can someone please mention it so I don't forget what it is please? I need to be reminded of it every 30 seconds. Thanks.
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hemo memo
Gold Member
Just camp outside then pre-order online then go inside to pick it up.
This is just sony and stores trying to cover their asses.
Thanks walmart for letting ppl know when to set the bots for.
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Northeastmonk
Gold Member
They’re playing it safe. Imagine a mob of angry customers who say they got COVID and they didn’t even get a console. That isn’t Sony’s fault, but there are a lot of ways they could twist Sony’s arm over it.