News bon plan The surefire ways to buy a PS5 before Christmas
It’s been 2 long years now that the PlayStation 5, almost always called PS5, has been almost impossible to find, especially in the run-up to the holiday season, when millions of people want to offer a game console in present. Here are our tips for maximizing your chances of buying Sony’s prized machine.
Finding a PS5 before Christmas for a regular price isn’t completely impossible
Galloping inflation and the fall in the price of the euro have got the better of the price of the PS5. While the console has almost always been sold for €499 in its standard version, it has just officially gone to 549€. If you want to buy the PS5 with disc drive, here is the minimum price.
Minimum, because it is important to specify that most of the console restockings for a few weeks are not classic restockings. The vast majority of the time, merchants, well aware that the console is highly sought following, take the opportunity to sell other products by selling the PS5 in packs containers for several other products.
In general, you will find a second controller, possibly an official Sony headset, and a game (like the excellent Horizon Forbidden West for example). No prices are inflated, you just pay for several products in addition to the console. If you get away with it for €750, that’s not bad.
In addition to allowing more things to be sold, these packs allow restocking to last over time. A return to stock of the classic PS5 never lasts long. Often, everything is robbed in minutes or even seconds.
Whatever happens, don’t give up. Part of our job as the good tips editor is to closely track PS5 stock returns. Even in these troubled times, we see PS5s on a fairly regular basis. With of the method and the determination, you will have your console at normal price before Christmas, I promise. Here are our top tips.
Above all, we sincerely advise you to put all the chances on your side by creating customer accounts with all the most popular online merchants. If you don’t have an account when the console is back in stock, the few minutes needed to create one might prove fatal. Once the accounts are created, keep all of these tabs permanently open on your computer, even at work:
- See PS5 Stock at Amazon
- See PS5 stocks at Fnac
- See PS5 stocks at Cdiscount
- Check PS5 stocks at Micromania
- See PS5 stocks at Cultura
- See PS5 stocks at Boulanger
To keep you informed of a restocking, several solutions are possible. Some sites set up alerts by email and/or SMS. There are also Discord groups. Better, you can simply visit our site, JV! We publish an express news each time we see PS5 stock passing.
It is also sometimes possible to have a PS5 by going in a physical store such as Micromania or Fnac. Some sell their PlayStation 5s as soon as they receive them and others practice pre-orders: they then add you to a waiting list (often subject to the payment of a deposit) and call you when they receive a PS5. This method also requires a lot of patience and finding a store likely to have PlayStation 5s.
Finally, if you are full of money, it is always possible to go through third-party resellers, sometimes found on very reliable sites like Cdiscount or Rakuten. Scalpers are always present, and, even if it is not a very moral practice and that we do not recommend it to you at all, some people are ready to pay more than the normal price to have their console quickly. If you are one of those, we do not judge.
