These days buying a PS5 is a very straightforward task. Head over to your retailer of choice, enter your payment and shipping information, and click the “buy” button. In fact, getting your hands on Sony’s current-gen console is now as simple as buying pretty much any other everyday item. But it wasn’t always this way.
For the PS5’s first two years on the market, finding the console in stock at its regular retail price was, to put it bluntly, an absolute nightmare for many shoppers. Industrious people were able to make a living by tracking PS5 restocks and helping desperate gamers and parents get hold of a console. And the restock game is one that I became very familiar with, as I provided daily PS5 stock updates for Tom’s Guide readers.
