- Walmart has restocked PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
- The sale will begin at 12 p.m. today.
- Sale price PS5 – $400 and Xbox – $300.
When Sony announced PS5 in November this year, the console was out of stock at major retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, etc. The Gaming console was not available at Sony’s own official online PlayStation store.
PlayStation 5 is so popular that on September 16, Sony stated that pre-orders for the console were to open at various retailers on the next day. However, several retailers in the United States and the United Kingdom launched pre-order on the evening of September 16.
Even with such confusion and conflict of the statement, many store’s inventories were quickly sold out. Although, Sony apologized for the incident and promised to increase more pre-order deliveries over the coming days and will replenish stocks through the end of the year.
Another Chance to Buy
According to a Twitter user that goes by the Twitter handle “Wario64” spotted that Walmart may restock the popular Consoles.
And the Wario64 was right, Starting today Walmart has restocked various consoles such as PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or Series S and will sell these consoles only through online websites due to the current pandemic.
The Sale will start at 12 p.m. Pacific Time or 3 p.m. Eastern Time. The only caveat is that the delivery of the consoles may arrive after Christmas. Depending completely upon your delivery location though.
Walmart giving Fair Chance
Recently, Walmart confirmed that they had successfully stopped boys from snatching new PS5 units before humans can buy them. The incident was bought to Walmart’s attention after the pre-Thanksgiving sale.
“Bot scripts are constantly evolving and being re-written, so we’ve built, deployed, and are continuously updating our own bot-detection tools, allowing us to successfully block the vast majority of bots we see,” Jerry Geisler, Walmart’s chief information security officer.
