Industry Insider Reveals Additional PS5 Pre-Order Information
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The past two weeks have been absolutely chaotic for console fans all over the world. First, Sony failed to communicate its pre-order information correctly to the customers and had to apologize for it. Then, Xbox’s pre-orders caused almost all websites to crash due to the sheer number of people waiting to order the consoles.
Pre-orders for both consoles will go live again soon, but more information is yet to be released for the same. Although, an industry insider has revealed a bit of information that will interest PS5 fans.
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Popular insider Wario64 has more PS5 pre-order information
Popular insider Wario64 took to Twitter to announce what he had found out from his sources.
“GameStop will be doing in-store only preorders for PlayStation 5 (Disc) this Friday. These PS5s will not be for launch day but likely within one or two weeks after launch GameStop hasn’t officially announced this but that’s what I heard from an employee”
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In addition to this, he also said,
“More info:
- Preorders available during normal GameStop hours
- PS5s expected to arrive within a week of launch
- Pulse Headset/DualSense Charging not available to preorder with Friday’s PS5
- Some stores may not be doing reservations if they over-reserved last week”
More info:
•Preorders available during normal GameStop hours
•PS5s expected to arrive within a week of launch
•Pulse Headset/DualSense Charging not available to preorder with Friday's PS5
•Some stores may not be doing reservations if they over-reserved last week https://t.co/PEzeiCaoNd— Wario64 (@Wario64) September 23, 2020
This will probably lead to a lot more chaos as the global pandemic is still on and people flooding to stores would be unsafe. Nevertheless, if fans want to pre-order the consoles, they will have to get in the line, quite literally.
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