Company Sony Interactive Entertainment prepared a surprise for Japanese players and shipped a new batch of consoles Playstation 5 to local stores for free sale from 1st January. The publication informs about this. GAME Watch Impress…
Previously, the Japanese could buy the PlayStation 5 only by pre-order or by lotteries – the drawing of the right to purchase was arranged by large online retailers.
The new batch of systems began to be distributed in the usual way in retail stores, but no prior notification was made to avoid the high activity of dealers. The news of the New Year’s shipment spread quickly across the internet, resulting in long queues at points of sale. Sony partners only release one set-top box per hand.
The delivery volumes have not been specified, but it is expected that it will be sold out in the next few hours.
In addition to ordinary players, industry figures rushed to shops for consoles. For example, today the development manager was able to buy the PlayStation 5 Astral Chain Takahisa Taura from the studio PlatinumGames… Before that, he had been unsuccessfully trying to get a new system for more than a month.
つ い に PS5 を 購入 で き た ！！ 嬉 し い 反面 、 新年 早 々 に 今年 の 目標 を 見 失 っ て し ま っ た …… pic.twitter.com/l1AtiRftPv
– 田 浦 貴 久 / Takahisa Taura (@PG_taura) January 1, 2023
On December 29, DigiTimes released a column in which it was reported that in the first month, Sony sold 3.4 million PlayStation 5 consoles around the world, which is a record for the brand.… It also said that from the beginning of 2023, Sony is going to increase shipments to Japan and other Asian countries, where the problem of meeting demand remains the most acute.
Read also: Lack of PlayStation 5 leads to a scuffle in the American store – a police officer was injured, participants were arrested…
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