Why is PlayStation 5 sold out? If you’re a PlayStation lover, you may have noticed that PS5 is a bit sold out on the market and wondered why. There are some basic reasons that could be responsible for this.
Foremost, the pandemic allegedly caused Sony to delay the reveal of PS5 severally. The pandemic allegedly lead to manufacturing and shipping timelines being stretched while demand has exceeded supply.
This led to people anxiously waiting on their toes for the release of PS5 and everyone rushing to get one once it was finally released.
To add up, the same pandemic leads to most companies requesting for their workers to work remotely or from home. This led to people purchasing laptops, TikTok flared up and when PS5 launched, it got sold out.
Resellers, also noticing the high demand of the PS5, were also aggressively buying them up as they are available and selling them at a much higher price on eBay and StockX.
Finally, due to cryptocurrency, there has been a high demand for graphics cards. Nvidia 3080 stocks suffering and so are AMD GPUs. PS5 and Xbox use AMD GPUs for their graphics so that poses some challenges for Sony and could be one of the reasons PS5 is a bit out of stock.