While the PS5, released last November, is still rare on merchant sites and in stores, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sony factories, American players have received from the Japanese giant an invitation email to order the console.

Enough to give hope for a restocking.

Since its release, the PlayStation 5 has been playing the Arlésiennes.

Highly in demand, Sony's new console is trickling down to merchant sites, and lots are flowing at lightning speed.

Released in November 2020, during containment, the console was already no longer available in any store when the essential shops reopened, all of the stocks having passed through online sales.

Impacted by the pandemic, the manufacturer's factories are struggling to keep pace with pre-orders.

But, in an interview with GQ on February 23, Jim Ryan, head of Sony's video game division, assured that the situation was about to improve.

A handful of invitation emails, received by several players in recent hours, even suggest that restocking is imminent.

If officially Sony has still not communicated a date for a massive supply of merchant sites, on social networks, several Internet users claim to have received an email from the firm, with a unique link, on which to click at a specific time, with a view to to be able to order a PS5 from the PlayStation Direct site.

This is particularly the case of @ Wario64, whose Twitter post has been widely used on several sites specializing in video games.

It looks like Sony is doing invitations again to order a PS5 on PS Direct tomorrow.

They did this back in September https://t.co/r4kMX1NLG8

- Wario64 (@ Wario64) March 15, 2021

Invitations reserved for Americans only?

Last August, Sony invited American gamers to register on its site to hope to acquire a PS5.

Among them, a few lucky ones chosen by lot had been offered to be able to pre-order the precious console.

But this mini-contest was only reserved for players residing in the United States.

The website specializing in multimedia products Tom's Guide indicates that, again, the invitation emails recently sent appear to have been received only by American players.

And there is nothing to determine with certainty the criteria used by Sony to select the players concerned.

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In any case, going through personalized invitations would be a way for the Japanese firm to bypass the scalpers, these Internet users who buy dozens of consoles online as soon as the PS5 appears on a merchant site, to then resell them at a high price. .