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Word is, possibly tomorrow at select retailers. And if you're preordering through Sony, possibly tomorrow, but it's by invitation.
Personally going through Amazon so hope I get an order in before they are sold out
 

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Personally going through Amazon so hope I get an order in before they are sold out
I probably will be focusing on pre-ordering the Series X and, if I don't happen to succeed with the giveaway, I'll be getting the PS5 either around my birthday or possibly around holiday 2021.
 

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I probably will be focusing on pre-ordering the Series X and, if I don't happen to succeed with the giveaway, I'll be getting the PS5 either around my birthday or possibly around holiday 2021.
Make sure to do the financing option that is a awesome deal to make up for any lack of game exclusives.
 

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Make sure to do the financing option that is a awesome deal to make up for any lack of game exclusives.
The financing thing just gets me low monthly payments since I'm already a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber. Plus, since I'm going to be trading up, likely through Gamestop since the Gamestop closest to me is doing solid business with no announced closures in my area, I'd also be looking at $125 knocked off the price before taxes.
 

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Wasn't figuring that it would be live today. A couple of journalistic sources tweeted that preorders would be live as early as tomorrow. And the official PlayStation Twitter also seemed to confirm that. Whereas preorders for the next-gen Xboxes go live on Tuesday.
 
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Wasn't figuring that it would be live today. A couple of journalistic sources tweeted that preorders would be live as early as tomorrow. And the official PlayStation Twitter also seemed to confirm that. Whereas preorders for the next-gen Xboxes go live on Tuesday.
You would think that they would announce the preorders during their stream instead of doing what they said they would not do and randomly dropping them
 

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I mean Xbox also randomly dropped them because the information was leaked and they couldn't do anything but drop the preorder dates.
 
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That said, looks like I called the prices for both models of the PS5. After newest that they were scrambling to be more competitive after the price point reveal of the Series S/X, they were probably originally thinking at least $100 more expensive, which would've been ridiculous since, on paper, it's the weaker of the two between at least Series X and PS5. Still really good specs, but if it ended up coming out more expensive, unless they had an absolute powerhouse launch line up, they would've been in the same space as the Xbox One when it launched.
 
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And that scrambling probably led to them giving up profitability on what's in the box for the console, since each package comes with a gamepad and they're already pricing the gamepad at about $90.
 
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I am because I'm primarily using it as a media device and the games are secondary. My PC is my preferred go to system.
 

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are you guys going to pre-order the physical disk drive ps5?
Digital personally and anyhow to note pre-order is live at Best Buy sadly not an Amazon though yet
 

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Now the digital edition is live and physical is not lol. Apparently they are selling quickly