was up so far at
walmart - around 15 mins
target - around 30 mins
best buy - another 30-45 mins, hard to say site crashed. I think its still up
gamestop - in store around 10-20 physical, 4-10 digital copies per store. online up now but site is dead due to cloudflare thinking all the visitors are bots
not up at amazon nor direct from Sony.
There WILL be a second wave, gamestop will get another round of preorders in a few days/weeks after they talk to Sony about attach rates and stuff, and Walmart has tweeted out that more PS5 pre orders will go live Sept 22 (same day as xbox).
I'd guess 50-80% of these orders are all being done by cook groups/resellers who want to flip the PS5s. I have no idea what that means for price stability, or what levels there are of supply and demand. Since everywhere takes returns for at least 30 days, possibly longer due to extended holiday returns, you'll see some crazy things around release.
I got in 3 pre orders, 1 digital and 2 physical. Not sure yet in my family how many relatives want, I'm probably gonna keep the digital for myself.
If you can get in some URLs that have it available right now
hope you haven't been wasting too much time on PS5's though china, a bunch of RTX 3080s were in stock at newegg on and off today