The PlayStation 5 launched last November, but months later, it is still difficult to get one, especially in Japan. Earlier today, the megastore Yodobashi Camera Electric in Akihabara, one of the largest in the country, sold a huge shipment of PS5. The world collapsed.
People started pushing and pushing, falling on a Yodobashi clerk who had a stack of about 300 numbered tickets to buy the PS5.
Take a look at the chaos that followed:
The police were called and the sale canceled.
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Why did this happen? Like from Twitter AJapaneseDream points out, Akihabara’s location is apparently just one of two Yodobashi cameras in the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area that does not require the retailer’s black credit card to buy the hardware – a requirement that has apparently been instituted to frustrate retailers .
In addition, contrary to what happened in the past, the store distributed numbered tickets, first come, first served. In the past, also in an effort to discourage console inversion, the retailer distributed the raffle numbers for the chance to buy the hardware.
This created a perfect opportunity for anyone who wanted to buy a PS5 for themselves or even to resell.
Remember that the Japanese government has now declared a state of emergency regarding the new coronavirus. Tokyo has the highest number of cases in the country.
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