The PS5 is in stock at Walmart… kind of. In an effort to compete with Amazon, Walmart has allowed sellers to set up storefronts on its website in order to sell their products. It turns out that some of those products are PS5 consoles selling for far more than their retail market value, with the PS5 disc version currently listed for over $1000 and the digital going for a hefty $899.
If you visit Walmart’s site and search for a PlayStation 5, you’ll be directed to a couple of pages showing the console currently available for purchase. However, this isn’t a fresh restock of PlayStation 5 consoles from Walmart itself. These are resellers attempting to move the console at far above the $399 and $499 retail values for the digital and disc editions respectively. The disc edition is being sold for just over $1,093 from two sellers, one called Nationwide Distributor and the other called Discount Tech (the irony of the latter’s name is not lost on us). If you should opt for the slightly less expensive digital edition, you’re going to be forking over $899 to Nationwide Distributor for that one. Both are selling for more than double the suggested retail price of the console from Sony.
Curiously, not even Amazon is allowing these kinds of egregious upcharges for the console on its site. Searching for a PS5 on Amazon simply brings up a page that shows “Currently Unavailable,” rather than leasing out the space to resellers looking to make an...