The 'I've successfully ordered a PS5' thread

RGARDINR · 17-11-2020 05:56PM

I see news story on skynews its getting worse about orders backlogged at ports in England saying xbox series x and new ps5 are getting delayed in containers over there marked for UK and Ireland

DaveyDave · 17-11-2020 06:01PM

kirkfx wrote: »

I can sympathize with people missing the midnight preorders, but Smyths advertised their 2nd round in advance. What's your plan if Argos gets stock? Rock up to the shop at 9am?

If somewhere has stock I'll place an order and wait. I'd like to get one at launch but chances are slim to none, it makes no difference to me as I'm in no rush. I just think anyone who didn't manage to get a pre-order should still have a chance at getting one but people seem to disagree. It's not a big deal.

Atomic Pineapple · 17-11-2020 06:04PM

CSF wrote: »

Yeah, I mean someone was always gonna end up without it if there was more demand than supply. First come first served is arguably the fairest solution.

If only it was actually first come, first served. Smyth's website shat itself and inexplicably allowed people who were later to the game secure one at the expense of people who were ready and waiting.

Board Walker · 17-11-2020 06:22PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

If somewhere has stock I'll place an order and wait. I'd like to get one at launch but chances are slim to none, it makes no difference to me as I'm in no rush. I just think anyone who didn't manage to get a pre-order should still have a chance at getting one but people seem to disagree. It's not a big deal.

Smyths and game stop were the only two taking pre orders as far as im aware? its not like they are the only two in the country going to get them, i imagine the rest's business does not largely hang on game consoles so they will sell what they are given. Tho i assume what they will be given is quite small.

Exclamation Marc · 17-11-2020 06:25PM

RGARDINR wrote: »

I see news story on skynews its getting worse about orders backlogged at ports in England saying xbox series x and new ps5 are getting delayed in containers over there marked for UK and Ireland

That article mentions the PlayStation and XBox in passing only noting that Sony and Microsoft have mentioned they will be hard to come by. I think that was a handy sub-headline to draw attention

I don't think it'll have much impact on this week's pre-orders in any event.

Kanney · 17-11-2020 06:26PM

RGARDINR wrote: »

I see news story on skynews its getting worse about orders backlogged at ports in England saying xbox series x and new ps5 are getting delayed in containers over there marked for UK and Ireland

Ye are killing yourselves with this speculation

RGARDINR · 17-11-2020 06:30PM

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

That article mentions the PlayStation and XBox in passing only noting that Sony and Microsoft have mentioned they will be hard to come by. I think that was a handy sub-headline to draw attention

I don't think it'll have much impact on this week's pre-orders in any event.

Ohh yeah that's fine more if stock might of came in before Xmas and yeah ha probably click bait seeing xbox and ps5 mentioned ha got me reading it.

rach784 · 17-11-2020 06:31PM

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

SomeSayKos · 17-11-2020 06:34PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

Standard North Pole procedure is to not update the system software so I would leave it.

thorbarry · 17-11-2020 06:38PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

Depends how fast your Internet is, also will he be playing online games? If so he will have to update that game before playing. Servers could be overloaded and downloads could be slow on Christmas day.

Honestly if it was me I'd have it all updated and ready to go. I'd even plug it in Christmas eve to be sure

Exclamation Marc · 17-11-2020 06:39PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

Update on Christmas Day I would say. You could find yourselves updating it multiple times before Christmas to find a further update due on the day. Get it set up early on Christmas Day and it shouldn't take too long - I've read Sony have worked on download speeds for updates.

CSF · 17-11-2020 06:41PM

DaveyDave wrote: »

If somewhere has stock I'll place an order and wait. I'd like to get one at launch but chances are slim to none, it makes no difference to me as I'm in no rush. I just think anyone who didn't manage to get a pre-order should still have a chance at getting one but people seem to disagree. It's not a big deal.

They absolutely should, but there was none left after pre-orders.

billybonkers · 17-11-2020 06:43PM

Just got a text from Smyth's to say

Your Smyths Toys parcel has been on boarded by our courier and is scheduled for delivery today!!

At 17.37pm. Surely it won't be out this evening

DPD link still says Order data received from sender

CSF · 17-11-2020 06:43PM

Atomic Pineapple wrote: »

If only it was actually first come, first served. Smyth's website shat itself and inexplicably allowed people who were later to the game secure one at the expense of people who were ready and waiting.

I didn’t know that. Certainly a bad scenario. Don’t really know how they could have fixed it to make it legit first come first served once the website went wonky.

Varik · 17-11-2020 06:44PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

The PS5 has a start up sequence that it only does the first time, it's nothing special but he might notice and you'd need to sign in to download any game he owns already or that are free.

Updates are a great way to force family time.

Honestly depends on your internet connection.

HolyMackerel · 17-11-2020 06:46PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

Mightn't be the same for everyone, some might say update, some will say not to.

Personally, when "Santa" brought me my playstation 1, I woke up on Christmas morning to it already plugged in and hooked up and ready to play. I was ecstatic. I'd imagine nowadays you'll lose some initial magic if you've to wait an hour or two to download updates. If you're in the countryside with crap internet, even worse again.

That being said, at 11 I would be surprised if he didn't know. I found out at 8 and milked it for good presents for the following 3-4 years until I was found out lol

Giblet · 17-11-2020 06:52PM

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

If Smyths have 2000 consoles to sell, there is absolutely no benefit to selling 1750 and holding back 250 (as an example), particularly in Covid.

Get the pre-orders and sales recorded and allocate them all. Ending up with unsold consoles (albeit unlikely) doesn't serve anyone.

Yeah they don't do this, they want to sell it!

They allocate using the PRE order numbers and all of those orders are tagged as pre-orders. They have stock counts for those they can change separately than the "normal" stock counts. All stock counts do have a threshold of reserved stock though, to prevent overselling, issues with warehouse etc, but it's usually a small percentage, and once things quiet down, they issue those into the normal pre-order stock count. The system that allocate stock basically gets all orders with that item, ordered by date, grouped by Pre-Order being active or not. It's why they don't allow you to mix other items with it.

Normal stock count also has a threshold too, and they will set those values when they are ready to release to the normal population, and all pre-orders are fulfilled.

Source: I wrote the previous version of this check, I doubt it's changed much.

Varik · 17-11-2020 06:54PM

HolyMackerel wrote: »

Mightn't be the same for everyone, some might say update, some will say not to.

Personally, when "Santa" brought me my playstation 1, I woke up on Christmas morning to it already plugged in and hooked up and ready to play. I was ecstatic. I'd imagine nowadays you'll lose some initial magic if you've to wait an hour or two to download updates. If you're in the countryside with crap internet, even worse again.

That being said, at 11 I would be surprised if he didn't know. I found out at 8 and milked it for good presents for the following 3-4 years until I was found out lol

Don't know if I'm right but I'd put money on a kid today wanting to unbox it themselves.

I'm far from a kid but I just watched an unboxing video for something I've no intention or need to ever own.

billybonkers · 17-11-2020 06:58PM

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

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HolyMackerel · 17-11-2020 06:58PM

Varik wrote: »

Don't know if I'm right but I'd put money on a kid today wanting to unbox it themselves.

I'm far from a kid but I just watched an unboxing video for something I've no intention or need to ever own.

Depends on the kid I'd say, some will want to dig in immediately and others will want to unbox and know it's brand new. It's hard to judge I'd say!

extrafluff · 17-11-2020 07:04PM

Varik wrote: »

Don't know if I'm right but I'd put money on a kid today wanting to unbox it themselves.

I'm far from a kid but I just watched an unboxing video for something I've no intention or need to ever own.

I'd agree with this. Especially as nowadays there's so many unboxing videos that most kids would tend to watch. My nephew tends to watch more people playing or talking about games than he does playing them himself. He's 12.

Grumpypants · 17-11-2020 07:21PM

billybonkers wrote: »

Just got a text from Smyth's to say

Your Smyths Toys parcel has been on boarded by our courier and is scheduled for delivery today!!

At 17.37pm. Surely it won't be out this evening

DPD link still says Order data received from sender

All round to Billy's gaff for a go.

RoyalCelt · 17-11-2020 07:26PM

CSF wrote: »

The GameStop lack of communication is bizarre. They keep posting ads on social media for various things and it’s just people fuming at them.

It’s as if they don’t realise that there are now countless other ways for people to buy games etc in the future, and that people are now gonna order elsewhere instead.

Given that in reality they obviously do realise that, is why I’m worried that there is gonna be legitimate problems with the dispatch and that they’re aware of this already.

TBH after paying off my controller and Gamestop ignoring my attempts to have it shipped I probably will go with Smyths in future. Headphones and charging station sent out from them last week no hassle at all.

TheWatcher182 · 17-11-2020 07:27PM

RoyalCelt wrote: »

TBH after paying off my controller and Gamestop ignoring my attempts to have it shipped I probably will go with Smyths in future. Headphones and charging station sent out from them last week no hassle at all.

Also, GameStop are away more expensive for games! Only ever go them as last resort. Preference is always Smyths or Argos

Zero-Cool · 17-11-2020 07:28PM

Grumpypants wrote: »

All round to Billy's gaff for a go.

The courier is definitely opening it tonight to play the bollox off it.

17-11-2020 07:32PM

rach784 wrote: »

would anybody have any idea how long the updates take for a new console, I have a pre order with smyths for my 11 year old son for christmas, we are border line as to weather he still believes (Santa) or not, debating about trying to open and update before christmas or do I leave as it is and update Christmas day..
any thoughts??

I would update beforehand, but not til closer to the date. On Christmas day there's going to be a lot of people hitting Sony's servers at the same time for updates. It will be slow.

If you are careful and remember how it was packed you should be able to box it back up like new. An 11-year old won't really notice if the cable ties etc are not perfect.

DaisyDLady · 17-11-2020 07:39PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I would update beforehand, but not til closer to the date. On Christmas day there's going to be a lot of people hitting Sony's servers at the same time for updates. It will be slow.

If you are careful and remember how it was packed you should be able to box it back up like new. An 11-year old won't really notice if the cable ties etc are not perfect.

Totally agree.
Was a complete **** show with ps4 Christmas morning, servers crashed for days .

And also a good idea to have 1 game on disk , for fear servers crash and you cant buy digital .

DaveyDave · 17-11-2020 07:42PM

TheWatcher182 wrote: »

Also, GameStop are away more expensive for games! Only ever go them as last resort. Preference is always Smyths or Argos

Smyths and Argos are always €5-10 cheaper. The €5 pre-order discount in Smyth's is good for games I know I'm getting on day one. Don't know why people shop in GameStop.

dan786 · 17-11-2020 07:43PM

So both Gamestop and Amazon have not dispatched them yet, so possibility of getting it launch day looking slim especially from Amazon

CSF · 17-11-2020 07:47PM

RoyalCelt wrote: »

TBH after paying off my controller and Gamestop ignoring my attempts to have it shipped I probably will go with Smyths in future. Headphones and charging station sent out from them last week no hassle at all.

Absolutely. I’d been ordering from them exclusively during Covid under some misguided belief that they were the most reliable. No reason to now.

The 'I've successfully ordered a PS5' thread

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