PS5 market is definitely bonkers. After sitting through some of the crazy queues on the playstation site and giving up on direct to consumer I did manage to score one, but it was tedious for a few days getting hammered by every twitter notification from a few of those accounts that watch and post when stock becomes available. When I did land a unit, it wasn't without a price shock of its own as GameStop was selling as bundles. So, yeah I ended up with maybe a couple of games that I would rather not have bought up front and they were pretty close to full retail price.

This was all very, very frustrating. Sony knows I have years of history with them going back to PS3 era. They could throw me a freakin' bone and let me reserve a spot in a queue, even if it was in agreement with a 3rd party retailer - I'd be cool with that. They could manage this situation so much better.

// Not to mention that once I got my unit, the storage evaporated almost immediately. PS5s hold about 5 or 6 "large games" at a time!