That's something that people who have no interest in buying one say - because if you did, you'd find that they have been in stock for months from various retailers and it's not an issue to buy one at all.
That is completely false. Stop repeating this. Entire Reddit groups and Twitter accounts exist to track restocks, eg r/CanadaPS5.
You can say that when that's true for all global markets.
ah, fair enough.. I gave up on trying to buy a PS5 about six months ago when I "won" the Newegg Shuffle and bought an RTX 3080 TI at a huge markup
Out of a whim, I checked the Playstation store, and they actually had the PS5 in stock. I'm paying some extra for the blu-ray edition with Horizon bundle, but it's still cheaper than scalpers.
I and two of my friends bought PS5s. It took some effort, but it wasn’t too bad. We all got them within a month of deciding to buy. I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying though, you have to find an opportunity to buy and then make the right moves to get one.
Bought one a year ago here in Australia - went to an IRL retailer (!) who said they would put us on the list for their next shipment. About a week later, we got it.