The launch of PlayStation 5 may have been a marketing success, but it was certainly not a laudable operation from a logistical point of view. The consoles produced are still decidedly less than those requested by players, a fact that provoked real virtual assaults on the shops that were selling them online before stocks ran out. The sale out a few days ago was followed by the resale of consoles at astronomical prices on second-hand e-commerce sites, while a new wave of available consoles is causing tens of thousands of people in Italy to face virtual queues on the sites of electronics chains.

Since the launch of PlayStation 5 last month, in order to manage the influx of potential buyers in an orderly manner, some retail chains have used a virtual queue system to progressively arrange the requests of each individual. Euronics has put up for sale in the last few hours a new, undetermined number of consoles using this system, which however quickly generated endless queues. As his colleague Davide Leoni recounts on Everyeye, the queues came to count more than 90,000 people at the same time, waiting not to be able to get their hands on the console, but simply to access the pages dedicated to e-commerce.

In other reports, the number approaches 120,000, but the result is the same: the waits are long and, given the high influx of users, not always profitable. There was a constant risk of pages collapsing, making some people make login errors after a certain amount of time in the queue. The situation did not change even after the new stock was depleted. Against a page on the Euronics site with the words "PlayStation 5 quantities are finished", the queue to access the e-commerce pages still stands at more than 60,000 people.

Source: 45seconds