Poll: PS4/XBO available in your town.

[Lightknight]

I've been calling around for awhile now waiting on a PS4 to show up and I've been getting some interesting answers. For example, I'll call in about a PS4 and they'll tell me that they're out of PS4s but they have XBOs in stock when I didn't even ask about it. I learned yesterday that people were camping out in front of our local Best Buy this past Saturday night to get a ticket to buy a PS4 on Sunday.

So, that got me thinking. What is it like in other cities and states? I've called Best Buy, Walmart, Target, GameStop, Toys R Us, and a local gaming store I prefer to support. Here, most stores have XBOs but no PS4s at all. Also, once they get PS4s most stores even require you purchase a bundle, driving the cost up by $100+ for the ps4 by adding the $60 cost of two or even three games. GameStop has this awful bundle that gives you two games and an additional controller for $150 more than they'd cost if you bought them all seperately. Even Amazon is selling those consoles for hundreds more ($699 for a standard console at the time of this post, $840 for a Battlefield PS+ bundle). And yet still somehow they sell out within a few hours.

I'm not used to people camping out for a console weeks after release either. The Wii had a couple months of stable demand that supplies couldn't meet but I don't recall campers each week in front of stores. I'm also a little suprised that so many XBOs appear to be available with the numbers they've been putting up in the US.

 

[tippy2k2]

I wouldn't say they're "readily" available since many stores are sold out of both consoles.

However, I have been told by co-workers (I have not seen this myself but I also haven't been looking at all) that Xbox One's are available at a handful of locations (the majority of locations are sold-out however so that's why I have "readily" in quotation marks) and PS4's have not been sighted since their arrival.

 

[Lightknight]

I wouldn't say they're "readily" available since many stores are sold out of both consoles.

However, I have been told by co-workers (I have not seen this myself but I also haven't been looking at all) that Xbox One's are available at a handful of locations (the majority of locations are sold-out however so that's why I have "readily" in quotation marks) and PS4's have not been sighted since their arrival.

As stated in the poll title, readily available just means that you could go into a store in town and buy one with relative ease. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're available in every store that sells them. Just that you could get one if you so desired and had the cash.

I see you're from Minnesota. So that's a pretty good distance from Florida (my area). I wonder how similar this is elsewhere.

 

[tippy2k2]

I wouldn't say they're "readily" available since many stores are sold out of both consoles.

However, I have been told by co-workers (I have not seen this myself but I also haven't been looking at all) that Xbox One's are available at a handful of locations (the majority of locations are sold-out however so that's why I have "readily" in quotation marks) and PS4's have not been sighted since their arrival.

As stated in the poll title, readily available just means that you could go into a store in town and buy one with relative ease. It doesn't necessarily mean that they're available in every store that sells them. Just that you could get one if you so desired and had the cash.

I see you're from Minnesota. So that's a pretty good distance from Florida (my area). I wonder how similar this is elsewhere.

I saw that (and voted for Xbox One's available and no PS4's). I just wanted to clarify my states situation. If I wanted to get a Xbox One, it might take me all day of driving around to various locations until I eventually stumbled in on one but if I really really really really really wanted one, I believe I could find one.

 

[Lightknight]

I saw that (and voted for Xbox One's available and no PS4's). I just wanted to clarify my states situation. If I wanted to get a Xbox One, it might take me all day of driving around to various locations until I eventually stumbled in on one but if I really really really really really wanted one, I believe I could find one.

Ah, interesting. I can't call a place about a ps4 without being told about their XBO's. I see someone voted for PS4's available but no XBOs. Wonder who/where that is.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Well, I live in one of the European countries where the XBO release date is still pretty much a question mark, so I'd call that utterly unavailable.

PS4's are not available either in my town, but since it has only one store selling them and that store is now closing permanently, that is not surprising. While not easy, you can scrounge one up if you look around a little in the neighboring cities though.

 

[DanielBrown]

Can only be arsed to check one store(one of the bigger ones) and they're all out of PS4. Next shipment is supposed to come in January. Xbone hasn't come yet it seems. Expected date to come is in the end of June. ._o
Live in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

[Drummodino]

If you watched the latest Zero Punctuation, you'll know that PS4s are quite difficult to acquire in Auatralia presently.

As far as I'm aware though Xboxes are still available.

 

[Evonisia]

Near where I live both are kinda hard to come across, the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One in the UK, but it doesn't mean that Xbox One is available everywhere. I live in England which was utterly Xbox 360 dominated last gen, the Xbox One is still strong but has now been bested.

When I go into Liverpool I haven't seen either of them much, really. Good luck trying to order a PS4.

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

I do live in a cave, but luckily I have internet down here! So I checked out their availability in the store where people went nuts [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/130124-See-Germans-Go-Insane-Over-PS4-Launch].
Xbone: available in 4-7 days
PS4: unavailable, no further date given

Now, back to painting those walls...

 

[Strain42]

The Target I work at has SEVERAL Xbox Ones. I know they do because I'm the one who had to unload the well over 100 of the bastards off the trucks, and when packed in boxes they are quite heavy and frustrating. Don't let them tell you otherwise! If you don't see any on the shelf then DEMAND they go into the back room and get one for you! DON'T PRETEND YOU DON'T HAVE THEM, TARGET I WORK AT!!!

 

[ZCAB]

It is estimated that there won't be any PS4s available in physical stores in my country until about March or April (at least that's the consensus, don't know who deduced it or how), and even online stores have sold out until January.
The Xbox One isn't even released here yet.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Since I live in a supposed "third world country", we usually get these new consoles very late. I remember seeing a PS3 3-4 years after it released in my town at least so it's very much not readily available. Sure I could preorder it from Bucharest (the capital) but locally there is absolutely no chance to get one.

Good thing I'm a PC gamer so I really don't care about either.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Here in NZ

Mightyape - Xbone - Available -- PS4 - Not available
EBGames(Gamespot) - Xbone Available -- PS4 -- Not available

That basically answers it as far as our entire country is concerned.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Low stock, recent negative reviews, and generally bad business, had driven Save-a'-Center to not give a shit.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Right now, the Target I work at has at least 4 PS4's (not being sold until Sunday Morning) and I swear, yesterday the store went from having 1 Xbox One to 5. There are a number being held in the back also for Sunday/ last-sales-week-before X-Mas. I was going to say "readily available" for both but it's only really the Wii U and, Xbox One that are readily available.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Xbox One release is still TBA for my country. The local toy store still had a couple of PS4's available. Seems to be a rarity, though.

 

[Irridium]

I haven't bothered checking really. But a quick glance at the games section in Best Buy shows there were Xbone remotes available, and no PS4 ones.

So if you were looking for a status update on the controllers, there's your hilariously so-specific-it's-worthless factoid.