PS5 stock – live: Latest console restock news from Game, AO, John Lewis and more

*Taps microphone* Hello, AO? Are you reading the blog? The retailer has reduced the price of the disc edition console bundle with a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Spider-Man: Miles Morales back down to a much more appealing £570.

It’s still on the expensive side, considering the PS5 costs £449.99, but it’s a better buy than before. If you’re listening AO, drop the standalone console and give the people what they want!

If you order it today, you can get it dispatched as early as Sunday 2 January at the time of writing.

For those of you who have a PS4 or received a PS5 over Christmas,Sony has just announced the free PlayStation Plus games available in January. If you’re a PS Plus subscriber, which you’ll need to be if you want to play online multiplayer games, then you’ll be able to download the below on 4 January.

The first PS4 game you get is Persona 5 Strikers, which is an action RPG game with a worthy Metacritic score of 83. Second is the off-road racing game Dirt 5, which is available on both the PS5 and PS4. The third is the co-op FPS game Deep Rock Galactic, which is also available on both the PS4 and PS5. So if you haven’t got a PS5 yet, you won’t be missing out this January.

You can read more about the games in PlayStation’s blog post.

AO has cheekily put the price up of its PS5 disc edition console bundle with a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Spider-Man: Miles Morales by a whole £50 extra overnight. It now costs an astounding £620 (Ao.com).

It may have been worth buying before, with orders slated to be dispatched on Sunday 2 January, but £620 seems like a harder pill to swallow.

If you want those two games, you can buy this PS5 disc edition bundle from Game, which comes with Miles Morales, Rift Apart, plus some PlayStation merch for just £601.95 (Game.co.uk). The only thing AO has going for it right now is that it will be dispatched this week, rather than towards the end of January.

After a whole week, the PS5 is miraculously still in stock at Game. The reason, we speculate, is because the time between ordering and the console dispatching is incredibly long.

Most consoles are expected to be dispatched on 21 January, with priority insured deliveries – which costs an extra £19.99 , and comes with a replacement console and £50 compensation if your PS5 gets lost in transit, will be dispatched on 7 January.

Goooooood morning PS5 hunters and welcome to another day of console stock tracking. If you weren’t able to bag a console yesterday morning, then you’ll be pleased to know that the PS5 is currently still in stock at Game and AO.

Could we see one more restock before the year is up and we Auld Lang Syne our way into 2022? Let’s hope so. We’ve got our eyes set on Currys at the moment, but typical retailer patterns are currently in flux due to the holiday period.

Nevertheless, we’ll be here all day bringing you the live stock updates as they happen. Let’s go hunting.

Whew, it’s been a pretty busy day today for PS5 restocks! We had the long-awaited John Lewis & Partners in the morning, the Game drop is still trundling on – six days after the initial restock – and AO is also in stock (although you’ll need to – bypass the high demand message to get it into your basket).

Could we see more drops tomorrow from retailers with next day delivery? You’ll have to join us tomorrow to find out. Bye for now!

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Installing an expandable storage on your PS5 can be a little complicated, so if you’re searching for an external hard drive instead, turn to the Seagate 4TB HDD which is now on sale for £84.99, Amazon.co.uk). It received high praise in our review of the best PS5 accessories.

“The Seagate 4TB HDD is designed with PlayStation consoles in mind and is incredibly simple to set up. Effectively, you just plug it in and you’re good to go,” noted our writer.

The extensive storage capacity means it’s possible to store more than 100 PlayStation 4 games, “so you should never run out of room.” As for the design, it’s subtle and can easily be placed among your “TV unit without it looking too noticeable or taking up too much space.”

The PS5 is back in stock at AO and we’ve found an easier way to buy the console (as in much, much easier than the previous method), so you don’t have to use the laborious Inspect trick! You can currently buy the PS5 disc edition console with a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Spider-Man: Miles Morales for £570 (Ao.com).

So how do you bypass that high demand message?

Now open up an incognito window in your browser – this works on all web browsers with an incognito mode or a private browsing mode, including Google Chrome and Safari.

Paste the link into the address bar and voila! The “add to basket” button appears and you can successfully check out with your PS5. The bundle will be dispatched on Monday 3 January at the time of writing.

If you thought cosmic red, midnight black and boring off-white were the only colours the PS5 controllers would ever come in, think again. Three new bright dualsense controller colours are coming to a shop near you very soon! They include pink, blue and purple.

The Sony PlayStation 5 dualsense controller took the top spot in our round-up of the best PS5 accessories, with our writer noting that “besides looking and feeling good, it also has some useful features such as haptic feedback, which is a form of far superior vibration, and a set of trigger buttons that are much more responsive and tactile than previous PlayStation controllers.”

“It’s the natural next step for a PlayStation controller and it’s arguably the best thing about the console. A second one is an essential addition for everyone but the most antisocial player,” they added.

To find out how to pre-order the new controller colourways, have a read of our article below: