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I can't buy the PS5 Pro – but it's not because I don't want to

Sony needs to fix this PlayStation 5 Pro issue, and fast

Thankfully it’s just come back in stock at some retailers in the US like Walmart, Best Buy, and PlayStation Direct, but we Brits are fresh out of luck and it could sell out again soon. Predictably, Scalpers took advantage of Sony’s questionable stock allocation when the PS5 Pro was announced, making eBay and other resellers the only place to buy the PS5 Disc Drive, albeit for far more than the MSRP. We’ve seen this happen countless times before – and while I can begrudgingly look past it when it comes to limited-edition controllers and consoles that are purposefully scarce by design, being unable to buy a costly hardware add-on that people genuinely need is unacceptable.

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