PS5 restock: Sony Direct virtual queue will open in 24 hours – how to finally buy PS5 - TechRadar

Update: The Amazon PS5 restock just happened in the last three hours of Prime Day, and while it was a surprise, we caught it and sent out an alert to the followers of our PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider, who will send you an alert when the Sony console is in stock – if you follow his account and turn on notifications.

There's also a PS5 at Sony Direct restock virtual queue date is later today, June 23, according to Matt Swider.

Here's how to we know there will be a Sony Direct restock on June 22: the official store for the PlayStation brand sent email invites to PSN users (it's done at random, you can't really do anything to increase your chances) for a special 3pm EDT / 12pm PDT virtual queue, and quite a lot of people got the invite this time, according to our exclusive reporting and research (though not as many seemed to have gotten it as last week).

Don't despair if you didn't get an email invite from Sony – the Sony Direct virtual queue has always opened up to the general public at around 5:15pm EDT – there's a waiting room that opens at 5PM EDT.

Previously the Sony Direct restock time was all over the place, but Sony has recently settled on 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT for launching that waiting room right before the virtual queue's yellow progress bar appears.

No one knows for sure how Sony picks people for the invite email (it's vaguely based on "PSN activity", but if you get one, you're almost sure to get a console because that earlier virtual queue time is limited to a small group of buyers

We'll have more advice on the PS5 restock at Sony Direct as the virtual queue opens up