GameStop will be selling PlayStation 5 console bundles online today

GameStop will be selling PlayStation 5 console bundles online on Wednesday.

The US retailer confirmed the upcoming stock availability in a message sent to customers including Twitter user Wario64.

“A very limited number of PlayStation 5 console bundles will be available today—online only—and will go live soon,” it said.

“Be sure to clear your cart, get logged in and be ready to go.”

Sony has reportedly told analysts that it expects PS5 consoles to be in short supply until next year.

“I don’t think demand is calming down this year and even if we secure a lot more devices and produce many more units of the PlayStation 5 next year, our supply wouldn’t be able to catch up with demand,” CFO Hiroki Totoki said at an analyst briefing last week, according to Bloomberg.

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Publicly PlayStation is offering a more hopeful outlook on PS5 supply. “We’re working as hard as we can to ameliorate that situation,” Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Jim Ryan told Wired in an article published on Wednesday.

“We see production ramping up over the summer and certainly into the second half of the year, and we would hope to see some sort of return to normality in terms of the balance between supply and demand during that period.”

Totoki said last month that Sony was considering various solutions to help it cope with global chip shortages, including potentially altering hardware designs or sourcing secondary suppliers.

Sony will reportedly start production on a PS5 hardware redesign in 2022. That’s according to Taiwanese business website DigiTimes, which claims that suppliers including semiconductor foundry TSMC are planning to start producing the redesigned PS5 console between the second and third quarters of next year.