PS5 consoles will be on sale at some GameStop stores on Friday

GameStop will be selling PlayStation 5 consoles at some of its stores this Friday, October 22.

“Select stores will have limited quantities of PS5 bundles available for purchase across Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, and Boston,” according to the retailer.

You can check if your local store is participating by entering your chosen city or zip code on GameStop’s website.

GameStop regularly makes limited PS5 and Xbox Series X console bundles available to purchase online.

Two PS5 bundles were sold online earlier on Tuesday, although access to the consoles was reserved for GameStop Pro members for the first hour.

In late September, US retailer Best Buy sold limited quantities of PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles in stores for the first time this year, attracting large queues at numerous locations.

On Monday, market research firm the NPD Group said PS5 had ended Nintendo Switch’s long-running streak as the US market’s best-selling console.

Prior to September, Nintendo’s system was the best-selling console in the US for a record 33 consecutive months based on units sold.

But PS5 took the crown in both unit and dollar sales last month after Sony was able to make “a big number” of the supply constrained console available to consumers, according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella.

Despite some recent signs of increased availability, PS5 is expected to remain hard to come by for some time yet given ongoing challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The boss of AMD, which makes the CPUs and GPUs inside PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, recently said she expects chip supply issues to ease gradually in the second half of 2022.

US-based consumers hoping to purchase a PS5 console can now register their interest directly with Sony for a chance to do so. The company is making a limited number of PS5 consoles available for customers in the US to purchase directly from PlayStation this holiday season.