A retailer cancels some of the pre-orders customers thought they secured for the PlayStation 5 30th Anniversary Edition console.

Retailers, and PS Direct itself, appear to have oversold PlayStation 30th anniversary PS5 / PS5 Pro console and DualSense controllers. We’ve seen enough reports of players having their preorders canceled to deduce that these aren’t isolated incidents,

As beautiful as PS5’s range of 30th anniversary hardware is, limited edition items such as this inevitably always lead to anxiety. Last week, Sony made the PS5 Slim Digital Edition console available to third-party retailers, which resulted in an influx of pre-orders. Unfortunately, UK retailer Argos has screwed them up.

We now only have 52 minutes before PS5 30th Anniversary pre-orders go live at retailers across the US. Walmart and Best Buy are already primed to drop their stock, Amazon's going to be a slightly more hectic dash, and GameStop is still quiet. Get signed in, get that payment information saved, and warm up that refresh button.

PlayStation Direct took pre-orders for the PS5 Pro and the Anniversary Collection last month, with the latter selling out in less than 24 hours. And there has been no restock of the rest of the limited-edition range such as the $999 PS5 Pro bundle.

Everything you need to know to lock in a preorder for a PS5 Digital Console 30th Anniversary Limited Edition, including where it's available, what time preorders go live, and more.

The PlayStation 5 30th Anniversary pre-orders were a bit of a mess last week, at least in the U.S. and some other regions. But Sony seems to be taking a smart tack with fans in Japan, introducing additional requirements for determining who can buy stuff,

Sony Japan is restricting PS5 Pro 30th Anniversary Edition preorders to those with 30 hours of run-time on their PSN accounts.

Pre-orders for the limited edition PlayStation 5 30th Anniversary range will come with an extra layer of scalper protection in Japan, Sony has said, following the rampant relisting of consoles with exorbitant prices on eBay seen elsewhere.