The PS5 and Xbox restock at Walmart was a crushing marathon – when to look next PS5 restock

• March 4, 2021

Update: The largest Walmart restock of PS5 and Xbox Series X in 20211 is over, and the US retailer is now sold out. However, it took two-and-a-half-hour sales marathon ended with some very happy customers and others bitter missing the PS5.

We got early word about this PS5 restock, and soon learned that the new Xbox was also going to be back in stock. With our Twitter tracker, we send everyone alerts in order to prepare to buy the console. About 12% of our replies were positive after the Walmart PS5 drop, yet far more people were successful at GameStop and ANTonline.

We encourage you to join the ranks and follow us on Twitter for the next restock, so we can tell you exactly when it.

Our tracker will tell you exactly when and where to look for PS5 and Xbox next with live updates, but we can already anticipate that Best Buy is due. it did a console drop last Friday and the Friday before that. So we’re keeping our eye out on tomorrow.

How the Walmart PS5 and Xbox restock worked

New Xbox restock time price
The Xbox restock went on sale at 2:30pm EST and you won’t have to go through the Microsoft Xbox All Access financing plan this time around. 

“I can confirm that this restock is for the standalone console, not All Access pass,” a Walmart spokesperson told TechRadar this afternoon.

PS5 restock time and price
The PS5 stock went sale at 3:00pm EST, 30 minutes after the Xbox restock and it cost $399 and $499 for the PS5 Digital and Disc versions respectively. Unlike other retailers, Walmart didn’t stick you with bundles. That’s both good and bad (the lower barrier to entry attracts more resellers).

How to get our Twitter tracker alert
This is the sort of Twitter notification to look out for when the console drops happen:

3. PS5 restock US list (if you missed Walmart)

3. How Walmart restocks work: don’t give up

We had a few pieces of advice: Keep refreshing and keep trying to hammer that Add to cart button. You will see it go out of stock three or four times once every 10 to 15 minutes. It’ll suddenly say the PS5 will be back in stock at 3:10pm. Don’t take that first delay as an answer. But refresh more often than the 10 to 15 minute intervals.

Try multiple devices: phone, tablet, several browsers – both the mobile app and the web have had different results for people. Persistence and variety will help.

Basically, refresh the website, tap add to cart, refresh, add to cart until it actually goes in. If it’s sold out, keep trying, as it’ll comes back in waves.

We sent out an instant alert about the Amazon PS5 restock via our Twitter tracker, and we plan to do the same for Walmart today. Amazon on Wednesday had the console in stock – it had been 15 days since the retailer had new PS5 stock and it’s the easiest retailer to check out from, so it went out of stock in about two minutes. 

Remember, the time and date for restock is never truly known. These big box stores in America do gravitate toward launching new stock during the same time window, though, according to our PS5 restock Twitter tracker.

Through Twitter, we’re tracking the next PS5 stock from more than 12 sources, and we’ve seen a few PS5 consoles pop up over the last week and, even better news, high success rates for people who have been looking for restock for months. 

Even if you don’t get to buy the console today, there may be a PS5 drop any one of the days in the upcoming week.

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Update: The largest Walmart restock of PS5 and Xbox Series X in 20211 is over, and the US retailer is now sold out. However, it took two-and-a-half-hour sales marathon ended with some very happy customers and others bitter missing the PS5. We got early word about this PS5 restock, and…