Sony estimates the shortage will last to at least mid summer. Here it is almost a lottery to get one. Quite literally so in fact, as some stores have basically taken a lottery approach where you order a ticket and get a chance to buy one in the latest PS5 pool. Honestly, I prefer that approach over the scalping fuckery that has plagued the launchwindow.
They pay for a ticket to get a chance at paying for a PS5?
Here in Finland, every major electronics retailer has launched the lottery thing, where you enter a competition and the winner has a chance to buy a PS5! Even a supermarket chain that sells games and tv's and stuff has that lottery competition now! It's ridiculous.
Xbox Series X also seems to be under lock and key here. One retailer had a grand total of seven added to their inventory in the whole country, and you could not order them. The only way to buy them was to go to the store and ask behind counter. None of them were in my city, so I would have had to drive 2 hours to get to the nearest. And all of them were sold in less than 3 days.
Also I decided to get AC: Valhalla! Coming from Odyssey, things seem very familiar with some big improvements. I love that gear is not tied to a level now. In Odyssey you would find a really cool dagger, and it would be useless half an hour later when you leveled up twice! Love that improvement.
I'm still in Norway, but hopefully I get to England next time I play!