Walmart PS5 and Xbox Series X restock live updates: PS5 shoppers are 0-2 at Walmart

Well, Walmart goofed – again! It had a PS5 and Xbox Series X restock at 4pm EDT that never actually took place. It seems as if not even the bots were able to check out, despite the promise that both Sony and Microsoft consoles would be on sale.

This time it seems like website errors made it for that the newly designed Walmart queue for buying consoles was never activated. You would think that if Walmart was going to promise to have PS5 and Xbox Series X in stock after yesterday’s shenanigans, it wouldn’t launch new orders until it fixed its website glitches. But Walmart had different ideas it hasn’t explained.

TechRadar has reached out to Walmart for comment.

Some of the questions we’ve answered in the ongoing YouTube live stream already:

• You don’t need Walmart Plus as far as we can tell to order this PS5 and Xbox restock.
• Yes, the Xbox Series X is due to be in stock at Walmart today, too.
• Walmart doesn’t sell bundles, so everything is at MSRP.
• Will Walmart restock in waves? Unlikely, the new ordering process we saw yesterday gave us a sneak peek at a queue (like Sony Direct when buying PS5), so that means you won’t need to refresh once you’re ‘in line’.
• It’s online only, so don’t go to your local Walmart store at the posted time of 4pm EDT. That won’t help your chances with this PS5 restock.

Well, it’s deja vu all over again, as there’s another Walmart PS5 restock today at 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT. Perhaps this is Walmart’s way of making up for the fact that very few people could actually check out with the Sony PlayStation console yesterday.

This restock is happening one hour later than yesterday’s PS5 restock time. But it should use the same process that has you sit in a Walmart queue and hopefully see the PS5 in stock at the very (unlike the console restock yesterday).

Here’s the PS5 and Xbox Series X live stream video

We’re live streaming a Q&A about the Walmart PS5 restock disaster (and also Xbox Series X if you click the video above. It was a doozy if you tried to buy a console today. The Walmart pages ran into a serious refresh error after things seemed so hopeful.

Oops. Walmart had a lot of problems on its page today and just about everyone was setup to be disappointed with the results. We haven’t seen more than a dozen people end up with the console during this online restock.

Looks like we’re going to have to do a PS5 and Xbox Series X live stream because the consoles will be in stock at Walmart at two different times today, with the retailer suddenly adding the top-tier new Xbox to the mix (before it was only the PS5 that was to be for sale today).

It’ll likely be exclusive to Walmart Plus members at 3pm EDT / 12pm EDT, although Walmart hasn’t actually said (unless their tweet was a mistake because it currently says Wednesday).

People keep asking if it’ll be Walmart Plus-only. Here’s the answer:

So far, we haven’t seen Walmart indicate that people need to purchase the Walmart Plus membership, which costs about $98 when paid annually or $13 a month. It’s a bit cheaper than Amazon Prime and comes with free next-day and two-day shipping without minimums. Only once did Walmart require this for a PS5 restock (last week).

Note this Walmart PS5 restock is online-only and not being sold in stores.

Walmart PS5 restock today just announced – we’re live blogging it

Walmart just announced that the PS5 will be in stock today at 3pm EDT / 12 pm EDT. At that specific time, we should see PS5 restock Twitter tracker Matt Swider send out an alert leading to the Walmart product pages for both the PS5 Disc and PS5 Digital consoles at prices of $499 and $399 respectively.