Walmart surprises customers with free PS5 upgrade

Walmart surprises customers with gratuitous PS5 upgrade

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If you managed to purchase a PS5 Digital Edition on July 17 from Walmart, you lot may want to cheque your emails as the retailer appears to be offering customers a complimentary upgrade to the total disc-drive equipped PS5.

Francisco Gonzalez tweeted a image of an email he got from Walmart promising an incoming upgrade and apologizing for not having more of the Digital Edition console in stock.

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"The PlayStation v is such a hot detail we sold more of the exact version you ordered than we had on hand," the email to Gonzalez explained. "We idea you lot deserved an upgrade, and then nosotros're sending a PS5 with a disc drive – no extra charge! Nothing else has changed and you'll all the same receive your order on time."

The disc drive is the merely functional difference between the two consoles, then this modify doesn't actually make much difference to the affected customers.

Walmart confirmed that at that place volition be no commitment delays, and both versions of the PS5 play the exact same games in the exact same way. It simply means they get the selection of buying games on disc, instead of only existence able to purchase from the PlayStation Store.

It too means these customers got the more expensive PS5 console for $100 less than the $499 retail price.

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