Over the weekend, a store in Tokyo put PS5 consoles on sale for in-person purchaജse, and things went very badly wrong.

As chronicled by Creatures Inc.'s Dave Gibson just below (and first reported by ), the in-person sale of PS5 consoles at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, Tokyo was overwhelmed by demand. It got so bad that the cash registers and staff "went backwards," as Gibson writes below, due to the swarming crowds that gathered there in the hopes of being able to purchase Sony's next-gen console.

. The State✤ of Emergency decrees that residents work at home when able to, and trips out be limited to essential outings only, hence why the police were eventually called to break up the surging crow꧅ds at the PS5 sale from Yodobashi Camera.

You'd think that in-person PS5 sales would be a rarity, but Gibson claims they're happening "." He reckons that will stop aꦆfter the events at Yodobashi Camera, however, and also e𒊎stimates upwards of 70% of the crowd you can see in the video above were resellers, looking to sell on the console for a profit.

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