The race is on to stop scalping bots from buying every single PS5
Sony / Getty Images / WIRED If you’ve been searching for a PS5 these past months – convinced that the solution to the ennui of lockdown life lies in next-gen gaming – it’s likely that you’ve also made a new, hated enemy: retail bots. For many, attempts to buy the console have followed the same sad pattern. A store, like Argos, Currys PC World or GAME, announces it has new stock. Customers descend on the site – more than 160,000 at once, in the case of Currys – crashing it. When the virtual dust settles, the consoles are gone. Almost instantly, hundreds begin to appear on eBay f...