Putting any new console on reserve before an army of opportunistic bots can be challenging, but these tips can help.

Mashable reached out to Sony to find out whether the company expects the PS5 Pro to sell out quickly at launch since initial availability is limited to one retailer, and if it had any plans to avoid inventory shortages. At the time of writing, we hadn't heard back.

PlayStation Direct will be the only retailer taking pre-orders today (the lone exception will be the DualSense 30th Anniversary Edition, which will be available at “participating retailers), so make sure you have a PlayStation Network account set up (and if you don't go make one, right now), and then follow our live updates.