Yeah it is madness.
Here at Finland my experiences:
Retailer 1, big company that sells internet/phone connections + lot of phones and other stuff: yesterday I refreshed their site every 5-10 minutes, then after one refresh I saw PS5DE but standard were sold out, on forums they said it took less than a minute to sell them out
Retailer 2, biggest electronics store chain. Said preorders start today at 10:00, started to F5 at 9:55, then saw the "order now"-button activated, clicked one to the basket, took 20-30s to choose payment+shipping = item is sold out, cant order it. Others said they got theirs by clicking stuff randomly, sold out less than minute
retailer 3, second biggest electronics store chain. Said that today they take orders, no time. Refreshed their page like a maniac after retailer 2 failed. Saw PS5s to be active, ordered 2 standard editions. few minutes later: sold out
retailer 4, big/one of biggest company that sells phones and connections + also consoles/tvs etc. Checked their site at 12:00, pre-orders started, ordered 1 from them. around 12:02 maybe they were sold out.
Not many bigger ones left, rest have taken orders for months / year with place holder price.
tl;dr most retailers sold out here in less than a minute and all didnt even tell when it they will start to take pre-orders
PS4 were sold out too but I think it took more like hours or maybe even a day? and were difficult/impossible to find in first 2-3 months.
So maybe ps5 will be even harder to find.
Also retailer 1 representative told on forums that they could not get any xbox series x or s on launch, first batch is expected earliers at january 2021.
So it looks like xbox have lower amount of units or they focus on their main areas and dont care about countries with 80% of ps4 gamers
