Amazon PlayStation 5 customers report receiving toys, cat food, or simply nothing at all

Imagine securing a PlayStation 5 for launch day, anxiously waiting for your console to arrive, then opening its box to find... a kitchen appliance instead. Or cat food. Or nothing ever being delivered at all, despite your order being marked as completed.

That's what has happened to a number of Amazon UK customers over the past 24 hours, in a situation which has left people trying to get a refund, and with PS5 stock severely limited, the task of finding a console all over again.

The first sporadic reports of the wrong items being delivered initially seemed too unlikely to be true - but they kept on appearing, late into last night, before the issue started to blow up more widely today. Additionally, within Eurogamer, we've now heard from friends and colleagues personally affected.

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