{"id":197529,"date":"2021-12-10T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/can-t-find-a-playstation-5-console-there-are-supplies-in-gaza"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:21:32","slug":"can-t-find-a-playstation-5-console-there-are-supplies-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/can-t-find-a-playstation-5-console-there-are-supplies-in-gaza","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t find a PlayStation 5 console? There are supplies in &#8230; Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is surrounded on all sides, regularly bombed, and plagued by shortages of vital medicines. Yet in the lead up to Christmas, the isolated Gaza Strip has &#8211; for once &#8211; ample supplies of something the rest of the world craves but can rarely find: a brand new PlayStation 5 . Sony&#8217;s flagship video game console is hot property this holiday season, although most people who have asked for one will be sorely disappointed on Christmas morning. A global supply-chain crisis twinned with a shortage of semiconductors &#8211; vital computer chips used in the console &#8211; has kept stock scarce. While secondhand, resold and stolen PS5s can be found, they are rare and often cost much more than the &#163;359-&#163;449 retail price tag. In downtown Gaza City, the price is also way above the official figure. Still, unused PS5s can be seen in a few shop windows. Related: One toy&#8217;s journey through the supply chain crisis: from Chinese factory to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockaded strip is short on medicine and cement but has shelves of coveted PS5s, which elsewhere sell out in seconds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,107],"tags":[278,34,178],"class_list":["post-197529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-video-games","tag-playstation","tag-technology","tag-video-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}