There's Gamestop in Switzerland? You learn something new about your country every day...

Yes, there actually is a Gamtop shop here in the town I live. I often wondered if that is simply a shop calling itself "Gamestop" or if this shop is a subsidy/franchise/whatever of "Gamestop"

But more to the point:

Given there is no manufacturing plant in Europe for the PS5, I'd call this Gamestop employee slightly confused...

Yeah, there are several gamestop stores in Switzerland. But I'll try the other shops you've mentioned. Thanks!

I haven't got the impression that the guy at gamestop was talking something wrong. I worked many years as a salesman and I think I can hear if someone tells something out of the blue.

I wasn't in a hurry so far to get a PS5, but now I have about 5 games on my watchlist and with Gran Turismo 7 things become serious ^^

I use to love Gamestop... especially when it was still Funcoland. But then their employees were replaced by robots and became self-aware sometime in the mid-00's. After that, I quit going there.

They don't manufacture these consoles in Europe.

Thus there is no production to stop.

From my experience, I can tell you that manufacturers never go into such details when communicating with their distributors. Perhaps upper management knows more as they normally have regular calls between them if there's a significant disruption, but those details are never communicated back to the rest of the business. All distributors want to know is when and what volumes are they able to manufacture/ship to adjust their forecast accordingly or look for the stock elsewhere (not aplicable in this case).

Yeah, I don't think they are manufacturing them in Europe, but I guess he meant they have stopped distributing to the European market. Which isn't true, wouldn't even make sense to cut off their strongest markets. Even here in Finland we get a slow drip feed of these consoles. It's very sporadic, and they sell out their small allotments in minutes, but nevertheless. Retailers won't take in new orders because the backlog is so long.

Seems completely implausible.

That information is partially right. Sony really can't stop production of PS5 in Europe since they never produced PS5 in Europe. Everything else is even more BS =p

Yeah I was gonna say, maybe it’s a translation thing? Very odd phrasing 

Maybe "production suspended in Europe" is the better phrasing. Sorry for any confusion. I guess the gamestop guy meant shipments to retailers.