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Lew Later

People Really Want the Xbox Series X

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Technology, News, Tech News

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Xbox Series X just experienced a pre-order bonanza similar to the Sony PlayStation 5.

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0:00.0

So that's Xbox pre-order thing was going on today

0:05.4

Series X series S don't you forget it and

0:11.0

They had their own it was kind of like the PlayStation thing, bit of a fiasco.

0:15.0

Yep.

0:17.0

It was the same, I saw people tweeting with their screenshots.

0:20.0

I got it, I didn't, a lot more, I didn't get it a lot more website crashed

0:26.9

The Microsoft website itself showing sold out for a period of time

0:32.4

This next-gen gaming stuff.

0:35.0

People are going wild!

0:37.0

Well, they only have one chance to, you know, pre-order on launch day.

0:43.0

Best Buy GameStop, Microsoft Store, all suffering issues,

0:48.0

Walmart suffering issues, experiencing issues.

0:52.0

Actually, it looks like Walmart might be the best spot at the time

0:56.1

they're the least amount of issues and reports on the Down detector.com getting smashed with the pre-orders. Now obviously I don't know which

1:08.1

of the two consoles is more popular. What do we have to go on if you can knock down all the sites I guess it's a lot of interest.

1:17.0

And weirdly the way they lined it up,

1:23.0

PlayStation was originally supposed to go later,

1:26.0

but who was supposed to go second?

1:28.0

Was Microsoft always expecting to go second?

1:31.0

It's an odd play.

1:32.0

I've been thinking about the strategy here. Do you want to go first or second for the pre-orders?

1:40.0

Me? Yeah, you. If you're Microsoft or you're Sony. Do you want to go first or second?

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