Surprise! Xbox Preorders Were A Total Mess, Too

Xbox Series X and S preorders went live this morning right on time, as expected. At least, they did in some places. For some people. As long as you weren't stuck in a queue, or told it was sold out when it seemingly was not. At least Amazon had pictures of cute dogs to keep you company. Predictably, Xbox preorders were a shitshow, demonstrating for the third time in a short span (after the RTX 3080 and PS5) that retailer websites just aren't equipped to deal with this level of heavy demand. Microsoft appears to have done what it could, announcing that preorders would go live at a specified time so that people could be prepared, rather than giving bots the opportunity to scrape everything up as they went live. But everyone knowing exactly when preorders would begin also ensured the maximum amount of traffic to all of these websites, and none of them seem to have handled it particularly well. For starters, neither Amazon nor Best Buy had their preorders available right at 8 AM PT. That may have meant you were stuck frustratingly refreshing those pages, expecting them to be live any second, when you could have been spending your time frustratingly refreshing pages on Walmart, Target, and the Xbox Store, where there were consoles to place orders on right away.Continue Reading at GameSpot
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