Noonan

With it being a scheduled go-live, you'll have to deal with bots as well. Good luck to anyone going for one! I'm holding off on the Series X/S for now.

fujishig

This may seem really dumb, but I'm waffling on just waiting it out for a redesign at this point. I think this thing looks fine vertical but terrible horizontal (especially with the non removable stand, and they seem to always take pictures of it from its "good side") and a coat of paint isn't going to do much.

Eh, who am I kidding, I'll probably get it anyway. But ugh.

OldBoy

so you can't put this horizontal? and can you hook up existing hard drives?

nickdawgy

Nothing working for me. Slow loading.

nickdawgy

Amazon is down. Best Buy not loading. Target frozen.

Rob V

^^ Same for me... shitshow. Microsoft down too.

Best Buy is loading for me but it just says "coming soon".

maxfisher

Amazon came back for me, but is the same placeholder page with no option to order. Best Buy still shows coming soon..

nickdawgy

I had it in my cart at Wal-Mart and sold out. Looks like bots win again. This is no different than a Funko release or a shoes release.

stingermck

Nothing on my end. Surprise surprise.

Noonan

Every retailer should implement the "I'm not a Robot" authentication.

nickdawgy

Same. Target won't even let me add it to my cart. Gamestop says you're in line but they've been saying that since a few days ago.

maxfisher

Or just require you to fill out a form and request access to the preorder a week or so in advance, then only let confirmed customers purchase them with a limit of one each.

Noonan

What would stop bots from doing the same thing to the forms using different email addresses for each order?

nickdawgy

Newegg not working either. Wal-Mart showing sold out.

nickdawgy

I don't remember it being this hard for the Xbox One and that was in the middle of the day.

Rob V

I give up... I'm not going to spend another minute hitting "refresh". This will mostly likely be the first time I don't get a console at launch but, truthfully, I don't really care all that much. I will definitely pick both up and I really would like to get my son one for Xmas... but I can wait until the dust settles and these things are prominent.

fujishig

If it works like the PS5 did, you can try and try again until it shows sold out on the actual site. I know I had to try a few times to get the PS5.

As far as amazon goes: at least the dogs are cute.

nickdawgy

It already says sold out.

nickdawgy

Maybe there will be more. If not, it'll be the first time I miss out as well.

nickdawgy

So MS was like "at least we have the exact time you can pre-order" and then they end up having more issues than Sony.

Schloob1

Got through on my Target app, was driving me crazy as took quite a while saying card not right, and every other excuse for it not to get through. Only part don’t like is that it gets delivered and can’t pick up on release date at store.

maxfisher

Some people might do that, but it'd make it harder for the bots. Amazon could also limit it by shipping address.

I managed to add to my cart at Target, but the cart keeps timing out. Oh well.

nickdawgy

Amazon showing Series X unavailable now.

tonyc3742

Yep that sucked. MS site crashed, Target keeps saying "it's in your cart" then "your cart is empty". I'm on a checkout screen on Gamestop but it's just spinning. Never even saw it at best buy or Amazon. Walmart lets me go through but then says 'we're out, saving in your cart' after completing the order.
Yeah...registered users, sign up early, do a bot check, limit 1.
I guess I'll check back throughout the day and see if someone's credit card bounced.
And then out of curiousity browse Ebay in a few days. NOT to buy one, I will never buy a scalped anything, but just to see how many scumbags there are. And of course Ebay could refuse to list newly released consoles for over retail price, but why would they do that.

nickdawgy

Mine keeps saying "oops something went wrong."