Can you keep your anti EU politics out of the thread? Thanks.
Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***
Can you keep your anti EU politics out of the thread? Thanks.
Soldato
So you went back through my post history for that, not creepy at all.
Caporegime
Over a week later and still no series X stock. Can never remember a launch being this terrible.
Man of Honour
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Anyone enjoying AC
Brilliant game. Can’t wait to try it on the new tv this weekend. Have only played a few hours in England so far.
You might be waiting a while
https://www.whathifi.com/news/xbox-series-x-stock-shortages-expected-to-continue-until-2021
Man of Honour
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Sounds like it’s been a popular launch. Not surprised, I’m a convert.
Soldato
Next console launch we need to get organised so no one from ocuk misses out or has to pay scalpers prices.
Associate
Lucky you, mine still says 23/9/21, 1 year after I pre-ordered it direct from MS. Have a feeling I am going to have raise a ticket with support.
Soldato
Just managed to get one from Very
Associate
You beat me by a femto second, you *!*!*!*
Soldato
It's been bad before but I think due to covid and places closing for weeks and months on end it's the worst I've seen it. I was surprised when they announced it would still be this year and not next after the year we have had.
Soldato
There might be more later, it went in stock and then out of stock quickly, I missed that. Then 20 minutes later it was in stock again and I managed to get one.
Keep an eye on Argos tonight as well, rumour on Stock Informer website that they might get stock today, but take that with a pinch of salt.
Soldato
The more people have consoles before Xmas and during lockdown the more digital sales maybe
Caporegime
Lol how you going to do that?? It’s on the websites to deal with the scalpers and not on consumers or a forum.
A Captcha of some sort would have probably helped, none of the websites that I used had one for placing orders on pre order day. Or do what Currys did and put the price up by a few thousand then let people order and as long as they can prove it’s for them only then send out a special code to reduce price to the selling point.
I was quite fortunate that the second wave a few weeks back for pre orders I managed to nab one from Game even though at 8am they said there was no stock, tried the others but again either sold out or crashed. I left it for a few hrs, came back at 11am to try once more and finally managed to nab one from game which I was quite surprised and shocked.
Where did you get yours from out of interest?
Associate
Caporegime
I have never bothered with pre-ordering yet always crumble on launch day and hunt the stores and ring up for stock. I think the last thing I pre-ordered was the original Nintendo DS. I think sadistically I enjoy the hunt more but this time around the stores have been closed so no such luck leaving everything for scalpers. If shops do open on the 2nd of December I would bet my bottom dollar they will have stock in stores to get people out of the house.
I was watching the WD footage thinking "OK. I can see the difference. But... would I even notice?".
Only three things put me off:
1. Storage.
2. The lack of meaningful enhancement for most Xbox One titles. Right now, that means it isn't really a huge upgrade from One S. Not to the extend that the Series X is over One X, anyway.
3. Concerns over how well supported it's going to be when it comes to third-party titles. I expect Microsoft will spend time optimising for Series S. But will others? Or will they just to a quick hack job on the Series X/PS5 versions and then say "that'll do"?