Microsoft has taken a thinly-veiled dig at the chaos that was PS5's surprise pre-order debacle, promisin🌊g to reveal the exact time Xbox one will go live soon.

It's probably fair to say that the PS5 Showcase event on Wednesday night was a success. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It opened with Final Fantasy 16, gave 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Harry Potter gamers something to get excited about via 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hogwarts Legacy, and closed with the information everyone wanted to know about, the price. A regular PS5 will cost $499🐲 and the digital edition will cost $399.

It's after the showcase came to an end that chaos ensued. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation bosses promised months ago that it would not spring pre-orders on its potential customers unexpectedly. That's why it made sense that there was no mention of it durin⛦g the showcase itself. The reveal from Geoff Keighly after the fact th🦋at they would go live the following morning would not have sat well with a lot of people.

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Things got even more chaotic when Walmart decided it didn't want to wait until Thursday morning. The retailer tweeted "make you wait to get the new #PlayStation5? Nah, that's not like us. Go on, preorder it NOW!" That sent the internet into a frenzy and started a domino effect. Target and Amazon followed suit, as did Best Buy and GameStop. By the end of the night, thousands of h🐷opeful PlayStation fans had spent hours in virtual queues, many of them with nothing to show for their wasted evening.

Xbox's various reveals went off with far fewer hiccups 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:despite going down a week earlier than𒅌 🐽planned. In fact, it decided to take a thinly-veiled shot at the PS5 pre-order madness via a tweet about its own pre-order plan. It reiterated that pre-orders for the Series X and Series S will go live on September 22, 2020. The dig at PlayStation came in the form of the tweet's ending, "don’t worry - we’ll let you know t🅺he exact time pre-orders start for you soon."

PS5's pre-order problems are another element of this next-gen console war that will benefit the sales of the Series X and Series S. Many of those who were on the fence and failed to land a 🐷PS5 pre-order this week might throw their hands up and go for an Xbox next week instead. In a battle where PlayStation was always going to be leading the way, it continues to feel like Xbox is making up a lot of ground.

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