Amazon offered gamers one last chance to get their hands on the Day One edition of the Xbox One, but within minutes, preorders were sold out. November 20, 2013 6:25 AM PST (Credit: Microsoft) Gamers who were dragging their feet and decided against preordering an Xbox One were given one more chance on Wednesday. Amazon on Wednesday started offering a limited number of Xbox One preorders at 5 a.m. PT. Within minutes, the Xbox One Day One Edition was sold out, leaving all of those who wanted the console to try their luck waiting in line on Friday when the hardware launches. Related stories Microsoft launches Xbox One SmartGlass app Xbox One's Twitch gameplay streaming delayed until 2014 Forget Xbox One and PS4, nothing beats Game Boy (video) Try this, Apple: Xbox greets PlayStation 4 with a nice tweet For Battlefield 4 players, a move to Xbox One, PS4 means leaving friends behind Xbox One preoders have been hard to come back since the summer when Amazon and other game retailers ran out of their initial preorder allocation. Since then, some extra units have been offered, but they've been few and far between. Gamestop, Best Buy, and several other retailers are expecting the Xbox One to be a strong seller for the foreseeable future. What remains to be seen, however, is whether the Xbox One can get off to the same fast start as the PlayStation 4. That console, which launched on November 15, tallied 1 million unit sales in its first 24 hours on store shelves. Microsoft has not said how many units it predicts it will sell in the Xbox One's early days on store shelves.
Amazon offered gamers one last chance to get their hands on the Day One edition of the Xbox One, but within minutes, preorders were sold out.
(Credit: Microsoft)
Gamers who were dragging their feet and decided against preordering an Xbox One were given one more chance on Wednesday.
Amazon on Wednesday started offering a limited number of Xbox One preorders at 5 a.m. PT. Within minutes, the Xbox One Day One Edition was sold out, leaving all of those who wanted the console to try their luck waiting in line on Friday when the hardware launches.
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- Xbox One's Twitch gameplay streaming delayed until 2014
- Forget Xbox One and PS4, nothing beats Game Boy (video)
- Try this, Apple: Xbox greets PlayStation 4 with a nice tweet
- For Battlefield 4 players, a move to Xbox One, PS4 means leaving friends behind
Xbox One preoders have been hard to come back since the summer when Amazon and other game retailers ran out of their initial preorder allocation. Since then, some extra units have been offered, but they've been few and far between. Gamestop, Best Buy, and several other retailers are expecting the Xbox One to be a strong seller for the foreseeable future.
What remains to be seen, however, is whether the Xbox One can get off to the same fast start as the PlayStation 4. That console, which launched on November 15, tallied 1 million unit sales in its first 24 hours on store shelves. Microsoft has not said how many units it predicts it will sell in the Xbox One's early days on store shelves.
