So, I’m thinking about getting an Xbox, is there any clue on when it won’t be getting snagged by scalpers as much?

[Underfire17]

Yeah I know it sounds kinda dumb, but I’m wanting to get a Series S for my boyfriend since he’s thinking about getting more into gaming. I just don’t know when it will be manufactured enough for it to basically not be worth scalping. I heard that the ps5 will be available soon, but I haven’t heard much about the Xbox. I’m willing to wait since I’m not about to give one of those greesy lards a handy, but I have no clue if it would be worth trying to get one since Xmas is literally slapping me in the face and they are still snatching them up.

[8tg]

Check around early to mid december. Microsoft wont let the holiday season ruin their product launch, the same thing happened with the first xbox one upon launch and within a month microsoft was blowing out store shelves to over compensate.

[eeeee1]

Do the classic "wait on the website 24/7 furiously clicking f5 until it says 'buy now'".

JK but I don't think the scalpers are going to give up anytime soon. your best chance is most likely to either shell out extra or being really lucky.

[Underfire17]

1 minute ago, 8tg said:

Check around early to mid december. Microsoft wont let the holiday season ruin their product launch, the same thing happened with the first xbox one upon launch and within a month microsoft was blowing out store shelves to over compensate.

I really hope so. Thanks!

[Letgomyleghoe.]

A person on the forum made a discord server that automatically checks when something get in stock including the xbox series s and give you a link. Still not perfect as it takes times for you to check out but a lot better than spamming refresh hoping that stock comes in. 

 

[Underfire17]

1 minute ago, eeeee1 said:

Do the classic "wait on the website 24/7 furiously clicking f5 until it says 'buy now'".

JK but I don't think the scalpers are going to give up anytime soon. your best chance is most likely to either shell out extra or being really lucky.

Yeah, i really don’t want to buy from them, but if the world ends I may have to. Thanks for the comment!

[Underfire17]

3 minutes ago, Gundar said:

A person on the forum made a discord server that automatically checks when something get in stock including the xbox series s and give you a link. Still not perfect as it takes times for you to check out but a lot better than spamming refresh hoping that stock comes in. 

 

Oh wow! I never knew they had a discord for this kinda thing! Thanks for that!

[PlayStation 2]

Outside of the above suggestions, it could be possible that you're waiting a while to get your boyfriend an Xbox Series S. 

Although, if I was to be completely honest, as good of a Christmas gift as it'd be, there's not much reason to purchase an XSS (or a Series X... or a PS5 for that matter) at this moment. Just keep an eye out and you might get lucky.

[Lord Vile]

You could go into an actual store and see if they're doing preorders

[Taintedmind]

TSMC has to keep up w/production, since AMD is creating/ordering chips for PS5 processors & graphics cards, XB:S-X/S processors & graphics cards, laptop processors & graphics cards and desktop processors & graphics cards.  It's a major order to fill simultaneously, along w/lower yields due to it only being a 2nd gen.  They'll have an equilibrium sometime next year more than likely, once people're able to purchase some and demand is below supply.

[Underfire17]

On 11/29/2020 at 8:25 PM, Lord Vile said:

You could go into an actual store and see if they're doing preorders

Just tried the other day. The guy I talked to was not sure about when they were going to come in either.

[Underfire17]

On 12/1/2020 at 8:11 PM, Taintedmind said:

TSMC has to keep up w/production, since AMD is creating/ordering chips for PS5 processors & graphics cards, XB:S-X/S processors & graphics cards, laptop processors & graphics cards and desktop processors & graphics cards.  It's a major order to fill simultaneously, along w/lower yields due to it only being a 2nd gen.  They'll have an equilibrium sometime next year more than likely, once people're able to purchase some and demand is below supply.

Yeah, I actually didn't think about that tbh. I'm probably going to wait anyway, since every first batch of consoles usually die really early on and I don't want to have to deal with a broken Xbox.