23
Sep
It seems like only yesterday that we were ruminating on what went wrong with PS5 pre-orders, and here we are again. The Xbox Series X and Series S pre-orders didn’t quite go as planned for Microsoft, even after suggesting things would go much more smoothly than they did for Sony. The sudden rush of customers to retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and GameStop led to sites crashing and many people being left without a pre-order as stores sold out of the next-gen consoles within minutes. Target wouldn’t let some people actually add a console to their carts. Even The…