{"id":181,"date":"2026-04-09T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5fa9d1f5e4b017964f147845"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:28:14","slug":"amazon-says-some-xbox-series-x-pre-orders-wont-arrive-until-end-of-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/amazon-says-some-xbox-series-x-pre-orders-wont-arrive-until-end-of-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Says Some Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Won&#8217;t Arrive Until End of December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some customers who pre-order an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/xbox-series-x\">Xbox Series X<\/a> from Amazon are being informed that they may not receive their new consoles until December 31 or possibly earlier.The Xbox Series X will be released tomorrow, and those lucky enough to have secured a pre-order are already seeing shipment notifications and updates. But according to Amazon, not everyone who secured a pre-order through the online retailer will be able to get their new console in time for launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re contacting you with an update regarding your order of Xbox Series X. We expect to ship your console in the coming weeks as we receive more inventory in November and December,\u201d a customer notification email from Amazon reads. \u201cAt this time, we anticipate that you will receive your Xbox Series X by 12\/31 or before.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"2.0833333333333\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">:\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jKtQwLUXJU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/jKtQwLUXJU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Taylor (@EposVox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EposVox\/status\/1325922913808240641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the email, which IGN has seen, Amazon says it\u2019s \u201cmaking every effort to get it to\u201d customers as \u201csoon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon warned customers back in September when pre-orders went live that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/ps5-pre-order-amazon-release-date-delay\">might not be able to fulfill launch day deliveries<\/a> for the Xbox Series X or PS5. But the expectation was that the deliveries may miss the launch date. Now, Amazon is saying that in some cases deliveries might not go out until the end of December.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"widget-container\" readability=\"-24\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 slideshow-preview\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Confirmed Xbox Series X Games<\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2486504960 images-container\"><button aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-2486504960 hero-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-container aspect-ratio-16-9\">\n<div class=\"jsx-3905315446 aspect-ratio-child\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amazon-says-some-xbox-series-x-pre-orders-wont-arrive-until-end-of-december.jpg\" alt role=\"presentation\" class=\"jsx-2920405963 progressive-image image jsx-2126225085 expand loading\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output>There&#8217;s no word yet on whether PS5 pre-orders might also be delayed until December, but Amazon previously warned customers that there may be a hold up on Sony&#8217;s next-gen consoles as well.<br \/>\n<em>Matt T.M. Kim is a reporter for IGN.<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/amazon-xbox-series-x-pre-order-delay-december\">News Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some customers who pre-order an Xbox Series X from Amazon are being informed that they may not receive their new consoles until December 31 or possibly earlier.The Xbox Series X will be released tomorrow, and those lucky enough to have secured a pre-order are already seeing shipment notifications and updates. But according to Amazon, not everyone who secured a pre-order through the online retailer will be able to get their new console in time for launch. \u201cWe\u2019re contacting you with an update regarding your order of Xbox Series X. We expect to ship your console in the coming weeks as we receive more inventory in November and December,\u201d a customer notification email from Amazon reads. \u201cAt this time, we anticipate that you will receive your&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/amazon-says-some-xbox-series-x-pre-orders-wont-arrive-until-end-of-december\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ign"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amazon Says Some Xbox Series X Pre-Orders Won&#039;t Arrive Until End of December | Arcader 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