Xbox Series X pre-orders open Sept. 22 at 11 a.m. EDT

Retailers will begin taking pre-orders for the Xbox Series X and S on September 22nd at 8am PT/11am ET, Microsoft has confirmed to Kotaku.

While we already knew that pre-orders for Xbox’s next-gen systems would open on September 22nd ahead of the consoles’ November 10th Canadian launch, this marks official word on when, specifically, that will happen on that date.

The tech giant told Kotaku that this pre-order time applies to all of the expected major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, Target, GameStop and Best Buy. It’s currently unclear, however, whether this applies to all Canadian retailers. It’s worth noting that Best Buy Canada confirmed a few days ago that it will start taking Series X and S pre-orders on September 22nd 11am ET. Otherwise, a specific time has not yet been given from other Canadian retailers.

MobileSyrup has reached out to Xbox Canada to confirm which Canadian retailers will be offering pre-orders, as well as whether they will all go live on September 22nd at 11am ET. This story will be updated once a response has been received. In any case, this information does give consumers a decent amount of notice, which hasn’t exactly been the case with PlayStation 5 pre-orders.

While Sony had previously said that pre-orders for its next-gen console wouldn’t happen suddenly, they quickly went up within a couple of hours of the price and release date reveal.