Xbox has announced that pre-orders for their upcoming Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X consoles are to go live next week on September 22 along with a list of retailers for several countries. 

The pre-orders will go live at 8am local time for most regions, and will allow those looking to guarantee they get their hands on the next-gen consoles on launch day to put their money down.

The locales, local times and list of retailers are as follows:

Pre-orders will also be able to be made in selected countries via the Xbox All Access program, with a list of eligible countries and specific retailers in the full Xbox Wire post over here. 

The timing of the announcement appears to be quite deliberate, as PlayStation 5 pre-orders seemingly went live somewhat unexpectedly following Sony’s PlayStation 5 conference on Wednesday evening leaving some retailers already running out of stock allocations of both versions of Sony’s next console.

Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X are both scheduled to launch on November 10 for £249 and £449 respectively.