Back in June, Amazon started providing invite requests for a possibility to purchase the hard-to-get PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles — permitting anybody to attempt their luck with out the stress of a dwell restock and all of the F5 spamming. Now, practically two months later, Amazon has confirmed by way of its Amazon Games Twitter account that invitations are lastly going out for each consoles. These invitations can be despatched in waves, with one other spherical anticipated to exit subsequent week.

If you obtain one in every of these invitations, you’ll have 72 hours to make the acquisition on Amazon’s web site from the distinctive hyperlink within the e mail. Speaking from firsthand expertise of the Xbox invite I acquired at the moment, Amazon’s emails look a bit of generic — they’re merely from “Amazon.com,” and the topic line reads simply “Congrats, you’re invited!” Which, frankly, appears to be like a bit of spammy at first look. So be certain you don’t unintentionally delete it on impulse like I practically did.

These invitations are a welcome departure from Amazon’s monitor file of sloppy restocks, the place the consoles normally promote out shortly amid myriad checkout errors. You’d suppose the e-commerce large may work out a queue system for dwell restocks of high-demand gadgets, however at the very least this can be a helpful substitute.

If you didn’t already request an invitation, the pages for the usual $499.99 PlayStation 5, the $549.99 PS5 bundle with Horizon Forbidden West, and the $499 Xbox Series X all have buttons to request an invitation on Amazon now. You don’t must be a Prime subscriber, and you’ll see in the event you get fortunate in one in every of Amazon’s upcoming invite waves.