Did someone really get the Xbox ROG Ally X early?

Rumors began to spread throughout the world of technology yesterday that a player accidentally received the next Xbox Rog Ally X Gaming Pandheld Weeks before its official launch. The player even went to Reddit to publish an early examination of the device, in a thread now deleted.

If you are hanging out in the technological space long enough, you will possibly hear stories of customers without mistrust get new devices before the planned date. Example: earlier this year, some people who pre -ordered the Samsung Galaxy S25 received their units a few days before the launch thanks to an accelerated shipping error. Usually, these surprises occur a few days maximum, which makes it very interesting that someone claims to have received the Xbox Rog Ally X more than two weeks earlier.

History began to spread thanks to Post Reddit deleted Entitled “WTFF almost 3 weeks before!” from a user named technique_fun77. The Redditor expressed his very surprise for having received the unit so early, an apparent error from the Amazon France, they said. The message, which was saved in a screenshot by Windows Centralshows that the user made a quick examination of the alleged Rog Ally X, praising his light design and the full screen experience Xbox.

The post collected hundreds of answers which were a mixture of congratulations and jealousy. However, as we cannot independently check these reports, a certain skepticism is also in order.

So what is really going on with the case of the early Xbox Rog Ally X?

Early release has been traced to a Amazon France listing. A screenshot circulating online shows that the device would be delivered from October 1, 15 full days before the official release date of October 16. We have verified the list, that you can see onlineDo not show any delivery or date option available to date. A screenshot of the Wayback machine from this list from September shows an early delivery time, but the product is listed for sale with a questionable third-party seller, and pre-orders were not even available at that time. (However, you can pre -order the Xbox Rog Ally ally.

And there is still another reason for skeptical: the original reddit post did not contain any image. So, would Amazon France really have shipped the long-awaited portable game console more than two weeks earlier? Although this seems very unlikely, after the news initially broke out, other redditors presented their own early delivery stories, this time with photos

When writing these lines, there is now a couple of additional User stations in the ROG Allied X Subdreddit Players saying that Amazon France Also sent them units in error. These new messages also have photos, users showing the presumed units In And of packaging. Mashable has contacted these users and Amazon for more information, and we will update this post if we learn something new.

We must note that thanks to the manufacturers of generative IA images, it is now trivial to create false images and screenshots. However, on the basis of these reports, it seems that there is a non -zero chance that someone from Amazon France has royally reduced something.

You can pre-order the new console by yourself; It should be launched on October 16.