This morning, vice president of marketing, strategy and business Yusef Mehdi finally announced to the world the date at which Microsoft’s Xbox One will be available for purchase in the 13 countries it will launch in first.

Those who have pre-ordered or thinking about purchasing an Xbox One can get their hands on the next-generation console this November 22, according to a recent posting on Xbox Wire.

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13 territories, who are Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, UK, and USA, will be the first to be able to walk home with an Xbox One when it launches. The console’s launch in the rest of the world will follow throughout 2014 with no exact date given at this time.

Those expecting to purchase the Xbox One on day one can expect these games to be available at launch.

Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that their upcoming next-generation console has entered full production and received a slight bump in it’s CPU power, feel free to read about it here. Xbox One retails at $499 USD.