Based on the numbers at steamframeout.com you can do some very rough back of the envolope calculations and it’s not looking great.
In recent days, purchases and deliveries seem to move to a pretty consistent 150/day pace. At this rate, moving through the queue of roughly 37.000 reservations will take around 240 days.
Being more generous you could substract the already shipped Frames and assume a more optimistic 160 deliveries per day. This shortens the timespan to just 200 days for the outstanding backlog.
So yeah, the last reservations would be delivered around April 2027.
I am fully aware of all the caveats of the numbers used, this is just a fun little exercise based on available data.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
I get that AI companies sucking up all the hardware has slowed things down elsewhere, but this legitimately just feels like a major fuckup on Valve’s part. Honestly ridiculous. It feels like they dramatically underestimated the demand for all 3 of these hardware releases this year.
I’m legitimately considering just getting one from a scalper at this point. I know that’s a practice that shouldn’t be supported at all and is a huge part of the problem, but pushing back to December at the earliest is ridiculous.
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 45 minutes ago
I’m just waiting and I’m waitlisted. I went years without VR. I want a frame but not enough to buy from a scalper.