So yeah, the last reservations would be delivered around April 2027.

So maybe someone will have hacked the Quest 3 by then to install SteamOS.

There was an announcement yesterday or the day before that if you go to the store page for the frame and you are signed in and had a reservation it'll show an estimate of how long you might have to wait now.

I thought the distinction between the reservation list and waitlist was that the reserved ones were ready to go basically immediately. They were moving through the reserved list pretty fast initially too. Guess not.

They did also recently update the Steam store page for the Frame to include a go/no-go of order availability for either by December 2027 2026 or 2027, if you view the page while logged in and have one reserved

It was also like this with the Steam Deck and there the production ramped up a lot compared to the initial supply.

Valve kinda shit the bed with all the hardware this year. I was hyped for all three when first announced, and started a savings fund for all three.

Every new detail that came out killed that excitement a little bit and each launch I decided to pass ultimately. I know this won't be popular, but decided to pick up a NS2 with the savings instead.

Hopefully they are still making the controllers in two years and I'll pick up a couple on sale.

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.

I’m just skipping this generation of hardware. If they don’t care enough to do market research on demand, then I don’t care enough to buy.