Analogue Pocket Pre-Orders Will Start Shipping on December 13

After the disappointing information that each the Valve Steam Deck and the Panic Playdate handheld consoles had been dealing with points pushing their availability into 2022, as we speak Analogue revealed its extremely anticipated Pocket will truly begin delivery on December 13 for the primary wave of pre-orders.

Many who had pre-ordered the Analogue Pocket had been nervous that the hand held could be dealing with the identical delays because the Steam Deck as Valve is coping with the identical provide chain points affecting producers around the globe, and the Panic Playdate, whose first run was discovered to have extreme points with their rechargeable batteries, requiring them to be fully changed—an costly and time-consuming course of given all items needed to be shipped again abroad.

But this morning a Gizmodo staffer acquired the next e mail from Analogue this morning concerning their Pocket pre-order:

Analogue Pocket pre-orders will start delivery on December thirteenth. Due to unprecedented delivery congestion, your order will ship and be delivered between December 14th – December thirtieth.

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We perceive that a few of you can be away throughout the vacation season and would like supply within the new yr. With this in thoughts, we’re providing to carry your package deal over the vacation interval and begin delivery on January third. If you can not settle for supply between December 14th – December thirtieth, it’s best to request a maintain to your order.

Please reply to this e mail or contact help@analogue.co to vary your tackle, request a maintain or cancel your order. Please present an entire and correct tackle.

The remaining date for any adjustments to your order is November twenty eighth. After this date, we can’t settle for any adjustments to your order as we start the success course of.

If you do not want to vary your delivery tackle or request a maintain in your order, please don’t reply to this e mail. Your order will ship in December.

So whereas Analogue is topic to the identical delivery delays that each different firm that’s attempting to get its merchandise out the door for the vacations is coping with, it feels like those that had been among the many first to pre-order the Pocket is likely to be fortunate sufficient to get their console earlier than 2021 attracts to a detailed—however with delivery ETAs extending so far as December 30, it could possibly be an actual buzzer-beater for some.