Delays to Evercade VS hardware and cart releases

Bad news for a console launch is never a good thing, although delays are to be expected in the current world supply crisis. However, when you are sat at home playing CJ's Elephant Antics and shooting poodles with peanuts on an OG Evercade, the blow is a little softer. 

Still it looks there's a month or so delay for EU orders including the Founders edition, with the US shipments dropping to January. Missing Christmas is probably way more annoying and I feel for those missing out, especially with the game delay too.  On the plus side, new carts are being announced in December and a LE handheld version is on the way too. 

The official word is "Many people are aware of the increased pressure that has affected lorry freight, congestion at ports, and the shipping lines to get stock around the world. Like many other companies, we have to rely on this infrastructure to get you your console. Over the past 3 months, this situation has become very challenging and despite the best planning, we have not been able to find any way to improve outcomes.

This announcement applies to the 6 new cartridges (Intellivision, Bitmap Brothers, Technos Arcade, Data East Arcade, Gaelco Arcade, Atari Arcade) and all VS hardware as they are shipping together. That comes after the Intellivision and Bitmaps carts were pushed from September to November earlier

Europe & Founder Edition

We have now managed to secure vessel space for all European stock and with this delay, we must make the estimated release window between the 8th and 17th of December 2021. 

Regarding the Founder edition, our partner Funstock.co.uk currently expects to receive all of the stock by the end of November 2021 and will start dispatching orders immediately after the stock is processed via their UK warehouse. If all goes as planned, Funstock aims to have dispatched all orders to all destinations worldwide, by the 8th of December 2021.

US & Canada

Unfortunately, we have worse news for our USA and Canadian customers. At this point, we are waiting for vessel confirmations and despite working with 4 different shipping agents, we are not expecting goods to ship for 2 or 3 weeks. This means we have an estimated USA/Canada release date of 14th of January 2022.

Read the full news here.