Evercade Oversold
A number of people were left disappointed after many who preordered the revised Evercade VS, the VS-R, found that their orders weren’t being fulfilled. Well the problem was widespread enough that it reached Blaze, and the Evercade maker responded on their website to explain the issue to fans.
In short: retailers have oversold the console, have allowed more orders for VS-Rs to be made than for Blaze had allocated for sale, so many fans were left without the consoles they ordered. Blaze has assured fans that more consoles are on their way to retailers. You can read the full statement below.
Perhaps Blaze underestimated the level of demand for their revised console, and they should have manufactured for units for sale at the time of launch, but as frustrating as the delay might be for fans, it’s a positive sign for the console platform.
‘Dear Evercade Customers
We have received a lot of correspondence regarding Evercade VS-R orders not being fulfilled by some retailers, despite them pre-ordering the product in advance. We’ve spent the last few days investigating the situation and have found in some circumstances the stock has been oversold above agreed and available allocated levels and no extra stock was immediately available to satisfy requests from our retail partners.This overwhelming initial demand for the Evercade VS-R has been beyond our projections, and we want to assure you that additional stock is on the way to retailers, with even more units in production. We hope this will help resolve the supply issues over the coming weeks and months.For our customers in Spain, a new release date of October 1st is in place to allow our distributor to ship the consoles and fulfill all pre-orders across retailers for the Evercade VS-R.We apologise if you have been affected by any of these issues. We will keep all retailers updated regarding future shipments so they may update you on your orders.’
Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? I started dipping my toes in the vast sea of Kemco JRPGs.
