This is starting to feel like 20+ years ago having to wait for me deck, we are in the days now where in the UK we have Amazon who ship from warehouses in Spain and Germany and can deliver the same day they are sent out, Argos, sports direct and other store offer same day or next day delivery. And for this being a launch I’ve had items directly from Sony and Microsoft get delivered on launch days when I’ve ordered from them. I think the biggest mistake valve did was not opening pre orders for the OLED deck to find out the demand also only having one shipping option when they could of added paid shipping options and people could have paid for it themselves if they wanted to
It was the smartest thing they could’ve done. By opening preorders and judging by the LCD release as an experience, most people would’ve tried to order right away to fight scalpers. The anti resell strategy of this release was brilliant and it’s totally worth the wait. I received my PS5 day one when it released, but I had friends waiting months because of that stupid system of preorders then releasing systems slowly