Preorders Have Started. (Previously named starts in two hours)


Freedom is a loaded term especially for devices targeting open source communities. Therefore I would avoid using it in such taglines.
 
Well, since ED made that last video the pre-orders have gotten a boost, now at 885, up 7 from 878 4 days ago

Keep the videos coming
 
Week 19 is complete, the first full week of the 5th month since preorders started.

Week 01 (01/05-07/05) : 563 preorders (0-563)
Week 02 (08/05-14/05) : 82 preorders (563-645)
Week 03 (15/05-21/05) : 53 preorders (645-698)
Week 04 (22/05-28/05) : 28 preorders (698-726)
Week 05 (29/05-04/06) : 29 preorders (726-755)
Week 06 (05/06-11/06) : 16 preorders (755-771)
Week 07 (12/06-18/06) : 16 preorders (771-787)
Week 08 (19/06-25/06) : 15 preorders (787-793)
Week 09 (26/06-02/07) : 10 preorders (793-803)
Week 10 (03/07-09/07) : 20 preorders (803-823)
Week 11 (10/07-16/07) : 10 preorders (823-833)
Week 12 (17/07-23/07) : 7 preorders (833-840)
Week 13 (24/07-30/07) : 12 preorders (840-852)
Week 14 (31/07-06/08) : 7 preorders (852-859)
Week 15 (07/08-13/08) : 4 preorders (859-863)
Week 16 (14/08-20/08) : 12 preorders (863-875)
Week 17 (21/08-27/08) : 2 preorders (875-877)
Week 18 (28/08-03/09) : 1 preorder (877-878)
Week 19 (04/09-10/09) : 9 preorders (878-887)

Yeah, new Pyra video seems to have done the trick, even if it didn't actually show tiler working and software running. We got the first new preorder on Monday morning, before news about the video was posted, then one on Tuesday early morning, but from Wednesday onwards they came relatively flooding in - I guess news like that takes a little time to percolate around the web.
 
Well supposedly some multiple of thousands of Pandoras were sold over the years. Perhaps that video showing a comparison against the Pandora actually got found by some of those thousand ex-users, although it did only say 'Pandora' in the description and not the title. More likely perhaps is that there's just a few dozen or more users hanging around, waiting for more confirmation that this isn't some vapourware project like some others we could mention. While there have been plenty of pictures of devboard and parts being made before now, if your main news source is youtube this was perhaps the first evidence of parts actually being put together.
 
Incoming; Week 20.

Week 01 (01/05-07/05) : 563 preorders (0-563)
Week 02 (08/05-14/05) : 82 preorders (563-645)
Week 03 (15/05-21/05) : 53 preorders (645-698)
Week 04 (22/05-28/05) : 28 preorders (698-726)
Week 05 (29/05-04/06) : 29 preorders (726-755)
Week 06 (05/06-11/06) : 16 preorders (755-771)
Week 07 (12/06-18/06) : 16 preorders (771-787)
Week 08 (19/06-25/06) : 15 preorders (787-793)
Week 09 (26/06-02/07) : 10 preorders (793-803)
Week 10 (03/07-09/07) : 20 preorders (803-823)
Week 11 (10/07-16/07) : 10 preorders (823-833)
Week 12 (17/07-23/07) : 7 preorders (833-840)
Week 13 (24/07-30/07) : 12 preorders (840-852)
Week 14 (31/07-06/08) : 7 preorders (852-859)
Week 15 (07/08-13/08) : 4 preorders (859-863)
Week 16 (14/08-20/08) : 12 preorders (863-875)
Week 17 (21/08-27/08) : 2 preorders (875-877)
Week 18 (28/08-03/09) : 1 preorder (877-878)
Week 19 (04/09-10/09) : 9 preorders (878-887)
Week 20 (11/09-17/09) : 11 preorders (887-898)

That's 20 orders in the past fortnight, the best for nine weeks, all presumably thanks to an installation video by ED. Impressive! Most of the week was one preorder per day, with the weekend days giving more. All networked orders seem to have been EU orders though, so perhaps gamescom had some influence too.

Edit: Fixed counting!
 
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900 have been reached. Together with the yet to convert 50 pre-pre-orders, that's the 950 EvilDragon mentioned he needs for the first 1000 batch production. Next goal: 1500. Only after those are reached for the next 1000 batch, will the Pyra be available in the store.
 
I'd like to hear the reasons for why those people haven't converted from pre preorders to pre-orders. I remember someone saying they had reasons for not doing it, I am curious as to what those reasons could be.
 
Well, it's been a long time since the pre-preorders were made, and we've seen some impressive results from the GPD Win campaign since then for instance. The pre-preorder vouchers should be usable against any products in the dragonbox shop, including GPD Wins once he stocks them (or some may even have already used them against Win pre-orders). It's been slightly less long since ED last announced the number of unconverted pre-preorder vouchers, and I suspect there's at most a couple dozen left by now.
 
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