Quoted from Captive_Ball:I placed an order through Stern Rewards for a DP Pro last week. I have my place in line right now, was told to look at end of Q1 2021 as an estimated completion/ship date. Humble or not, they have a lot of machines to make.
This is why there's such a backlog. Stern is offering almost a dozen models, but can only manufacture two models at any given time. Distributors run out of an older title and it gets backordered. In the past, WMS/DE would have simply said "buy the current title" but Stern knows the home market isn't like that, so they keep accepting orders and remaking older games to fill demand.
As long as people are willing to wait for backorders, this should work well for Stern.