I am afraid you should not say this unless it is so.
Otherwise everything else actually is too much drama.
What is a let down is probably people who depended on certain pre orders and now are left hanging with nothing.
Blaming a forum that actually holds a big part of the business is also not good.
FYI since they are not communicating or updating the forum thread maybe is time to close the thread and all matters be only communicated directly.
I don't see why they could not be more direct here and sort it out.