Hi all, I've been watching this topic evolve the past couple months and decided to contribute something. I'm in Australia and work at a retail outlet and spoke with the supplier of Asus monitors last week, who put me onto Asus Australia, who put me onto their marketing team who i have a number for now and they told me pre-orders will be in August, at least in Australia and will not be going directly to retailers for at least a few months post release (luckily she will put one aside for me :P) so i have a feeling one of the reasons for the slow responses is the production process is taking longer than expected. 
 
side note - can not believe all the personal info required in sign up wow.

Zach_Novak
Hi all, I've been watching this topic evolve the past couple months and decided to contribute something. I'm in Australia and work at a retail outlet and spoke with the supplier of Asus monitors last week, who put me onto Asus Australia, who put me onto their marketing team who i have a number for now and they told me pre-orders will be in August, at least in Australia and will not be going directly to retailers for at least a few months post release (luckily she will put one aside for me :P) so i have a feeling one of the reasons for the slow responses is the production process is taking longer than expected. 
 
side note - can not believe all the personal info required in sign up wow.

Damn I'm never going to see one of these let a lot be able to buy one

Myst3ri0n

Zach_Novak
Hi all, I've been watching this topic evolve the past couple months and decided to contribute something. I'm in Australia and work at a retail outlet and spoke with the supplier of Asus monitors last week, who put me onto Asus Australia, who put me onto their marketing team who i have a number for now and they told me pre-orders will be in August, at least in Australia and will not be going directly to retailers for at least a few months post release (luckily she will put one aside for me :P) so i have a feeling one of the reasons for the slow responses is the production process is taking longer than expected. 
 
side note - can not believe all the personal info required in sign up wow.

Damn I'm never going to see one of these let a lot be able to buy one

Your best bet is simply to preorder it if possible

If the rumor mill is true it's coming Via boat. Should see it end of July most likely August here in the US.
 
For now this little 24" is kind of holding me over.

Pre order available from Australias biggest online distributor of PC related things
  
price was expected.
 
edit: won't let me link URLs? it's pccasegear dot com lol

bdary

Zach_Novak
Pre order available from Australias biggest online distributor of PC related things
  
price was expected.
 
edit: won't let me link URLs? it's pccasegear dot com lol

Wow...$999 bucks?  That's way out there!

Forget that!
 
I'll  pay $800 USD and wait. Any day now guys we should see a pre-order site in the US. The Brits are doing reviews and they're pre-orders will be in at the end of the month. 
 
I'm reading nothing but awesomeness from the Brits reviews.
 
http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/displays/72229-asus-rog-swift-pg278q/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
 
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_rog_swift_pg278q.htm
 
Finally was able to upload pics to Modsrigs....sheesh what was the issue with that?
 

Zach_Novak
$999 the expected AUD price, i am anticipating to find it cheaper. We had a local review here a week ago
 
htt ps://ww w.y outub e.com/w atc h?v=a-u-6i _RJ RI
 
 
why can't i link things?

Asus stated $800 USD still not cheap but you get what you pay for most of the time.

Myst3ri0n
At this point, I don't really care about the money
Just get this damn monitor over to us already
 
It feels like we're waiting for F-35's

 
let's just not hope it fails miserably like the 22's and 35's.

dustingg

Zach_Novak
$999 the expected AUD price, i am anticipating to find it cheaper. We had a local review here a week ago
 
htt ps://ww w.y outub e.com/w atc h?v=a-u-6i _RJ RI
 
 
why can't i link things?

Asus stated $800 USD still not cheap but you get what you pay for most of the time.

Yeah, I got myself used to the idea of paying $800 for this monitor.  I don't know if I would pay anything higher than that.

I haven't seen any negative reviews yet...

i have no doubt i will be seeing gaming setups from you guys with the monitor before me... although we might be slightly closer to China :) i feel like a kid waiting for a Christmas present, except there's no specific day for Christmas... so it's worse. every review i've seen has said the TN panel is the best TN they've ever seen and unless you have a real eye it's as good as some IPS panels too. I'm glad this forum hasn't done the 'it's not an IPS panel it must be crap' discussion. i have a 2nd monitor as an IPS monitor and its fantastic to watch movies on etc... im a gamer, IPS can't give me 144hz, 1ms gtg response, g-sync etc... not opening it up for discussion just pointing out the obvious in conclusion lol.

Ack!  You guys - lol.  Every time I see an update to this thread I think "they've found a pre-order!" and I rush to see what the update is.
 
Then I get in and I think "no pre-order yet?!  I hate you ASUS!!  Quit playing with my emotions!"
 
Finally, it comes full circle after thinking about 144hz 2560 x 1440 gsync goodness and I think "I'm sorry, Asus.  I love you.  I could never hate you.  Take my money, plz!" and the vicious cycle begins anew.
 
Somebody halp me!!!!

Looks like this is now officially shipping and released: 
 
http://www.techpowerup.co...8q-gaming-monitor.html

China in mid-August and North America by end of August, 2014. Prices start from US$799 and will vary by region.
 
I'm feeling like chopped liver here in the US...what the hell Asus? I would think the US would be they're biggest market.

Manufactured in Taiwan.