I doubt they will be available to general public for at least a year. I would not ge too excited. And getting retail price in current conditions is even more problematic.
They got back to me about the dev kit.
They are rare as hens teeth and they could possibly loan me one for a short time if I really wanted it. But I said I'll wait until it's generally available otherwise there isn't much point doing a video on it on something no one can get.
It seems to me that the most important selection criteria is development software with an unlimited license. I went through the debacle when UCSD canceled the Pascal licenses and it was ugly. I stayed away from Atmel for years because the terms of the license included a clause where they could cancel the license at any time for any reason or no reason at all. I'm not going to spend any time or money on a device that uses a toolchain that can be yanked at any time.
The next criteria would be the availability of several levels of development boards - exactly like what I can get from Digilent. I can get an Artix 7 board in several flavors with varying amounts of IO and gadgets. Personally, I want a LOT of gadgets: 7 segment displays, pushbuttons, slide switches, GPIO and, by all means, onboard programming via USB.
In a distant third place is price. Yes, the boards I select are expensive but I'm only going to buy one (maybe two) and they can be serially reused for future projects. I look at the cost as 'future proofing'. But that's just me.
Yes, I'm stuck in the Xilinx camp but I have played with the Lattice ICE40HX1K-STICK-EVN and it's a nice, albeit small, board for $49 (Out Of Stock at DigiKey).
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/lattice-semiconductor-corporation/ICE40HX1K-STICK-EVN/4289604I prefer the Digilent A7 board even though it is 4 times as expensive. It has more than 4 times the the utility as well and I buy the 100T variant.
https://digilent.com/shop/boards-and-components/system-boards/fpga-boards/I also have the Basys 3 and Arty boards along with the Cmod A7 but the Cmod is only available in a 35T variant. I like the virtual dumpster idea and prefer the larger chips even though I don't really need them.
I seem to be stuck in Xilinx land...
As I said above, price is my 3rd place selection criteria.