It is interesting that Nikon has gone hyper-pixel and Canon has backed off to 18MP, at least before a 5DIII comes out. After hearing near unanimous "stop the silly MP war", I was kind of surprised.
Ken Rockwell is practically foaming at the mouth over this one
Ken is, ummm, well, let's just say "not respected", and leave it at that, by many if not most serious shooters
The D800 is the best DSLR ever made by Nikon by a long margin,
Really, if he knows this by being one of the pre-release testers then why is he ordering one? Or if he wasn't, how does he know? It may or may not be turn out to be fantastic, but KR's blatherings don't mean much.