Thursday, November 11th 2021
Valve Delays Steam Deck Console Shipments to February
Valve's highly-anticipated handheld gaming console, Steam Deck, is facing a two-month delay. According to the latest news from the company, the console will not be in time for holidays and will get delayed by two months to February. Suppose you are wondering what the reason behind it is. In that case, Valve says that "we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren't reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates." These consequences are understandable, given the issues many companies face with the global supply chain and the overall scarcity of components still ruling the market.
If you have pre-ordered a Steam Deck device, rest assured that your reservation will get shipped accordingly, just with a two-month delay. Valve states that "Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement." For more information, please head over to the Steam Deck website.
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Steam Deck Website
If you have pre-ordered a Steam Deck device, rest assured that your reservation will get shipped accordingly, just with a two-month delay. Valve states that "Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement." For more information, please head over to the Steam Deck website.
37 Comments on Valve Delays Steam Deck Console Shipments to February
i'm not buying it though, i'd rather just do a NUC build with the next gen APU coming out next year. and a mini type c portable screen. it will run circles around this performance wise. sure it won't look as nice and won't be as easily portable, but meh. battery life gaming is a joke anyway imo, which is why gaming laptops need to get rid of batteries and add more cooling.
For 95% of modern games, this should have adequate performance. Almost nobody is going to buy this to play games like cyberpunk. Not being able to play a few games is no big loss. Most will use their PC for those games.
I personally intend to use my steam deck to play older games in my steam library that I have yet to play. Playing bioshock 2 recently on my 5950x / gtx 1060 system was such overkill. I will probably do some console emulation too.
Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?
Another thing I plan on doing with it is using it to run emulators, it should be able to easily emulate all classic systems up to GameCube and perhaps PS3.
I won't be running cyberpunk or Forza 5 on it, I have my laptop and main systems for that, this is a system I can take with me when I travel and comfortably use it in a plane, or even at work while in between patients.
Sucks having to wait two months, but the way the world is going, I'm not surprised at all.
I will be enjoying my steam deck while you continue crying because it doesn't have 165 fps 165hz.
You are asking for Lamborghini performance from a moped. You aren't going to get that performance in this form factor for a number of years and not at all for a reasonable price. A moped is small, mobile, and affordable. A moped has adequate performance for a lot of people. You are not one of those people. No one is ever going to make an affordable handheld device with the performance you are asking for.
The performance you are demanding is unreasonable to ask for, and to demand for no less than that performance is hopelessly elitist. Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?
That this handheld wont play intensive stuff at 60fps doesnt matter. Considering whats in it and its price, its fine. Im headed towards 2K games in Steam alone, do you think being restricted to 1800+ titles is that awful? Im fine with it. If anything, I couldnt see myself wanting to play something thats so demanding on a handheld - simply because I have the hardware to play it on a very capable 4K rig. Streaming to the device is also an option.Same! Should be an excellent way to replay old console favourites.
The Freesync argument and the ability to run Cyberpunk were two separated comments by you. I'm not here to discuss Freesync, I'm here to discuss your intent for running a game on a handheld device which is unable to be ran on current dGPUs properly. It's not just an opinion of the device being unacceptable because of its capability, it's trying to make something happen which isn't possible with current technology across the board.
Whether you want to get in a tick for tack on personal insults with other users is up to you, but at least keep your expectations based on reality.
However, just to step in to the Freesync argument. The device will likely not be producing frames much faster than the monitor will be displaying them, ESPECIALLY in regard to Cyberpunk. So, the desire for Freesync in regards to Cyberpunk is really just mute.
I don't like the new Intel cores but you won't see me pop in every thread about them to call them shit just because I think they are.
Ewwww 30fps , check my epean it says no, wtaf, get out of your arse, Linus found 60 possible in most titles he tested, all, no, but my Vega64 doesn't do 60 FPS in cyberpunk either but AHH well.
Freesync has nothing to do with frames in excess of the monitors refresh rate, it makes dips from 60 fps to 40 fps (which will happen a lot with a weak device like this) feel more smooth, you wouldn't notice the dips as often with freesync, freesync is critical for a device like this to feel smooth when gaming.
He insulted me first, so eh. I like what I like, and that is high refresh, nothing wrong with that.I don't like the new Intel e-cores either. I will say, if Steam had added another $50-70 to the price tag and made it an OLED screen, due to the 0.1ms latency of OLED, freesync would not have been needed and overall quality and game immersion improved. Just my two cents though. Gaming is an Art Form, the hardware makers, sadly are usually not artists.