Saturday, July 30th 2022
Valve Confirms Steam Deck Customers to Receive Their Devices Within 2022
Valve's Steam Deck has been a resounding success by any metric, providing an impressive mobile gaming experience at Valve's first try. However, not all has been rosy: particularly for those customers that still haven't been able to receive their Steam Deck order. It's not just a demand problem; for a long while, Valve's hands were tied in the number of Steam Decks they could actually put together, due to continuing electronics component shortages that followed the COVID-19 tech race - paired with logistics nightmares fueled by constant lockdowns and limited transport operations around the globe.
But customers still awaiting their Steam Deck can now take a slight more hopeful outlook, as the company has confirmed via Twitter that all outstanding Steam Deck orders will be fulfilled before year's end. Through improvements to both logistics and manufacturing capacity, many of the reservations previously scheduled for 2Q2022 or later have been moved towards 3Q (July-September). All orders that weren't moved to 3Q are now solidly in Q4, according to the company. Valve has also confirmed that new orders will also be scheduled for 4Q. Do count on a hard limit to how many Steam Decks Valve can fit within it, though, so if you really, really want a Steam Deck before year's end, you better move fast.
Sources:
Valve @ Twitter, via Tom's Hardware
But customers still awaiting their Steam Deck can now take a slight more hopeful outlook, as the company has confirmed via Twitter that all outstanding Steam Deck orders will be fulfilled before year's end. Through improvements to both logistics and manufacturing capacity, many of the reservations previously scheduled for 2Q2022 or later have been moved towards 3Q (July-September). All orders that weren't moved to 3Q are now solidly in Q4, according to the company. Valve has also confirmed that new orders will also be scheduled for 4Q. Do count on a hard limit to how many Steam Decks Valve can fit within it, though, so if you really, really want a Steam Deck before year's end, you better move fast.
58 Comments on Valve Confirms Steam Deck Customers to Receive Their Devices Within 2022
They emailed me mine was ready, told them to fuck off and release the next one properly next time.
I don't kowtow to this waiting list shit. Ever. I can't believe even a single one if you would buy it after all this time.It's a POS.
Just say it.
The hardware is a joke. 4 cores in 2022?
That's why Valve would welcome with open arms any handheld that wants to ship with SteamOS. In fact it's genius to offer a baseline to keep the competition pricing in check while you make a buttload of money out of software sales.
The 6800U isn't going to be twice as fast as Aerith. The GPD WinMax 2 6800U has been reviewed and it isn't.
Officially storage expansion doesnt seem to be supported, unofficially? dont know,
The 64gig model seems a bad buy even at release as there is some games bigger then that.
Some units come with a slower storage, they state no impact to performance in testing, but a lottery like that doesnt seem right.
Value for money in this market not horrible.
Controller buttons part of unit, I remember my wii-u having sticky buttons and they did not always react when pressed (poor QA), problem in this scenario if your controller is a failed QA the whole unit needs to be replaced.
Its not terrible though and also with the energy crisis it has merit there as well. Its also a platform that has longevity. Steam is unlikely to expire any time soon, so this device should have a long lifespan in that respect. Its obsolescence will be if it ceases to be powerful enough to play games you want to play on it.
On the reservation, I think allowing people to reserve a unit is better than it simply been delisted with tiny order windows like we had on the PS5.