Now Steam Deck will ship more quickly. Today, the manufacturing team at Valve declared that they had fixed all underlying problems with Steam Deck’s supply chain.
To be clear, the company followed up and confirmed that Q3 refers to the time from July to September and Q4 covers October to December. Assuming shipping times cooperate, this means that anyone who had a Steam Deck reservation up until this point should have their portable PC before 2023.
Pre Orders that were scheduled to ship in Q4 or later have been moved up to Q3 (July-September window). Valve is also certain that everyone else in line will receive their console this year. All new orders will initially be eligible for Q4 shipping; however, once that list is filled, new orders will be eligible for Q1’23 shipping.
Message from Steam Deck Production
Hello! We’re happy to report that we will be able to accommodate demand for everyone in the reservation queue more quickly than we had anticipated. As we continue to scale up production, many of the supply chain issues that are affecting Steam Deck are gradually improving, allowing us to make more Decks faster than ever before. Everyone who is currently in the reservation queue will receive their Steam Deck email this year as we have modified the reservation windows. The “Q4 or later” window had a large number of consumers who were now in the “Q3 (July-September)” window. The “Q4 (October-December)” window is now firmly occupied by everyone else. New reservations will first fall into the Q4 bucket, but if these queues get too long, they will move into the next quarter. Please log in before visiting this site to see your reservation window.
Recently, Valve announced that it would start “doubling” the number of units it distributes to clients as it increased Steam Deck production. Even yet, this most recent change, which appears to have shifted the shipping dates for many pre-orders forward several months, represents the most obvious result of that effort for customers who have been waiting for their pre-orders for a long time.
One of the most reasonably priced portable gaming consoles available is the Steam Deck, which uses an AMD Van Gogh APU. However, Ryzen 6000-based consoles (AyaNeo2, GPD Win Max 2, etc.) may soon outperform Deck in terms of performance, but such gadgets won’t be nearly as expensive. Having said that, this information should be welcomed by anyone looking for a low-cost handheld console with the newest GPU architecture (AMD RDNA2).
