Valve Says Everyone With a Steam Deck Reservation Will Get Their Console by End of Year

Good information for PC gaming followers desirous to play laying down! Valve has introduced will probably be in a position to fulfill the demand for the Steam Deck, its handheld gaming console, ahead of initially estimated.

Anyone at present within the reservation queue ought to count on a Steam Deck e mail, the place they’ll be capable of truly affirm their order, by the tip of the 12 months. In a blog post, the corporate credited enhancements within the provide chain for serving to it fulfill demand—for this 12 months, anyway. Valve writes:

Many clients who have been within the “Q4 or later” window have been bumped as much as “Q3 (July-September)“ window. And everyone else is now solidly in the “Q4 (October-December)“ window.

If the sudden availability is enough to make you consider forking over money now, be careful. Anyone who reserves the Steam Deck now will be thrown into the “Q4 bucket,” which implies shipments will exit towards the tip of the 12 months. Naturally, these reservations will roll over into the following 12 months if the bucket fills up, so I wouldn’t hinge your vacation gift-giving plans round this explicit console.

If you’re nonetheless up for the wait, log in along with your Steam account to make a reservation. Once items develop into out there, you’ll obtain an e mail and have 72 hours to finish the acquisition.

We cherished the Steam Deck once we reviewed it earlier this 12 months, even when it didn’t really feel prepared for prime time. The 7-inch handheld console can play many of the PC video games out there in Steam’s library with no or little points. Since it’s based mostly on Linux, you may as well use it to browse the online, stream music, or watch movies. It additionally helps varied outputs, so you’ll be able to join it to a TV or monitor should you’re touring or at a buddy’s and need to deliver gaming on the go. Best of all, you don’t should be linked to the web to play.

The Steam Deck is on the market in three configurations: a 64GB model with eMMC-based storage for $400; a 256GB model with SSD-based storage for $530; and a 512GB model with SSD-based storage for $650. Each degree has various perks, too, although all of them have the identical estimated availability date.