Announced last July, Valve’s “console” should receive its first commercial copies in December. But you start to know the song: the plans that can change at any time.
For a few hours now, users who have booked their Steam Deck have been able to confirm receipt of an email with bad news. In fact, Valve has announced that the first copies of its Switch-like machine will finally be shipping from February 2022. This 2 month postponement is explained in the same way as the delivery problems with video game consoles and general high technology. The world is slowing down because of a certain virus. And the components are slow to arrive.
The launch of Steam Deck has been delayed by two months, we apologize for the delay. We have done our best to avoid global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components are not arriving at our manufacturing facilities on time for us to meet deadlines.
We have updated our construction time estimates and assume that the first Steam Deck deliveries can be made in February 2022, the new start date for the reservation queue. You will keep your place in the queue, but the corresponding order dates will be postponed accordingly. They will be updated shortly after this announcement.
Valve says it is working on improving turnaround times. A surprise is always possible. The agenda is upset by the same deadline for everyone. Your place in the queue remains the same. For those of you who finally cracked it on July 19, 2021, the order will be possible from the 2nd quarter of 2022. But surely you don’t care about my life. And you are right.
Steam deck … alé
In case you haven’t followed it, the Steam Deck is a laptop PC with a 7-inch LCD screen clocked at 1280 x 800 @ 60 Hz and an integrated APU processor from AMD with Zen 2 with 4 cores / 8 threads, clocked between 2.4 and 3.5 GHz and RDNA 2 to 8 CPUs between 1 and 1.6 GHz and 16 GB LPDDR5. A good bike we could say to walk anywhere with its Steam toy library.
Remember that there are three different offers, which are described below:
For 419 dollars:
- a model with 64 GB eMM storage
- a carrying case
For 549 dollars:
- 256 GB NVMe SSD storage
- a carrying case
- an exclusive profile package from the Steam community
For 679 dollars:
- 512 GB NVMe SSD storage
- a glass with excellent anti-reflective treatment
- an exclusive carrier bag
- an exclusive profile package from the Steam community
- an exclusive virtual keyboard theme
Finally, note that if you’ve put a coin on it before and want to know the arrival window in your mailbox, just leave la page du Steam Deck sur Steam. When you log into your account in the reservation field, you will be reminded of the date of your reservation and the estimated period.
