according to Recent Updates from Valve (opens in new tab)the fulfillment of Steam Deck orders is about to accelerate as “many of the supply chain shortages impacting Steam Deck are gradually being resolved.” We can produce faster,” he said.
It’s unclear which component of the Steam Deck contributed to the production bottleneck, but it may have been adopted recently. (opens in new tab) A PCI Express 3.0 x2 SSD served alongside the original spec PCI Express 3.0 x4 drive in production.Valve said high-bandwidth drives were one of the bottlenecks in production late last month (opens in new tab).
If you’ve already paid your $5 deposit for the deck, this means your order is “definitely” in the Q4 2022 (October-December) delivery window—the unexpected happens Unless you don’t, you’ll almost certainly get one this year. Catastrophe. All future deck orders will continue to fill that delivery window until they finally start to ripple into next year. , your order will be processed quickly and you should receive a purchase email by the end of September.
Myself and fellow PC gamer editor Tyler Colp will continue to wait—until some point in Q4, it remains in Deckless’s oblivion.Still, it’s nice to have relative assurance that we’ll see a new console before the end of the year. good This life news doubles when it comes to product fulfillment timetables.
I still take Valve’s model over GPU fresh hell (opens in new tab) Console scalping experienced over the last few years. There is some kind of fairness promised here, and everyone lines up. My philosophers like to say that our delayed gratification when it comes to our consoles and toys might do us good too: Deck Heck might just build a bit of character.
