Valve’s Steam Deck is meant to start out delivery in December. However in the event you had been late to the pre-order celebration, you could have to brace for a good longer wait.
Within the US, Valve’s web site for Steam Deck is now saying the 512GB mannequin of the product gained’t ship till subsequent 12 months’s second or third quarter in the event you place a reservation now.
In the meantime, the provision for the 256GB mannequin and 64GB mannequin has been pushed to Q2 2022.
The shifting product availability is probably going an indication that demand for the hand held gaming PC has been huge. Pre-orders kicked off at 10am PST Friday morning by way of Valve’s web site for Steam Deck, and the web page instantly started to buckle.
At round 10:40am, we seen the provision for all three Steam Deck fashions was listed as Q1 2022 — an indicator that the preliminary batch of pre-orders had bought out. Then, by midday, the provision for the 512GB mannequin had been pushed to “Q2 2022.”
The order availability for the 512GB mannequin then reached “Q3 2022” once we checked the positioning at 4:00pm. Happily, about twenty minutes later, the positioning reverted the provision again to Q2.
Valve didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. However a user in Europe seen the order availability for all three Steam Deck fashions was nonetheless listed as Q1 2022 once they visited the positioning on Friday. So the cargo occasions could rely on the place you’re situated.
It’s also possible Valve’s website for Steam Deck is still trying to sort through the flood of orders. At the same time, the order availability on the site is an estimate, and the supply situation could change in the coming months. Nevertheless, the whole issue does make us wonder how many pre-orders will be fulfilled in December.
Three PCMag staffers did successfully place pre-orders for the Steam Deck on Friday morning before 10:15am. But so far, we haven’t received any emails from Valve confirming when the product will actually ship.
However, Valve’s website for Steam Deck does note the reservations will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis. “When you submit a reservation, you will be put in a queue. Once inventory is available, you will be emailed in the order the reservations were made,” the site says.
“We are aiming to start sending order invitations by December 2021. We will make every effort to convert all reservations to orders but we are not able to guarantee availability,” the site adds.