Valve’s Steam Deck is gradually shipping to pre-orderers. For the second quarter of 2022, the manufacturer has good news for you.
Valve’s Steam Deck has been struggling with delivery bottlenecks since its release. Pre-orderers sometimes have to wait until the third quarter of 2022 until they are likely to get their handheld console. In order to shorten the waiting time, Valve is gradually increasing production, which is already showing the first effects.
On Twitter, the official Steam Deck account announced that the first emails have gone out to pre-orderers who are expected to receive their console in the second quarter. In doing so, Valve is processing the orders in the order in which they were received. When pre-orderers receive such an email, they have 72 hours to purchase the Steam Deck, otherwise the order will expire and they will have to re-queue.
In addition, Valve wants to speed up the delivery process. In the tweet, the company announces that there should be more shipments in the second quarter. Sometimes there will even be two batches of pre-order emails per week instead of just one, as is currently the case. You can see the whole tweet here:
Welcome to Q2! We’ve just sent out the first set of order emails to Q2 reservers (in order of reservation time). Starting today we’re ramping up Steam Deck shipments, and will be sending more order availability emails every week. Sometimes even twice a week! pic.twitter.com/54TAoCQXfd
– Steam Deck (@OnDeck) April 4, 2022
In addition, Valve has updated the information on the official (Steam Deck website). Pre-orderers can now see here which months include quarters two and three, so it’s easier to estimate when the Steam Deck will arrive.
For new orderers, the After Quarter 3 (October 2022 or later) info is now available for all three variants of the Steam Deck. So if you order now, you’ll have to wait until at least October before you can hold your own deck in your hands. Until then, you can get all the technical info here:
The production of the Steam Deck should become faster and faster
In an interview in February, Lawrence Yang, UX designer at Valve told (IGN) (via The Verge) that Steam Deck production is moving faster and faster. According to the report, Valve produced tens of thousands of Steam Decks in the first month, hundreds of thousands in the second month, and production is expected to continue to increase.
Of course we hope that Valve will be able to fulfil all pre-orders with this production and that sooner or later we will be able to order the Steam Deck completely without waiting.
Have you pre-ordered a Steam Deck or do you think a handheld PC is unnecessary? What is the maximum amount of time you would wait for the Steam Deck? Feel free to let us know
