Curious to know when exactly you'll get a Steam Deck? A lot of people asked and so Valve has given a little more info. While the Steam Deck has now released, it could still be a little while before you get your hands on a unit even if you're in the Q1 slot.
As a reminder: when Valve send you an email to invite you to actually make the purchase, you have 72 hours to go through with it or you entirely lose your place and it goes to the next person.
Here's what they said:
- All people who are in the Q1 reservation window on the Steam Deck store page will receive an order email by the end of March. (Q1 is Quarter 1, or January through March).
- The first batch of emails has already gone out this morning.
- The next batch of emails will go out on Monday, March 7th. (It turns out the logistics work out better if we don’t try to ship over a weekend.)
- We’ll continue sending emails to Q1 reservers in the order their reservations were made on a weekly basis through the end of March (March 14th, 21st, 28th)
- In April, we’ll start going through the Q2 queue in a similar fashion.
For those of you who have a date of sometime after Q2, Valve said to expect more news on that "soon".
My own personal unit of the top-end model is in the Q1 slot, so I'll be able to make some proper comparisons on the screen quality between the models eventually for you. Valve did email out this morning to confirm my review unit is for keeps, so expect a lot more regular Steam Deck content from me.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Feb 26, 2022
Quoting: PhiladelphusThis is the way I look at it. I'm in the 'Q2' window, but it isn't like I don't have a plethora of other things to do in the meantime. So it'll be nice to have the SteamOS3.0 we can play with.QuoteFor those of you who have a date of sometime after Q2, Valve said to expect more news on that "soon"."After Q2" gang represent!Ah, well, nothing to do but compose my soul in patience. At least it sounds like we'll get a more stable product with more of the bugs ironed out. Swings and roundabouts, I suppose…
Quoting: Pendragonwait so they're only doing weekly emails? oof. .that's going to take a long time.. I thought they would be cycling thru
I assume they are sending more than one email per batch...
BlackBloodRum Feb 27, 2022
Now consider they've got an estimated 800k orders to process.. don't expect it quickly and stick to those Q1/Q2 times, don't expect it sooner.
Put bluntly, don't expect your decks any time soon. If you're in "After Q2" like me, you're definitely not getting it until at least 2023. With that said, I was in Q2 before being bumped to the "whenever we feel like it" group prior to the delay but I still don't expect it until at least 2023, I'm not holding my hopes up for a delivery this year.
But that's fine, I'm happy to wait until next year
.Last edited by BlackBloodRum on 27 February 2022 at 7:02 am UTC
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