Steam Deck Q3 invites are all out early as Valve beats own production estimates (again)

I need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

What a wonderful piece of news. My life expectancy just got a few seconds longer! Also I could finally escape from the hangman's noose which was around my neck so the reaper can wait for another day to collect my soul. Thanks for the news, master! Btw I bought steam deck but the postman keeps me waiting. Maybe tomorrow it will come....

Another possible explanation would be, that the demand is less then they thought.

They don't have the resources for to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck....

This centralized method will fail.

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThey don't have the resources for to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck....

This centralized method will fail.

I'm quite confident it is a success already.

And while, quite obviously, they don't have the resources to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck immediately,
just as obviously, they do have the resources to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck sooner or later.

Quoting: einherjarAnother possible explanation would be, that the demand is less then they thought.

It's possible that the demand is less than they thought, but that would not be an explanation for this.

The situation is that we had X numbers of preorders which were expected to take N long to fill. Now those same preorders are going to take N-something long to fill. This is not about previously unknown demand levels. The only two explanations are, first, what they claimed directly and we have no reason to disbelieve: That they increased production faster than they had expected (read: Faster than they had been willing to claim for fear of falling short if they boosted expectations too high). Or, second, that for some reason a whole lot of people with preorders dropped them. But that seems fairly unlikely because the thing has been getting pretty good press, buzz, and reactions from owners as far as I can tell--so why would someone who had bought the hype to the extent of preordering give up on it? It's sure to have happened, but not at unexpected levels.

(On the separate issue, it seems unlikely that the demand is less than they thought, because it seems to have been selling briskly, and they recently claimed the number of orders has been rising. What is possible is that their Asian launch won't be that successful, but that's yet to be seen)

Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.

GoL had an article on it a little while ago.

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.

Then let me drop some tips...

* Voodoo_ Detective
* Intruder In Antiquonia
* Nine Noir Lives
* Lucy Dreaming
* PRIM
* A Trail of Ooze
* Rosewater

... and, obviously...

* Return to Monkey Island! (soon to be ported)

I cannot vouch for all of them, but I'll buy them sooner or later. Some have/had good demos.
It's a good time for point and click!


Last edited by Eike on 21 September 2022 at 8:56 am UTC

Quoting: cookiEoverdoseI'd like to see an easy way to set up Deck UI grid, background, logo and icon images for added non-steam games or flatpak apps. https://www.steamgriddb.com could be a source. Did someone try SGDBoop?

SDGBoop is pretty great if you don't have a large library, because you do still have to go through manually 1 game at a time. I used a batch tool to fix all the artwork I didn't have - many games didn't update to the new grid style and it is a little irksome.

I ended up using this tool here and it was actually quite easy.

Some tips:

• After extracting the tool, delete the "overlays by category" folder unless you want them.
  

• Grab an api key from www.steamgriddb.com - you have to be logged in to do this, which you can do with your steam account. After you login, click on your account name (top right), preferences, then API.

• Go into the directory you extracted the tool into and use a command something like this:  sudo ./steamgrid -steamdir /home/deck/.steam/steam -nonsteamonly --steamgriddb 123h2u3i12u31i --onlymissingartwork But, replace that string after --steamgriddb with your own API key. Those flags declare where the steam library is, where to get the artwork from (steamgriddb), dictate to collect art for only non-steam games, and only for those games with missing art.

• Restart Steam to see the changes. Rerun this command in the future if you acquire more games which need art. Super easy!