Valve Delays Steam Deck Console Shipments to February

[AleksandarK]

Valve's highly-anticipated handheld gaming console, Steam Deck, is facing a two-month delay. According to the latest news from the company, the console will not be in time for holidays and will get delayed by two months to February. Suppose you are wondering what the reason behind it is. In that case, Valve says that "we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren't reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates." These consequences are understandable, given the issues many companies face with the global supply chain and the overall scarcity of components still ruling the market.

If you have pre-ordered a Steam Deck device, rest assured that your reservation will get shipped accordingly, just with a two-month delay. Valve states that "Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement." For more information, please head over to the Steam Deck website.


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[Nephilim666]

Gives the knock off companies time to get their clones ready.

 

[Space Lynx]

not to mention the APU in this thing will be outdated by two generations by the time its in anyones hands. yuck.

 

[Broken Processor]

I hope this thing is a success and they make lots more games work on Linux.

 

[Space Lynx]

I hope this thing is a success and they make lots more games work on Linux.

its already a success. they have enough preorders to make it so.

i'm not buying it though, i'd rather just do a NUC build with the next gen APU coming out next year. and a mini type c portable screen. it will run circles around this performance wise. sure it won't look as nice and won't be as easily portable, but meh. battery life gaming is a joke anyway imo, which is why gaming laptops need to get rid of batteries and add more cooling.

 

[Ravenas]

not to mention the APU in this thing will be outdated by two generations by the time its in anyones hands. yuck.

The resolution is 1280 x 800. It has FSR. I don't think the APU is going to be struggling.

 

[Dux]

I wonder how many people are already canceling their pre orders.

 

[neatfeatguy]

Oh noes! What will the scalpers do that wanted extra Christmas time money?

 

[Space Lynx]

The resolution is 1280 x 800. It has FSR. I don't think the APU is going to be struggling.

no freesync = choppy gameplay on titles it will struggle to run like cyberpunk 2077. that's the real killer imo.

 

[mechtech]

Valve you missed the Christmas season with these………just like HL3.

 

[Nordic]

no freesync = choppy gameplay on titles it will struggle to run like cyberpunk 2077. that's the real killer imo.

Do you feel smart pointing out that a small little handheld apu is going to struggle to play incredibly performance intensive games?

For 95% of modern games, this should have adequate performance. Almost nobody is going to buy this to play games like cyberpunk. Not being able to play a few games is no big loss. Most will use their PC for those games.

I personally intend to use my steam deck to play older games in my steam library that I have yet to play. Playing bioshock 2 recently on my 5950x / gtx 1060 system was such overkill. I will probably do some console emulation too.

Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?

 

[15th Warlock]

I made my reservation on day one, I don't plan on using it for running the latest games, I actually am excited to be able to run old games in my steam library I never was able to finish before.

Another thing I plan on doing with it is using it to run emulators, it should be able to easily emulate all classic systems up to GameCube and perhaps PS3.

I won't be running cyberpunk or Forza 5 on it, I have my laptop and main systems for that, this is a system I can take with me when I travel and comfortably use it in a plane, or even at work while in between patients.

Sucks having to wait two months, but the way the world is going, I'm not surprised at all.

 

[Ravenas]

I made my reservation on day one, I don't plan on using it for running the latest games, I actually am excited to be able to run old games in my steam library I never was able to finish before.

Another thing I plan on doing with it is using it to run emulators, it should be able to easily emulate all classic systems up to GameCube and perhaps PS3.

I won't be running cyberpunk or Forza 5 on it, I have my laptop and main systems for that, this is a system I can take with me when I travel and comfortably use it in a plane, or even at work while in between patients.

Sucks having to wait two months, but the way the world is going, I'm not surprised at all.

I'm holding my reservation as well.

 

[Space Lynx]

Do you feel smart pointing out that a small little handheld apu is going to struggle to play incredibly performance intensive games?

For 95% of modern games, this should have adequate performance. Almost nobody is going to buy this to play games like cyberpunk. Not being able to play a few games is no big loss. Most will use their PC for those games.

I personally intend to use my steam deck to play older games in my steam library that I have yet to play. Playing bioshock 2 recently on my 5950x / gtx 1060 system was such overkill. I will probably do some console emulation too.

Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?

perhaps Valve shouldn't brag in its marketing campaigns how it can handle any game it throws at it then? 30 fps isn't handling it... but mmk keep your delusions. 165 fps 165hz only for me. smooth as butta bb

 

[Nordic]

perhaps Valve shouldn't brag in its marketing campaigns how it can handle any game it throws at it then? 30 fps isn't handling it... but mmk keep your delusions. 165 fps 165hz only for me. smooth as butta bb

I will keep my realistic expectations of adequate performance and you will keep your unnecessary elitist attitude mmk.

I will be enjoying my steam deck while you continue crying because it doesn't have 165 fps 165hz.

 

[Space Lynx]

I will keep my realistic expectations of adequate performance and you will keep your unnecessary elitist attitude mmk.

I will be enjoying my steam deck while you continue crying because it doesn't have 165 fps 165hz.

its not elitist to want nice things. same reason its not elitist i want to buy a new 2022 toyota corolla instead of driving a toyota corolla from 1999, its a different experience.

 

[InhaleOblivion]

Damn I was one of the Dec 2021 pre-orders. Oh well at least they didn't force us to reserve again. It's better to release a few months later and actually have units than a paper launch and having customers who pre-ordered upset that they haven't recieved their SteamDeck. Plus this gives them additional time to have more games supported, especially with multiplayer titles and various anti-cheating systems.

 

[Chomiq]

I like what it means to Linux gaming but I don't need a mobile device.

 

[Nordic]

its not elitist to want nice things. same reason its not elitist i want to buy a new 2022 toyota corolla instead of driving a toyota corolla from 1999, its a different experience.

That is not at all a fair comparison. You have to make a lot of compromises to fit into a handheld device and keep the product at a reasonable cost. It is suspected that valve is selling these with minimal profit as is, if any profit for the low end option. What you consider to be "nice things" are unreasonable in this form factor and price point.

You are asking for Lamborghini performance from a moped. You aren't going to get that performance in this form factor for a number of years and not at all for a reasonable price. A moped is small, mobile, and affordable. A moped has adequate performance for a lot of people. You are not one of those people. No one is ever going to make an affordable handheld device with the performance you are asking for.

The performance you are demanding is unreasonable to ask for, and to demand for no less than that performance is hopelessly elitist. Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?

 

[Space Lynx]

That is not at all a fair comparison. You have to make a lot of compromises to fit into a handheld device and keep the product at a reasonable cost. It is suspected that valve is selling these with minimal profit as is, if any profit for the low end option. What you consider to be "nice things" are unreasonable in this form factor and price point.

You are asking for Lamborghini performance from a moped. You aren't going to get that performance in this form factor for a number of years and not at all for a reasonable price. A moped is small, mobile, and affordable. A moped has adequate performance for a lot of people. You are not one of those people. No one is ever going to make an affordable handheld device with the performance you are asking for.

The performance you are demanding is unreasonable to ask for, and to demand for no less than that performance is hopelessly elitist. Why spend your time harping on hardware you never intend to buy or use? Do you think those of us who reserved the hardware on TPU do not know what we are getting?

asking for freesync is not unreasonable, sorry but it would have cost them like maybe $10 more to add it in, and I bet you most people would have been willing to pay $10 more. linux works with freesync/gsync just fine these days on many distro's, in fact i believe its auto turned on in linux mint now if it detects it. so yeah... no excuses cause of OS either... freesync is a game change and has been for many years now, we take its smoothness for granted these days.

 

[swirl09]

Do you feel smart pointing out that a small little handheld apu is going to struggle to play incredibly performance intensive games?

For 95% of modern games, this should have adequate performance. Almost nobody is going to buy this to play games like cyberpunk. Not being able to play a few games is no big loss. Most will use their PC for those games.

Yeah this one is a head scratcher for me. Its the same reason given for why a top tier GPU still isnt ok for high res gaming, its always the "next one" will be able. Because you can name a couple of titles that cant be crushed at 4K maxed out is not a valid reason for declaring a GPU a failure or incapable of gaming at 4K.

That this handheld wont play intensive stuff at 60fps doesnt matter. Considering whats in it and its price, its fine. Im headed towards 2K games in Steam alone, do you think being restricted to 1800+ titles is that awful? Im fine with it. If anything, I couldnt see myself wanting to play something thats so demanding on a handheld - simply because I have the hardware to play it on a very capable 4K rig. Streaming to the device is also an option.

I personally intend to use my steam deck to play older games in my steam library that I have yet to play. I will probably do some console emulation too.

Same! Should be an excellent way to replay old console favourites.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

perhaps Valve shouldn't brag in its marketing campaigns how it can handle any game it throws at it then? 30 fps isn't handling it... but mmk keep your delusions. 165 fps 165hz only for me. smooth as butta bb

Again with the vitreous comments , Linus found different, but hardware isn't in hands so no need for diffinutive bs statements eh.

 

[Space Lynx]

Again with the vitreous comments , Linus found different, but hardware isn't in hands so no need for diffinutive bs statements eh.

linus spends his time on 80 grand gold layered controllers, I really don't care about his opinion, but thanks. nice use of vocabulary by the way, learn some intellectual humility, or perhaps your hubris has no bounds. who knows such things, perhaps your phenomenological understanding is better than mine.

 

[Ravenas]

linus spends his time on 80 grand gold layered controllers, I really don't care about his opinion, but thanks. nice use of vocabulary by the way, learn some intellectual humility, or perhaps your hubris has no bounds. who knows such things, perhaps your phenomenological understanding is better than mine.

I think where you've gone over the line is expecting a handheld device to be able to run Cyberpunk, which most consumer PCs with dedicated GPUs are unable to run at max settings. Current generation dGPUs are unable to run Cyberpunk at 4K max settings with 60 FPS without DLSS or FSR, and it scales accordingly based on the dGPU target user.

The Freesync argument and the ability to run Cyberpunk were two separated comments by you. I'm not here to discuss Freesync, I'm here to discuss your intent for running a game on a handheld device which is unable to be ran on current dGPUs properly. It's not just an opinion of the device being unacceptable because of its capability, it's trying to make something happen which isn't possible with current technology across the board.

Whether you want to get in a tick for tack on personal insults with other users is up to you, but at least keep your expectations based on reality.

However, just to step in to the Freesync argument. The device will likely not be producing frames much faster than the monitor will be displaying them, ESPECIALLY in regard to Cyberpunk. So, the desire for Freesync in regards to Cyberpunk is really just mute.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

linus spends his time on 80 grand gold layered controllers, I really don't care about his opinion, but thanks. nice use of vocabulary by the way, learn some intellectual humility, or perhaps your hubris has no bounds. who knows such things, perhaps your phenomenological understanding is better than mine.

Am I the one dipping my toe in threads about hardware I have clearly shown a dislike for, shitposting about others choices , despite the fact it's not out yet or reviewed?!.

I don't like the new Intel cores but you won't see me pop in every thread about them to call them shit just because I think they are.


Ewwww 30fps , check my epean it says no, wtaf, get out of your arse, Linus found 60 possible in most titles he tested, all, no, but my Vega64 doesn't do 60 FPS in cyberpunk either but AHH well.