Up till now, shopping for a Steam Deck meant first buying a reservation, then ready weeks or months till you got here to the entrance of the queue earlier than you can full your buy. No longer. Valve say that they’ve elevated their manufacturing capability such which you can now purchase a Steam Deck with out a reservation.
They’ve additionally made the Steam Deck’s dock accessible to buy. It prices $80/£80 and has the identical 1-2 week supply estimate because the Deck itself.
Valve defined the entire above and extra in a brand new video:
“The workforce has labored laborious over the previous yr to deal with shortages and remedy logistics points, and due to these efforts we’re now manufacturing and transport Steam Decks at our highest fee ever,” says Valve in their announcement. “Despite the ever-increasing reservation fee, we have been in a position to beat our transport estimates, and as of as we speak, lastly full the queue.”
Steam Deck manufacturing has been dashing up over time, inflicting Valve to repeatedly revise their projected supply dates to deliver them ahead. By coincidence, I reserved a Steam Deck final week and was in a position to full my order in lower than seven days, nevertheless it’s nonetheless good that the queue is now gone fully.
The Steam Deck dock, in the meantime, allows you to plug your Steam Deck into a number of units whereas additionally displaying it upright. The dock was introduced similtaneously the Deck, however is simply accessible to buy as of as we speak. The dock features a USB-C cable for plugging into the Steam Deck, in addition to ports for energy, Gigabit Ethernet, HMDI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4 and three USB 3.1 ports. It’s most likely higher than the unofficial Steam Deck equipment James has been shopping for from Etsy.
