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In a blog post titled "Steam Deck production update (it's good news)," Valve has announced that it will be working its way through Steam Deck orders quicker than anticipated. "Many of the supply chain shortfalls that affect Steam Deck are gradually clearing up," explains the post, "and we're continuing to ramp production, so we're able to produce more Decks faster than ever before."

This means that everybody who's currently in the queue to receive a Steam Deck should get their email confirmation by the end of the year. Many people who were in the "Q4 or later" time slot have been moved up to "Q3 (July-September)" and anyone who hasn't has been put in the more definitive "Q4 (October-December" timeframe.

For the time being, new orders will be also be put into the Q4 time slot, though Valve acknowledges that "if these queues fill up" then new orders will have to wait until Q1 of 2023.

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[ertaboy356b]

Now if they just open up international pre-orders.

 

[Xzi]

Meanwhile Ninty is struggling.
Huh

Also if rumors of a successor are out already, I'd feel so ripped off if they came true any time soon...

People started talking about a successor before the first Steam Deck shipped, so I'm not worried about rumors. I'd say three years minimum before they release something new, and even then it'll probably be more expensive than the current options.

Besides, Steam Deck already does everything I want it to. Elden Ring at a locked 30 FPS. Monster Hunter Rise at a locked 60. I'm not going to use 95 GB to install FF7 Remake on my Deck, but just the fact that I could blows my mind. It's also a beastly emulation machine. Not that I couldn't be sold on a successor with the right QoL upgrades, but owning the system that first brought portable gaming into the next gen will always be cool to me.

 

[vaanen]

too bad its screen is absolute garbage and even much worse than the already bad and outdated from the start switch erista screen.

Good news tho cuz it means they will be more ready to work on the successor

 

[Stwert]

I’ll believe it when I see it it’s been a long wait, but hopefully a worthwhile one.

 

[Tweaker_Modding]

Valve obviously wants this in other countries the issue being clearly production, gpus are just starting to get back into the normal stock market as it is. I did get my email yesterday and used the getmydeck tracker and it was fairly accurate. Only waiting a year for a preorder wasn't that bad if we're being real.

https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev/

As for SteamDeck 2 rumors relax, they wouldn't release a new version just two year later after production I mean they might but still thats the game of tech even then your Deck will run just as fine as the day you got it for a good number of years.

i used that steam deck calculator/tracker and my percentage jumped from 6% to 23% in just 3 days!

depending on how accurate it is and if it jumps that high again i may get my steam deck rather soon maybe in the next few weeks or so but either way i’m hyped!

 

[K3Nv2]

i used that steam deck calculator/tracker and my percentage jumped from 6% to 23% in just 3 days!

depending on how accurate it is and if it jumps that high again i may get my steam deck rather soon maybe in the next few weeks or so but either way i’m hyped!

If it jumps to about 94% that generally means you'll get it next week

 

[Medveitsi]

i'm gonna wait for steam deck 2 or something a bit more powerfull

 

[Flame]

i'm gonna wait for steam deck 2 or something a bit more powerfull

you gonna wait a long time buddy.

 

[urbanman2004]

Good "move" on Valve's part.

 

[Medveitsi]

you gonna wait a long time buddy.

1-2 years.

 

[subcon959]

1-2 years.

Probably 2025 at the earliest to get into user's actual hands, by which time there will be plenty of newer games to make you want something a bit more powerful than the SD2.

 

[Xzi]

Probably 2025 at the earliest to get into user's actual hands, by which time there will be plenty of newer games to make you want something a bit more powerful than the SD2.

There's hardly anything more powerful than Steam Deck now for portable PCs available now, and what little there is costs double or triple. It helps that it runs on AMD just like next gen consoles, but it can play PS5 ports at a locked 30 FPS. What more could you want without sacrificing hours of battery life?

For your main gaming machine, yeah probably a console or PC. Steam Deck is akin to Switch in that it's a companion device, albeit a more complex beast outside of SteamOS 3.

 

[subcon959]

There's hardly anything more powerful than Steam Deck now for portable PCs available now, and what little there is costs double or triple. It helps that it runs on AMD just like next gen consoles, but it can play PS5 ports at a locked 30 FPS. What more could you want without sacrificing hours of battery life?

It was in response to the poster waiting for "something a bit more powerful". If that's the view then it tends to be a never ending cycle with PC parts. Always better to buy now and enjoy now is the way I tend to see it.

To be honest, I'm not confident that Nvidia or AMD are going in the right direction with their "throw as much power as possible at it to increase performance" attitude to graphics. The successor to the Steam Deck might struggle with battery life even more than now.

 

[Xzi]

The successor to the Steam Deck might struggle with battery life even more than now.

It's always a balancing act with portable systems, at least until there's a breakthrough with consumer battery technology. So yeah, just because they might stick more power in a future model doesn't mean you'll get to use it all, at least not without staying tethered to an outlet. The bigger upgrades could probably be made to things like a screen with less bezel (possibly OLED), better bumpers and power/menu/back buttons, bigger drivers for the speakers, better rumble.

 

[Sterophonick]

To be honest, I'm not confident that Nvidia or AMD are going in the right direction with their "throw as much power as possible at it to increase performance" attitude to graphics. The successor to the Steam Deck might struggle with battery life even more than now.

I very much agree with this, although I feel like if there were to be a Steam Deck successor they would use newer CPU/GPU architectures, would they not?

 

[subcon959]

I very much agree with this, although I feel like if there were to be a Steam Deck successor they would use newer CPU/GPU architectures, would they not?

Yes, it's probably going to be something that isn't available right now. According to AMD's roadmap, you could speculate that the next Steam Deck might be based on the Zen 4 Phoenix APU that is due around 23/24. However, that will have a TDP of 35 to 45 Watts so will have to be throttled quite a bit to meet battery power requirements. As mentioned, it's much more feasible to concentrate on improvements like OLED screen and more storage etc. than significantly more processing power.

 

[chaos82231]

I was getting ready to cancel my preorder for one. I'll take one if I'm guaranteed to get it this year, but middle of next year, no thanks.

 

[Marc_LFD]

I'd be interested in a Slim model although that would mean it'd be less powerful unless they'd do some magic.

 

[Xzi]

I'd be interested in a Slim model although that would mean it'd be less powerful unless they'd do some magic.

A couple other brands are filling that smaller but less powerful niche for portable PCs already. If anything I think Valve would go up in price some for a revision/successor with more "premium" features, and keep on outclassing the competition with price-to-performance ratio.

 

[eriol33]

How much import tax+var do I expect to pay if I order this from EU?