Valve's highly anticipated handheld gaming PC, the Steam Deck met with some production delays but appears to be on track to ship by the end of next month. In its latest update, the company says that they're "on track to ship Steam Deck on time". "Global pandemic, supply issues, and shipping issues notwithstanding, it looks like we'll be able to start getting these out the door by the end of February," further notes the blog post. They also shared a picture of the first units in-house to test and evaluate (see above).

In its update, Valve also notes that they've been rolling out the Steam Deck Verified program and shipping dev kits to have game developers to test their games and have a green Verified check to show compatibility with the console. They are checking 4 major categories (input, seamlessness, display, and system support) and Steam users will soon be able to see Deck Verified status for Steam games.

With Valve's latest hardware a couple of weeks away, it will be interesting to see how well it performs, especially since the handheld PC gaming market has been growing with competitors like the ONEXPLAYER mini and AYA NEO NEXT.

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[RedoLane]

We're almost there. I bet they had all hands on deck for the last push.

 

[sloppycrap]

They announced on ship day last year that they weren't going to ship on ship day, right? I put my $5 down late enough that I'm pretty much last in line, so I can expect to be able to buy mine around a year from now

I was so ready to hand my Vita off to my kids, that's not going to happen anytime soon

 

[Shenrai]

When can I actually pay for this already?

 

[Clydefrosch]

wouldn't do them any good to admit it's gonna be delayed now when they could also say it at the end of february

 

[diggeloid]

That army of Steam Decks running KDE Plasma is the sexiest thing I have ever seen on the internet.

 

[sloppycrap]

fuck this

 

[MariArch]

I'm very excited for this. Here's hoping that this is a very successful system so Proton-Linux can finally get the support it deserves from these big game developers.

 

[sloppycrap]

wouldn't do them any good to admit it's gonna be delayed now when they could also say it at the end of february

 

[KingVamp]

Well, they could also just not say anything until then, if they think it could be delayed.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

I won't get this right away, but I will keep my eye on it since it does seem like a very interesting piece of tech gaming.

 

[sloppycrap]

I'm very excited for this. Here's hoping that this is a very successful system so Proton-Linux can finally get the support it deserves from these big game developers.

Haha no. You playing games on Linux is a cost sink, they're not ever going to recoup their investment in porting their games to Linux, they barely make enough money to pay for the hundreds of millions of dollars their C-Suites spend on hookers and blow.

 

[Catastrophic]

Yes Valve set fire to Nintendos ass do it now!

 

[WG481]

We're almost there. I bet they had all hands on deck for the last push.

*badum tssss*

 

[sloppycrap]

Yo @AncientBoi don't get mad at me, I thought the picture was funny, but it's against everything I believe. The storyline of Mr. Robot got worse over the years, that show should have been a one (season) and done. Season 1 was a powerful show about mental illness, everything else was interesting but not helpful. The whole show is worth watching, but after season 1 it turned into what you'd think it would be, unfortunately.

 

[HellGhast]

We're almost there. I bet they had all hands on deck for the last push.

Yes, they had to go full Steam ahead.

 

[AncientBoi]

Yo @AncientBoi don't get mad at me, I thought the picture was funny, but it's against everything I believe. The storyline of Mr. Robot got worse over the years, that show should have been a one (season) and done. Season 1 was a powerful show about mental illness, everything else was interesting but not helpful. The whole show is worth watching, but after season 1 it turned into what you'd think it would be, unfortunately.

I was referring to the words Faggot. I am one. And then to the "White Power". I don't take to that very well.

 

[sloppycrap]

I'm right there with you, dude, I apologize. I'm interested in women and not men, and my father is Black, and my mother is White, and I've been working on this for almost fifty years. I understand that America is against us. And I can't use the N-Word because that would just get my account deleted.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

This piece of news literally is: "Nothing happened, nothing changed."

 

[MikaDubbz]

And only like 5 competitors have come out in the time since the delay! Seriously, I don't get why people are so obsessed only with the Steam Deck when there are now like 10 different kinds of devices just like it. It's probably the best overall deal, but you'd think it was the first of it's kind the way people talk about it.