With the Steam Deck's release on Friday 25th, Valve has posted a new update for those waiting to get their hands on the handheld gaming PC. "Starting at 10am Pacific, we'll be sending emails out to the first batch of reservation holders via the address tied to their Steam account," reads the post. "Those folks will then have 72 hours to complete their purchase on Steam for the specific model they reserved. If they cancel or do not purchase in this time frame, we'll release their reservation to the next person in the queue."

Valve also notes that reviews from media outlets that received a review unit will go live around 10am Pacific too.

The post also provides an update on the Dock for Steam Deck, writing that it "won't be happening as early as we wanted". However, the company plans to make them available sometime in late spring.

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[Veho]

Deck launches Friday 25th, Dock launches late spring, Duck launches this fall.

 

[dragonmaster]

when i ordered site was droping when i succeeded to order it was on second batch of orders hope i get lucky

 

[CoolMe]

Will the dock have any special/additional hardware inside, so games can look good with TVs/monitors and with slightly high res? I hope it'll not be like the Switch dock..

 

[Axido]

Deck launches Friday 25th, Dock launches late spring, Duck launches this fall.

I have a slight feeling I know where this is going after fall.

 

[Kioku]

Deck launches Friday 25th, Dock launches late spring, Duck launches this fall.

Well, what about the Dack? Or the di-.... Oh...

 

[PewnyPL]

Will the dock have any special/additional hardware inside, so games can look good with TVs/monitors and with slightly high res? I hope it'll not be like the Switch dock..

No, the dock will just basically be a USB-C hub with Display Port output and such, it will not have any additional processing power.

 

[K3Nv2]

I have a feeling we're going to be gbadeck the next few weeks.

 

[Kioku]

Will the dock have any special/additional hardware inside, so games can look good with TVs/monitors and with slightly high res? I hope it'll not be like the Switch dock..

Imagine if Steam puts out a dock with an RTX 3060 built in. Wonder how well that'll work out in Linux.

 

[SG854]

Imagine if Steam puts out a dock with an RTX 3060 built in. Wonder how well that'll work out in Linux.

Dock with 3080 12 gb ver.

 

[Kioku]

Dock with 3080 12 gb ver.

I was thinking more affordable, but yes, I'd buy that.

 

[SonicMC]

Well I don't see thunderbolt listed in specs. So guessing probably no Dock with a GPU inside.

 

[Kioku]

Well I don't see thunderbolt listed in specs. So guessing probably no Dock with a GPU inside.

Quit being logical!

 

[diggeloid]

I think now would be a good time to double check that my Steam account password is secure and 2FA is activated. Wouldn't surprise me if scalpers have been buying up compromised Steam accounts to try and score more units.

 

[tpax]

19:00 Berlin time. I'll be there.

What I wonder, during that 72h time frame, does it matter when you complete your purchase? Or will they wait until 72h are over and then ship everything in one batch?

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Still can't buy it in Australia, BTW; screw you, Valve.

 

[Bladexdsl]

No, the dock will just basically be a USB-C hub with Display Port output and such, it will not have any additional processing power.

pretty much the same as the switch

 

[onibaku]

19:00 Berlin time. I'll be there.

What I wonder, during that 72h time frame, does it matter when you complete your purchase? Or will they wait until 72h are over and then ship everything in one batch?

I think all orders would be shipped at the same time, i remember reading that for the first wave you have 72 hours and that they'd ship it on 28th

 

[Joeynator3000]

...I thought we had like, a month or something to buy the thing...ugh, I hope I have enough money whenever mine is ready. >.>

 

[Taleweaver]

...I thought we had like, a month or something to buy the thing...ugh, I hope I have enough money whenever mine is ready. >.>

I'm fairly sure this deadline isn't going to last. Once all the initial preorders have gone through and presuming there's still units, you can just order it when you want.

It's hard to guess when that'll be, though. But for the moment, it's kind of unfair to the others waiting in line to just have valve have others waiting while some take up to a month to decide whether or not they want to buy something.