Steam Deck Delayed to February 2022 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 10 November 2021 / 2,571 Views
Valve announced the launch of the Steam Deck by two months to February 2022 due to the global supply chain issues.
"The launch of Steam Deck will be delayed by two months," said Valve in a blog post. "We’re sorry about this—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.
"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.
"Again, we’re sorry we won’t be able to make our original ship date. We’ll continue working to improve reservation dates based on the new timeline, and will keep folks updated as we go."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I'd be interested in one, but if I placed a pre-order today the earliest I'd get one is 2023. By then maybe there'll be more competing products. And I don't really NEED it, I only want it, so I'll pass for now and see how things go. :)
I just put the $5 down when that date went live lol, so it's showing sometime around Q2 2022. It's good for me because I every so often go to LAN parties, and it would be great to bring this along instead of hulking around my PC lol. Plus, just became a dad in May and my desk is right next to the babies room, so I don't ever turn my PC on nowadays lol but at least I would now be able to play my Steam library either in handheld or docked on my TV.
This was inevitable , my first thought when Valve unveiled the Deck was why? in the middle of supply issues and basically using similar tech to the consoles who were and are struggling.
Yeah I know and I understand why and it makes sense just not the timing ,my point about the tech being similar is more to do with the fact that same tech was already heavily supply constrained and we had all the main players saying at the time that it wasn't getting better anytime soon, yet they still went ahead with the launch and preorders.
Your comment is usually right pay enough and you get what you need, but in the case of TSMC 7nm line it was already at capacity the only reason Sony gained extra capacity was through Apple moving to 5 nm and AMD who besides designing the chipsets also handle both Sony and Microsoft's chip contracts with TSMC gave it all over to PS5 production all I can think of is they were over optimistic when it came to extra capacity coming online and the associated supply line and logistic problems, or maybe their initial volume forecast was low and they ended up over subscribing on pre-orders, probably a combination of all those things. and like you said its not huge disaster just a small hick up but it was so predictable.
Should've seen that coming.
Guess I'm waiting another quarter then. Probably buy something else by then.
Thank Goodness I'm not getting it i'm upgrading my pc tower
