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Valve is 'Ramping Up' Shipments of the Steam Deck

Valve is 'Ramping Up' Shipments of the Steam Deck - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 April 2022 / 1,474 Views

Valve officially launched its all-in-one portable PC gaming device, the Steam Deck, at the end of February with a limited amount of stock available for those who have pre-ordered it. 

The company via Twitter has announced now that we are in Q2 2022 they are ramping up shipments on the handheld and will be sending out emails to those who have pre-ordered one every week. 

Welcome to Q2!" read the tweet from Valve. "We've just sent out the first set of order emails to Q2 reservers (in order of reservation time). Starting today we're ramping up Steam Deck shipments, and will be sending more order availability emails every week. Sometimes even twice a week!

"We've also updated the Steam Deck product page to clarify what Q2, Q3, and After Q3 mean in terms of months. No reservation windows have been changed or delayed, only some additional info. Log in and visit this page to see your quarterly estimate."

The Steam Deck is an all-in-one portable PC gaming device with a price starting at $399 and going up to $649.

The $399 starting price is for the model with 64GB eMMC internal storage. The $529 model comes with 256GB NVMe SSD internal storage, while the $649 model comes with 512GB NVMe SSD internal storage.

The Steam Deck runs on an AMD APU. The CPU is a Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32), while the GPU has 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32). The APU uses 4-15W. The handheld also comes with 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM (5500 MT/s).

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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Pemalite (on 05 April 2022)

Might finally release world wide... Would buy one day 1 if it dropped in Australia.

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Random_Matt (on 06 April 2022)

Fortunately sold mine to a pawn shop for crazy money. Most uncomfortable and heaviest thing around.

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Paperboy_J (on 07 April 2022)

Eh, I dunno, I just don't trust anything that's not available at major retailers.

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KLAMarine (on 05 April 2022)

Good to light a fire under Nintendo's ass.

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Kneetos KLAMarine (on 05 April 2022)

Is the stream deck really going to affect nintendo all that much or is that just the hope?

  • +9
KLAMarine Kneetos (on 05 April 2022)

Just the fact that they're regularly compared in coverage of the product means there is some overlap between who these two products are aiming for.

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