Valve explains sudden Steam Deck delay Valve\/SteamMonths after preorders for the Steam Deck went live, Valve has announced that they are delaying the device\u2019s release until February 2022 due to \u201csupply chain issues.\u201d In July 2021, Valve announced the Steam Deck, a handheld PC that was instantly considered direct competition to the Nintendo Switch, thanks to its similar form factor and controller setup. The company revealed that the device would be available in December 2021, and preorders for the Steam Deck went live shortly after the announcement. However, Valve has officially issued a shipping update for the handheld, in which they explain that supply chain issues have delayed the Deck until February 2022. Steam Deck delay On November 10, Valve sent an email to every person who managed to pre-order the Steam Deck with a shipping update for the mini-pc. The email started off fairly simple: \u201cThe launch of the Steam Deck will be delayed by two months.\u201d Valve didn\u2019t waste time before they apologized, though, as they explained that they did their best to work around global supply chain issues. They went on to detail how components are not reaching their manufacturing facilities fast enough to meet their December launch date. However, they were able to supply a rough estimate for when the handheld will be able to launch based on updated build estimates \u2014 February 2022. According to Twitter user \u2018Gorczy,\u2019 there may be a little bit more time added to some pre-orders, as his reservation for the 512gb version of the Steam Deck says Q2 2022, which would mean his device will be available later than stated in Valve\u2019s email. Just checked, my preorder from the day they announced it is now from Q1 to after Q2. Oof. pic.twitter.com\/TVK6xGnxFK \u2014 Jack Gorczyca (@Gorczy) November 10, 2021 Whether or not supply chain issues will continue to delay Valve\u2019s attempt at beating the switch is unknown. We\u2019ll have to wait till February to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valve explains sudden Steam Deck delay Valve\/SteamMonths after preorders for the Steam Deck went live, Valve has announced that they are delaying the device\u2019s release until February 2022 due to \u201csupply chain issues.\u201d In July 2021, Valve announced the Steam Deck, a handheld PC that was instantly considered direct competition to the Nintendo Switch, thanks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}