Valve’s upcoming gaming {hardware}, Steam Deck, is the most recent tech product to be delayed due to the continuing provide chain shortages. As a substitute of being launched this yr, shipments at the moment are anticipated to start in early 2022.
The corporate introduced the Steam Deck delay in a weblog put up on Thursday, confirming that the launch has been pushed by two months. It may be recalled that the primary shipments of the transportable PC gaming system had been anticipated to be delivered someday in December. However the latest announcement means it’s now not anticipated to start out till February 2022.
“We’re sorry about this—we did our greatest to work across the international provide chain points, however on account of materials shortages, elements aren’t reaching our manufacturing amenities in time for us to satisfy our preliminary launch dates,” Valve wrote. Prospects who had been capable of safe their place within the Steam Deck reservation queue are assured that they get to maintain it regardless of the delay.
Those that received reservations for the supposed December shipments can now count on their Steam Deck to reach in February. “All reservation holders hold their place in line however dates will shift again accordingly,” the corporate added.
Gaming followers who’re simply trying out Steam Deck now must wait longer. The official web page for Steam Deck at the moment signifies that new reservations for purchasers in the USA are anticipated to be obtainable “after Q2 2022.” That applies to all three variants of Steam Deck. In the meantime, it’s unclear how the latest delay will have an effect on Steam Deck’s launch worldwide. Valve is at the moment solely accepting reservations from prospects in choose areas.
Steam Deck will likely be powered by an AMD Zen 2 APU with a CPU clocked at 2.4-3.5GHz. It additionally has a typical 16GB LPDDR5 RAM. It would characteristic a 7-inch IPS LCD with a 16:10 facet ratio and 1280 x 800 decision. However it can be related to exterior screens by means of its official dock, which will likely be bought individually.
As talked about, the Steam Deck will likely be obtainable in three variants, beginning with a $399 mannequin with 64GB eMMC storage. Players can even go for models with NVMe SSD with 256GB and 512GB configurations for $529 and $649, respectively.
