Anyone worried that the Steam Deck might not make its release window of early next year can (hopefully) rest easy.
Speaking with PC Gamer, Valve designer Greg Coomer said that another delay is unlikely on Thursday, and the highly-anticipated portable gaming PC is likely still coming out in Feb. 2022.
“We do feel like we’re on track for that,” Coomer said via PC Gamer. “We’re still bummed that we had to move from end of this year to beginning of next. But yeah, all the signs are pointing to us being able to ship in February.”
The Steak Deck is only one of several pieces of gaming hardware hit by the global semiconductor shortages. Nintendo had to slow the production of Switch consoles for the same reason, as did Sony with the PS5.
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“It’s a real product launch, so many thousands of people right away are going to receive Decks as soon as we’re able to ship them,” Coomer said via PC Gamer. “But even talking about thousands would be quite low compared to the volumes we’re shooting for in the first few months.”
Valve also recently stated that the Steam Deck wouldn’t be getting any exclusive games, despite it being the company’s platform. Probably a good call not to alienate millions upon millions of Steam users.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
