Users lament their wait for the Steam Deck Who knows, maybe the users who have been waiting for the current Steam Deck will eventually be upgraded to a slightly newer, shinier model. It also inspires hope in a successor to the Steam Deck in the coming years. Therefore, you can ascertain that Valve will be producing at least 200,000 Steam Decks each month, and with the numbers quickly piling up, you may still be in for a long wait, since it appears that the console is much more popular than Valve first anticipated. Yang also commended that ‘In the first month we’ll be in the tens of thousands, by the second month we’ll be in the hundreds of thousands’.

But, while Valve has now figured out their production capacity, we now have a better view on the Steam Deck’s sales, and production. ‘We had to delay for supply chain reasons those continue to be issues but we are surmounting them’ Yang commented, but he further goes on to say ‘We imagine that the launch is going to ramp in production terms.

Valve UX designer Lawrence Yang revealed in an interview with IGN that Valve has been struggling to keep up with demand for the Steam Deck, as reservations continue to pour in for the cutting-edge handheld device.

Unfortunately with the current ongoing global chip shortage in addition to the capacity of losses Valve can make when producing a Steam Deck, you’re going to be waiting for a little while. This is bad news for anyone ogling one of the latest Steam Deck reviews and thinking that they will be able to quickly purchase one for a bargain price. Valve comments on Steam Deck’s popularity With many people’s orders being originally marked in Q1, Q2 and ‘After Q2’, Vlave has seemingly now updated these shipping times to be reflective of the time to ship the device, with backorders all the way to ‘After Q3 2022’, which means that many people who have already paid for a deposit on the Deck could be waiting until 2023 to lay their hands on a device. The Steam Deck officially launched last week, but those who actually have the device on hand are few and far between.

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