Better check those reservations
The physical devices being ready ship is also only part of the fulfilment process. Anyone reaching their turn in the queue will at first only receive an email from Valve confirming that their Steam Deck is ready, at which point they’ll have several days to actually pay the full price and arrange delivery. It’s the rate at which Valve sends these emails that’s going to increase, as much as (if not more than) the shipping.
Silver lining? Steam Deck updates have come so thick and fast that it’s already ameasurably better devicethan when I firstreviewed it, so who knows what else it’ll be able to do by the tail end of the year. In the meantime, I’ve enslaved my own Steam Deck into battery testing duty, so if you’d like to know how quickly your favourite game will sap the handheld’s charge, why not head over to ourSteam Deck battery life guideand request it be tested in the comments?
