Steam Deck pre-orders flood in and 512GB model now isn’t shipping for a year - Techradar

Steam Deck pre-orders flooded in when they went live yesterday, and on Valve’s page for the handheld PC, devices are shown as not shipping until Q2 at the earliest in the US – and Q3 for the top-end version – so perhaps unsurprisingly, pre-ordered machines are already on sale via eBay for extortionate markups.

One thing’s for sure, though, namely that a lot of pre-orders were made, hence the availability date for the Steam Deck being pushed back.

The official announcement declared that the Steam Deck will be available in December and start shipping from then onwards, with the first pre-orders being served first.

However, in the US you are now looking at a ship date of Q2 in 2022, meaning April onwards, and the situation is even worse for the Steam Deck with 512GB of storage which won’t be made available until Q3.

The situation in the UK is the same, but slightly better when it comes to the base Steam Deck which still has an availability date of Q1.

Plus it’s eMMC storage as well, meaning it’s a good deal slower than the NVMe SSDs featured on the other Steam Deck models.

As PC Gamer reports, a 512GB model already sold for $1,599 on eBay, and the top-end Steam Deck with that amount of storage is currently available for around $1,250 on ‘Buy it now’, almost double Valve’s asking price of $649.