My thinking, too. I just preordered something that’s expected to be high demand low supply into the next year. If I like it when it ships, great. If it doesn’t look like it’ll meet my expectations, there will be those willing to pay at least twice as much.
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Steam Deck: The First Hands-On With Valve’s Handheld Gaming PC
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I'm pretty sure I don't actually want a Steam Deck any more, but given the prices on Ebay I'd be foolish to cancel it. Unless there's a massive influx of supply in "Q2" and the prices suddenly plummet, I'll be scalping this for all it's worth.
I am not a scummy scalper. By canceling mine, someone who really wants it will get it at regular price.
I can't control what other people do. just happy I don't have to hustle handhelds for money. 😄
Don't think of it as hustling, think of it as getting a really good deal on a new Macbook.
Also, it's providing a service. People who didn't have the foresight to pre-order are willing to pay for all the time you spent in a queue.
Same. Seems like the 512GB units are taking longer to ship due to demand. I have seen 64 and 256GB units shipping now to folk who ordered after I did.
Running 6900xt eGPU with Steam Deck but too bad it's CPU limited without playing with power limits to reduce iGPU power and give more to CPU.
Actually already sold mine. Heavy, uncomfortable and the fan is unbearable. What a fail valve sent out.
So I caved and bought NMS on Steam for the Deck (along with Hellblade and Ryse). This thing is slick. I was going to continue my save for Shadow of the Tomb Raider but the save between Windows and Linux/Mac isn’t compatible so the game wanted me to start over. I was like naw.
The steam deck is a media darling, every tech influencer is gushing over it, and there does seem to be a waiting list but I do question the actual usage. We are still in the honeymoon phase, few people seem to have it, and the limited supply seems to keep the demand up.
I mean if you want to play PC games on the go it is the least expensive option available.
There are multiple subreddits dedicated to the Steam Deck. As for demand, my reservation was finalized just under 18 minutes after orders started last July, and I just got my “you can order now” email yesterday. The 512GB order line moved 41 seconds yesterday, based on reports of people who received their emails.
If you were to preorder one today, you wouldn’t get it until next year.
I got mine in the very first wave of Q2 orders (512GB and my preorder went through 5 mins after they opened). I use it a fair amount, it's great for more chill games like Portal.
Seems to be about a week. If you got your email yesterday, it’ll ship Monday or Tuesday and should be in your hands on Thursday or Friday.
Yeah, status changed to „shipping soon“. I am located in Europe though, we‘ll see if that makes any difference (a day or two maybe)
Indeed you were right. Shipped from the netherlands, arrived today. Now I am unsure what to do with it. I an not much of a gamer…
Got mine on Tuesday. Loving it so far, loaded a pile of games on it and setup xcloud as per the instructions from microsoft. Bought an Anker usb c dock and a 100w gan charger from Ugreen. Plugged in a wireless mouse and keyboard and hooked it up to a monitor. Been messing around in Linux and will setup emulators etc this weekend. I opted in for the beta os releases, been playing around with the 40Hz mode, improves battery life by a good margin. I would say, just play around with it, get into desktop mode and poke around in Linux.