It seems that Valve has finally reached a fast enough pace in the production of its portable platform to be able to meet the demand at a constant rate. As can be seen on their website It is now possible to buy a Steam Deck without the need for reservations or waiting. Gone are the agonizing waits of up to 6 months that many of the initial buyers had to endure during the first few months.
However, it is important to clarify that this is only true in the case of the €549 and €679 models, where in their website we can see that the reserve option has been replaced with a “Buy Now!”, with an estimated delivery date of between one and two weeks. However, in the case of the €419 model (which was following a slower pace of booking than the top two) it looks like there will still be a pre-order process to go through, though probably only temporarily.
It is now possible to buy a Steam Deck without the need for reservations or waiting
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The arrival of this moment could already be seen coming in recent weeks, when many of the users who reserved these two Steam Deck models found themselves receiving the option to pay for them even the day after making the reservation. In the case of the 64GB model, it has received a large shipment of drives today to those who pre-ordered it in September and October, so it looks like it still has a little way to go to get to the point of its two older brothers.
The Steam Deck has had a great presence at the Tokyo Game Show, where even Hideo Kojima has had the opportunity to test the portable platform with Death Stranding, his latest success that is currently available within the PC Game Pass catalog.