Valve announces postponement of shipping date for its own game console 'Steam Deck'
Valve has announced that it will postpone the shipping date from December 2021 to February 2022 for its
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Valve delays Steam Deck launch two months to February 2022 | Ars Technica
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Steam Deck is a portable game machine equipped with all the functions of the world's largest game distribution platform 'Steam'. The price is about 40,000 yen, and it is said that you can play games in the Steam library even though it is a portable type game machine like Nintendo Switch, and it was described as a 'portable gaming PC' in the report at the time of announcement. rice field.
Handheld game machine 'Steam Deck' announced, price starts from 40,000 yen level and will start shipping in December 2021 --GIGAZINE
This Steam Deck was originally scheduled to ship in December 2021, but Valve wrote in an article entitled 'Update on Steam Deck Shipment' posted on Thursday, November 11, 2021 Japan time. 'Steam Deck's launch will be postponed for two months,' he said. According to the company, the reason for the postponement of the release is that the component did not reach the manufacturing plant due to a shortage of raw materials.
'Based on current production forecasts, Steam Deck will begin shipping in February 2022. This will be the new start date for the booking queue. Your booking queue will remain intact, but with a date. It will be postponed according to the new schedule. The scheduled reservation date will be updated after this announcement. 'The shipping order determined according to the reservation order will not be shuffled by this release postponement, and the release date Even if it changes, Steam Deck will be shipped according to the original shipping order.
With a global shortage of semiconductors, Valve isn't the only one struggling to make in-house game consoles. Nintendo predicts in its full-year 2022 financial results that 'potential problems with parts of critical components will reduce Nintendo Switch sales by 12%,' and Sony also said in its quarterly financial results at the end of April 2021 '(PlayStation 5). The supply shortage may continue into 2022. '
Sony predicts PS5 supply shortage will continue into 2022-GIGAZINE
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