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Again and again Valve has managed to speed up production of the Steam Deck, so much so that for reservations the Q3 era is over. Valve said that everyone who was inside Q3, would have gotten their purchase invite email today and so they're now speeding onwards into the Q4 window.

The full announcement:

Hello, just a quick note about shipping today.

As some folks on the internet have noticed (we see you Reddit!), we're speeding through reservations at an accelerated pace. This is due to increased production, and we've beaten our own estimates yet again. With today’s batch of emails we’ve now sent invitations for all reservations in the Q3 (July-September) bucket.

Now that Q3 is done early, we're going to get a head start on the next set of reservations, and are fulfilling reservations that were scheduled for the Q4 window. We've updated the store page to reflect this, with an updated bucket description: September-December.

That's it for today, more to come soon!

As a reminder, if you do manage to miss your email and Steam app notification somehow, you can still speak to Steam Support as you have a few days grace period on it.

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Eike Sep 20, 2022
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I need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)
Solarwing Sep 20, 2022
What a wonderful piece of news. My life expectancy just got a few seconds longer! Also I could finally escape from the hangman's noose which was around my neck so the reaper can wait for another day to collect my soul. Thanks for the news, master! Btw I bought steam deck but the postman keeps me waiting. Maybe tomorrow it will come....
einherjar Sep 20, 2022
Another possible explanation would be, that the demand is less then they thought.
Comandante Ñoñardo Sep 20, 2022
They don't have the resources for to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck....

This centralized method will fail.
Eike Sep 20, 2022
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThey don't have the resources for to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck....

This centralized method will fail.

I'm quite confident it is a success already.

And while, quite obviously, they don't have the resources to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck immediately,
just as obviously, they do have the resources to fill the entire world demand of Steam Deck sooner or later.
Purple Library Guy Sep 20, 2022
Quoting: einherjarAnother possible explanation would be, that the demand is less then they thought.
It's possible that the demand is less than they thought, but that would not be an explanation for this.

The situation is that we had X numbers of preorders which were expected to take N long to fill. Now those same preorders are going to take N-something long to fill. This is not about previously unknown demand levels. The only two explanations are, first, what they claimed directly and we have no reason to disbelieve: That they increased production faster than they had expected (read: Faster than they had been willing to claim for fear of falling short if they boosted expectations too high). Or, second, that for some reason a whole lot of people with preorders dropped them. But that seems fairly unlikely because the thing has been getting pretty good press, buzz, and reactions from owners as far as I can tell--so why would someone who had bought the hype to the extent of preordering give up on it? It's sure to have happened, but not at unexpected levels.

(On the separate issue, it seems unlikely that the demand is less than they thought, because it seems to have been selling briskly, and they recently claimed the number of orders has been rising. What is possible is that their Asian launch won't be that successful, but that's yet to be seen)
wit_as_a_riddle Sep 21, 2022
Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.
Purple Library Guy Sep 21, 2022
Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle
Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.
GoL had an article on it a little while ago.
Eike Sep 21, 2022
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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle
Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack", I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.

Then let me drop some tips...

* Voodoo_ Detective
* Intruder In Antiquonia
* Nine Noir Lives
* Lucy Dreaming
* PRIM
* A Trail of Ooze
* Rosewater

... and, obviously...

* Return to Monkey Island! (soon to be ported)

I cannot vouch for all of them, but I'll buy them sooner or later. Some have/had good demos.
It's a good time for point and click!


Last edited by Eike on 21 September 2022 at 8:56 am UTC
wit_as_a_riddle Sep 21, 2022
Quoting: cookiEoverdoseI'd like to see an easy way to set up Deck UI grid, background, logo and icon images for added non-steam games or flatpak apps. https://www.steamgriddb.com could be a source. Did someone try SGDBoop?

SDGBoop is pretty great if you don't have a large library, because you do still have to go through manually 1 game at a time. I used a batch tool to fix all the artwork I didn't have - many games didn't update to the new grid style and it is a little irksome.

I ended up using this tool here and it was actually quite easy.

Some tips:

  • After extracting the tool, delete the "overlays by category" folder unless you want them.

  • Grab an api key from www.steamgriddb.com - you have to be logged in to do this, which you can do with your steam account. After you login, click on your account name (top right), preferences, then API.

  • Go into the directory you extracted the tool into and use a command something like this:  sudo ./steamgrid -steamdir /home/deck/.steam/steam -nonsteamonly --steamgriddb 123h2u3i12u31i --onlymissingartwork But, replace that string after --steamgriddb with your own API key. Those flags declare where the steam library is, where to get the artwork from (steamgriddb), dictate to collect art for only non-steam games, and only for those games with missing art.

  • Restart Steam to see the changes. Rerun this command in the future if you acquire more games which need art. Super easy!
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