Great news from Valve today! They have reportedly cleared up production queues and will be able to fulfill all current Steam Deck preorders this year! In a statement on Steam, they mentioned that they can now fulfill demand sooner, while some new orders may be part of the Q4 crowd:
Hello! We're excited to announce that we're going to be able to fulfill demand sooner than we had estimated for everyone in the reservation queue. Many of the supply chain shortfalls that affect Steam Deck are gradually clearing up, and we're continuing to ramp production, so we're able to produce more Decks faster than ever before.
As of today we've updated the reservation windows, and everyone who's currently in the reservation queue will get their Steam Deck email this year. Many customers who were in the "Q4 or later" window have been bumped up to "Q3 (July-September)" window. And everyone else is now solidly in the "Q4 (October-December)" window.
As of this moment, new reservations will be in the Q4 bucket, but if these queues fill up it will flip over into the following quarter. To see your reservation window, visit this site while logged in.
We're happy we'll be able to get Steam Decks into your hands faster than we had estimated. It has been great to see all the positive feedback, impressions, and amazing things you all have already been doing with your Steam Decks. We can't wait to
Statement from Valve
It’s wonderful to see that Valve has been pushing more Decks to be shipped out so everyone can start playing! I hope that this won’t impact their quality control though, or that they tighten it up so we see less defective Decks that are RMA’d!
You can view the original post from Valve on Steam!
I'm still in Q4, but can't wait.
The wait will be brutal, I know it is, but it will be worth it in the end! Which model did you end up going for?