Valve postpones its game console shipments to February 2022

Valve has announced that it is delaying the shipping date of its Steam Deck, a portable gaming console, from November 2021 to February 2022.

Game Deck is a portable game console equipped with all functions of Steam, the world’s largest game delivery platform. It is a portable type game console like the Nintendo Switch, but it is also called a portable gaming PC because it can play Steam library games.

This Steam deck was originally scheduled to ship in December of this year, but on November 11, Valve updated the Steam deck shipment and announced that the Steam deck launch would be delayed by two months. According to the company, the reason for the delay was because the parts did not arrive at the manufacturing plant due to a shortage of raw materials.

According to current manufacturing forecasts, the Steam Deck is expected to begin shipping in February 2022, while customer reservations will remain the same, but the date will be postponed according to the new schedule. The scheduled reservation date will be updated later by notice, and the Steam Deck will be shipped according to the original shipping order.

Valve is not alone in manufacturing its own game consoles while experiencing a global semiconductor shortage. Nintendo predicted a 12% decline in Nintendo Switch sales due to potential problems with critical components in its fiscal year-end 2022, while Sony said in its quarterly closing at the end of April 2021 that the PlayStation 5 supply shortage is likely to continue into 2022. have. Related information can be found here.