Does valve send out a tracking email?
Wondering the same. Paid on Monday was expecting a shipping notice by now.
They do, I just got mine about an hour ago.
Same. As of this am still: “Shipping soon”.
Once the shipping info is available it will also show up on your purchase history. The line item where you paid for it (not the original reserve) will have a link to the tracking info.
I paid for mine on a Monday, got shipping notification on Saturday evening, and it arrived (albeit at a neighbor’s house…) on Wednesday. Good luck!
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Got the shipping ema woohoo.
Got my deck today. Easy setup, decent feel. The thumbsticks don’t feel quite as solid as I’d hoped, but what do I know? I only play PC games. Nice screen. It’s wide - I somehow imagined it would be smaller, but it’s more like a mini piano keyboard.
I played a little Vampire Survivors and The Ascent, and both worked great. Quite happy with it overall. My only complaint at this point is I couldn’t get it to bluetooth to either of my wireless headphones (sony m3s, AirPods), but I didn’t try that hard either. Wanted to get to the good part.
Would have come in handy on my flight home from Europe this weekend, when iTunes refused to play the movies I’d rented and downloaded. Curious to see how the battery life holds up.
I blame Bluetooth technology more than the Steam Deck for that. Bluetooth is the worst technology ever. Nothing seems to ever connect to the devices I want it to connect to.
Bluetooth does indeed suck. Can’t stand it, although it’s a necessary evil (read: convenience) at times.
Getting excited, mine comes tomorrow.
@tomchick are you looking to get one of these? I was speaking with another forum member and they suggested that if you did get one you could start a new youtube channel branded as “Chick’s with deck”. Just a thought anyway :D
Not only do I not have a Steam Deck, I don’t think I even know what they are or why people apparently want them. Why would I need a handheld platform for my PC games when I already have a desktop with an awesome monitor, and a laptop if I need to be mobile? Wouldn’t a Steam Deck just be superfluous?
That would bring in the traffic! I think the video with the highest number of views on my channel is a clip from a low-budget Eastern European open-world GTA rip-off I was playing for some reason. I posted some footage with a glitch of two cars stacked on top of each other and made some dumb comment about “when two cars love each other very much”. I titled the clip something like “GTA porn!”, having no idea what havoc that would wreak. I believe it has outperformed everything else I’ve posted by a factor of ten.
Thanks, Obama.
Most of these items are superfluous to an extent but I guess it’s a lot more portable than a laptop and has a built-in high quality gamepad. These are the main advantages I suppose.
It’s not more portable than a laptop if you’re already bringing your laptop with you. Which is why I couldn’t justify ordering one. There.'s basically no scenario where I’d use one where I wouldn’t have a laptop or my Switch or both.
My laptop is a desktop replacement so it’s a bit cumbersome, heavy, and hot. The Switch is quite a bit more portable than it is but my Switch doesn’t have access to my Steam library. That line if thinking is what has me interested. That and my wife “adopted” my Switch for Animal Crossing and I haven’t touched it since. :)
Oh, for sure, I’m not saying it’s not worth it for some people, just not me. I have a very portable gaming laptop.
There are some other benefits you may not be aware of, such as using Remote Play to play using your PC specs but from the comfort of your couch, or being able to remote play your PS5 or XBox. Or setting it up as an emulator, so you can play old-school PS1 or SNES games or the like. Lots you can do with it, really.
I don’t care about any of that stuff either. Basically, if you’re the kind of person who enjoys mobile gaming, the Steam Deck is a compelling purchase. If you want to play games on your commute to work, or if you travel often. And if not, not. It isn’t for everybody.
I do think we’ll see SteamOS 3.x in full sized console-like form factors soon, and that could be very interesting.
Which you can also do with a laptop though.