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I (pre)ordered one less than six hours after launch. In a few weeks it will have been a year. I think QEMU may be the only way I experience it.

cpressland 4y ago
Don’t give up hope, I got my order email on Monday, I preordered within a few hours of launch much like yourself.
- Arrath 4y ago
  Same here. A co-worker and I both pre-ordered in the same timeframe, he got his email two weeks ago and got the deck this weekend. I'm still anxiously awaiting my email.
seba_dos1 4y ago
I wonder what makes people so unfamiliar with simple concept of queues these days? Waiting a year or more for a newly announced hardware isn't something incredibly uncommon considering current part shortages, yet there are always people who seem to act as if they're never going to reach their place in the queue. Just wait a bit and you'll get it, there's really nothing that would point to it becoming vaporware. To the contrary, Deck order fulfillment actually seems to be going remarkably smooth.
- sixothree 4y ago
  A year is a long time to wait for a pre-order. This isn't kickstarter. More specifically, 7+ months is a long time to wait after a product starts shipping. Additionally, I ordered the 512 model. They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I'm 6 hours in.
  - parineum 4y ago
    >They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I'm 6 hours in. I imagine that the orders per hour density drops significantly over time. I wouldn't be surprised if hours 1 and 2 had the same amount of orders as the rest of day 1
    - seba_dos1 4y ago
      Not only order density drops down, but also production yield ramps up with time. They're likely a few months away from clearing the queue and keeping stock.
  - seba_dos1 4y ago
    > A year is a long time to wait for a pre-order. You haven't pre-ordered it at all, you just reserved your spot in the queue for refundable $5. And no, we're in 2022; supply chains barely start to recover from post-COVID shortages. It's not unexpected to wait for a year or two for consumer hardware like that - there's often a long time between "product starts shipping" and "production ramps up to significant volume" now, which didn't use to be as noticeable pre-pandemic, as normally you want to ramp up as soon as possible to benefit from economies of scale.
  - fuzzy2 4y ago
    > They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I ordered at 10:54 PM CEST (== 1:54 PM PST), almost 4 hours in. I received my 512 GB Deck over a month ago, right in the indicated time frame. But that's in Europe (shipped via Amsterdam, as usual), it may be different elsewhere.
  - bitwize 4y ago
    People still have a hard time getting ninth-gen consoles from Sony or Microsoft. Something as boutique-schmoutique as the Steam Deck is gonna get hit hard by supply chain issues.

cpressland 4y ago

Don’t give up hope, I got my order email on Monday, I preordered within a few hours of launch much like yourself.

Arrath 4y ago
Same here. A co-worker and I both pre-ordered in the same timeframe, he got his email two weeks ago and got the deck this weekend. I'm still anxiously awaiting my email.

seba_dos1 4y ago

I wonder what makes people so unfamiliar with simple concept of queues these days? Waiting a year or more for a newly announced hardware isn't something incredibly uncommon considering current part shortages, yet there are always people who seem to act as if they're never going to reach their place in the queue. Just wait a bit and you'll get it, there's really nothing that would point to it becoming vaporware. To the contrary, Deck order fulfillment actually seems to be going remarkably smooth.

sixothree 4y ago
A year is a long time to wait for a pre-order. This isn't kickstarter. More specifically, 7+ months is a long time to wait after a product starts shipping. Additionally, I ordered the 512 model. They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I'm 6 hours in.
- parineum 4y ago
  >They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I'm 6 hours in. I imagine that the orders per hour density drops significantly over time. I wouldn't be surprised if hours 1 and 2 had the same amount of orders as the rest of day 1
  - seba_dos1 4y ago
    Not only order density drops down, but also production yield ramps up with time. They're likely a few months away from clearing the queue and keeping stock.
- seba_dos1 4y ago
  > A year is a long time to wait for a pre-order. You haven't pre-ordered it at all, you just reserved your spot in the queue for refundable $5. And no, we're in 2022; supply chains barely start to recover from post-COVID shortages. It's not unexpected to wait for a year or two for consumer hardware like that - there's often a long time between "product starts shipping" and "production ramps up to significant volume" now, which didn't use to be as noticeable pre-pandemic, as normally you want to ramp up as soon as possible to benefit from economies of scale.
- fuzzy2 4y ago
  > They have only processed two hours worth of orders for the 512 gb model. I ordered at 10:54 PM CEST (== 1:54 PM PST), almost 4 hours in. I received my 512 GB Deck over a month ago, right in the indicated time frame. But that's in Europe (shipped via Amsterdam, as usual), it may be different elsewhere.
- bitwize 4y ago
  People still have a hard time getting ninth-gen consoles from Sony or Microsoft. Something as boutique-schmoutique as the Steam Deck is gonna get hit hard by supply chain issues.