I think the last lot said they paid Monday and got delivered Friday or Saturday
Valve announces the SteamDeck
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Email came through this afternoon, purchased my 256GB optionFor anyone who has purchased, how quickly did they ship it out?
I paid for mine Tuesday afternoon (last week) and it came on Monday this week. Fingers crossed you might have it by Friday but more likely next Monday
Good to know razer, thanks! Got a long flight to Vegas a week on Monday so looking forward to using it during that flight and was hoping I'd receive it by then.
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Bit the bullet and pre ordered the 256 model, when I get an email saying I need to pay for it, how long will it take to ship does that mean it’s in stock once I’ve paid?
My Steam Deck has arrived...it's big 
Completing the initial setup currently, will download a few games and provide some pics and impressions.
First impressions however are good, despite the size it's very comfortable. More so than my Switch. The screen seems very good (256GB model) and the fact it comes with a very impressive carry case is ideal.
Completing the initial setup currently, will download a few games and provide some pics and impressions. First impressions however are good, despite the size it's very comfortable. More so than my Switch. The screen seems very good (256GB model) and the fact it comes with a very impressive carry case is ideal.
My Steam Deck has arrived...it's big
First impressions however are good, despite the size it's very comfortable. More so than my Switch. The screen seems very good (256GB model) and the fact it comes with a very impressive carry case is ideal.
good to see they keep being sent out let us know what games you install how they are any first impressions etc
just another 4-6 months for me lol
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Your expected order availability:
Q3 (July-September) 2022
Oh well, I can wait. Might have to look out for a PS5 in the meantime instead.
Q3 (July-September) 2022
Oh well, I can wait. Might have to look out for a PS5 in the meantime instead.
Well right now I'm going for the 'Great on Deck' option in Elden Ring and 'Unconfirmed' Resident Evil 2 as two sides of the support coin.
I will say the Wifi download speeds are terrific. Download speed limit however appears bugged and when dialled in throttles you way down much further than requested. Wanted to limit to 5MB and ended up at 650kb approximately.
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Elden Ring installed, defaulted to High settings - between 35-50 fps in less open world areas and then between 25-30 fps in the open world. Thoroughly impressed with the brief 20 minutes I've played on it so far and the speakers are really good as well. Will mess around with FSR after realising I need to lower the resolution first before it becomes active. Should be able to get an easy solid 30fps in the game with a good fidelity level.
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It's impressive that it runs but it blows my mind that anyone would want to take such a visually stunning game and play it on a tiny little postcard sized screen... I guess maybe on a 2nd playthrough or something but feels like you are losing out so much
So it would actually be a 2nd playthrough for myself, first one was actually completed on PS5. Great thing about the Steam Deck is the cloud save function where you can simply pick up on the main PC after you've made progress during travel/commuting.
Resident Evil 2 installed...not on the supported list and runs perfectly! Few tweaks on the settings and you're set for 60fps locked. However if battery life is what you're after then slap the 30fps cap on and the estimation looks great.
Elden Ring - High for most settings, 15w max power selected, 30FPS lock on Battery approx. 2-2.5hrs
Resident Evil 2 - High for most settings, 15w max power selected, 30FPS lock on Battery approx. 3.5-4hrs
This demonstrates how much time you're going to get out of the battery depending on the game stressing the GPU. If you raise the FPS cap to 60 for RE2 you'd be looking at a similar time on battery as Elden Ring.
I'm really impressed so far with the Steam Deck, played around an hour on Elden Ring, took on a dungeon boss, started to progress up the beginning path and it was great to play on. I'll need to dial in some additional settings as it became bogged down (25fps) in very frantic fights with multiple enemies/spirits called in but great first impression. FSR doesn't really work properly yet for it however as you need to lower the res, when you do so it doesn't scale to the screen so that's annoying. Didn't try FSR on RE2 as it didn't need it.
Elden Ring - High for most settings, 15w max power selected, 30FPS lock on Battery approx. 2-2.5hrs
Resident Evil 2 - High for most settings, 15w max power selected, 30FPS lock on Battery approx. 3.5-4hrs
This demonstrates how much time you're going to get out of the battery depending on the game stressing the GPU. If you raise the FPS cap to 60 for RE2 you'd be looking at a similar time on battery as Elden Ring.
I'm really impressed so far with the Steam Deck, played around an hour on Elden Ring, took on a dungeon boss, started to progress up the beginning path and it was great to play on. I'll need to dial in some additional settings as it became bogged down (25fps) in very frantic fights with multiple enemies/spirits called in but great first impression. FSR doesn't really work properly yet for it however as you need to lower the res, when you do so it doesn't scale to the screen so that's annoying. Didn't try FSR on RE2 as it didn't need it.
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Got my pay email, not sure if I want it though.
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Which model? Can you forward it on to anyone specific like me
