Valve Details First Wave of Steam Deck Shipments Ahead of Friday Launch
If you want to know whether or not you are in the first wave of Steam Deck shipments, you won't have to wait much longer. Valve has announced new details regarding the Steam Deck's February 25 launch.
Beginning at 10am PT / 1pm ET that day, Valve will send out emails to reservation holders that are included in the first wave of shipments. (That's also when IGN will post our reviewer's impressions of the Steam Deck.) The emails will go out to the addresses that are associated with the Steam account used to place the $5 reservation for the portable gaming PC.
As Valve previously stated, reservation holders will have 72 hours to complete the purchase of the Steam Deck model they reserved. Failure to finalize the purchase within that three-day time window will result in the reservation being released to that individual and given to the next person in the queue, as noted in the blog post.
Valve also shared brief details on the official Steam Deck dock. While the accessory will not be available the same time the handheld is released, Valve says that plans to make the dock available "in late Spring."
The announcement comes a few days before the Steam Deck's February 25 release date. With the launch quickly approaching, the company has been sharing new information, such as announcing that iFixit was named one of the authorized sellers for replacement parts and launching a new tool to see which games in your Steam library will run on the device.
Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.
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