The high demand from the portable steam bridge console combined with current supply problems has left many consumers awaiting their chance to buy the device. Valve clarified things in March, but availability problems were not really addressed beyond that, letting consumers settle with the promise that the production of the console would be increased and that the invitations would end up Unroll. Quick advance until June, and Valve has now promised that it would double the rate to which the steam bridge is shipped to players who still await it (via Twitter).
The production has resumed, and after today, we are sending more than double the number of steam decks each week, “said the official steam bridge account in a tweet published on June 27. Lawrence Yang, Valve designer, said in the replies that the weekly shipping exit goes from X to 2x, but has not provided a number. As you may remember, a healthy number of potential buyers still awaits the invitations that will allow them to buy the console after having recorded their weeks of interest months ago or months.
From now on, shipping estimates for users who reserved a unit run until the third quarter of 2022. Valve indicates that the first batch of emails with the purchase link for units of Steam bridge for the Q3 shipping period will begin to take place on June 30. Needless to say, keep an eye on your reception box if you are considering the portable console, which has drawn a mixed response on its convincing premises and its material problems.
The good, bad and ugly for Steam Deck advance
If you somehow miss the email the day it finally landed in your reception box, Valve will give you a period of grace of a few days to finish the purchase before the window closed and a new reservation pushes you further in the waiting list. That apart, there are still bad news in the pipeline. As Valve advances with full steam production, the official steam bridge station was delayed earlier this month, the company citing a shortage of parts and logistics problems linked to the trash as reason .
In a Nordaise way, it seems that rivals of valve which have been in the portable PC game for some time now plan to eat in the popularity of the steam bridge as it continues to fight against the shortage of supply. In March of this year, GPD launched the Win Max 2, a portable game PC which is armed with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU and a GPU Radeon 680m based on RDNA 2 architecture.
In May, Aya raised the covers of Neo 2, presented as the first portable game PC in the world based on the 6800U chip of AMD. According to figures, the 680m raft can push around 3.4 tflops of graphic performance, which would place it far on the beach of 1.6 tflops from the steam bridge. However, Youtuber’s claims “Moore’s Law is Dead” that Valve plans to use the next AMD Phoenix chip based on CPU Zen 4 and RDNA3 architecture for the second generation 2 game.