Valve agency issued a document today that it is speeding up the processing of Steam Deck reservations. This is due to accelerated production and once again exceeding official expectations. Including the batch of emails sent today, Valve has sent out invites for preorders scheduled for the third quarter (July-September).
With pre-orders for the third quarter processed ahead of schedule, Valve was able to quickly begin processing the next batch of pre-orders, which are currently being processed for the fourth quarter. Valve has updated the store page with this new situation and updated a pre-order group description: September-December.
Valve previously announced that Steam Deck will be released in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong later this year. Pre-orders have been opened in these four regions. The starting price of the Steam Deck Hong Kong version is 3288 Hong Kong dollars (about 2,827.68 RMB), the Taiwan version starts at NT$13,380 (about 3,023.88 RMB), the Japanese version starts at 59,800 yen (about 3,019.9 RMB), and the Korean version starts at 589,000 won. (about 3039.24 RMB).
The Steam Deck is powered by AMD’s Van Gogh APU, and its CPU part uses the Zen2 architecture, 4-core specifications, 2.4 GHz to 3.5 GHz. In the GPU part, the Van Gogh APU integrates an 8 CU RDNA2 GPU with a frequency of 1.0 GHz to 1.6 GHz and performance of 1.6TFops FP32. The TDP of the entire SoC is 4 to 15W, and it supports LPDDR5 memory with a capacity of 16GB.
