Valve Has Some Good News For Steam Deck Buyers

If you somehow miss the email on the day it finally lands in your inbox, Valve will give you a grace period of a few days to complete the purchase before the window closes and a fresh reservation pushes you further down the waitlist. That aside, there’s still some bad news in the pipeline. As Valve moves ahead with production at full steam, the official Steam Deck Docking Station was delayed earlier this month, with the company citing a shortage of parts and COVID-related logistics issues as the reason.

Interestingly, it appears Valve rivals that have been in the handheld PC game for a while now are planning to eat into the Steam Deck’s popularity as it continues to grapple with the supply shortage. In March this year, GPD launched the Win Max 2, a handheld gaming PC that comes armed with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U APU and a Radeon 680M GPU based on the RDNA 2 architecture.

In May, Aya lifted the covers from Neo 2, touted to be the world’s first handheld gaming PC based on AMD’s 6800U chip. Going by the numbers, the Radeon 680M can reportedly push roughly 3.4 TFLOPs of graphics performance, which would put it far ahead of the Steam Deck’s 1.6 TFLOPs range. However, YouTuber “Moore’s Law Is Dead” claims that Valve plans to use AMD’s upcoming Phoenix chip based on the Zen 4 CPU cores and the RDNA3 architecture for the second-generation Deck 2.