The Official Steam Deck Thread

[mjk45]

Captain_Yuri said:

mjk45 said:

I have a question why now and not next year, we constantly hear that tsmc is full and extra capacity won't arrive till 2022, I realise Valve don't need a huge amount especially early just enough to get them through preorders and then when thing open up they will have a fair indication of what they need and hopefully can access more ,but still its extra capacity in a tight market, so where are Valve getting that capacity from, any ideas?

Well it won't start shipping until December and most of the pre-orders are slated for 2022 so it may as well be next year

Even with a December shipping date the actual manufacturing is done months in advance, still this got me to thinking about the Next gen consoles and iirc didn't the PS5 cost/price parity announcement coincide with the expected move to 6nm if so would that be the answer to my question