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

Got mine pre ordered but sadly it's a Q2 2022 pre order. Although I guess that's a good thing since it gives me time to see reviews and how it preforms before getting it myself, giving me time to cancel if I'm not impressed.

Considering how little any of my Switch consoles leaves a dock... (I.E. Never.) I will probably pass on this, I would rather game on my desktop.

And if I am traveling, I would rather take my Ryzen laptop, at-least then I can do some actual work and/or fire up a game if I feel like it...

Although I am very happy with this, it's showing the flexibility of the PC platform as a whole to scale to any form factor.

I wonder how they managed to achieve such a low price. The specs/cost ratio is insane, and I don't know how they managed to get, for instance, RAM at that rate.

Yea they are probably losing money on this but I think their goal is to push people towards Steam OS which why they are putting so much effort into the OS instead of using Windows. If they can get people to use Steam OS instead of Windows, then they would have full control like consoles do. But if not, then they will still make money off of people buying games on Steam and carve out a new segment in PC gaming. But that's just my theory anyway.

Agreed. I would like to know how much, in order to understand how that pricing is even possible. One other thing that I'm crazy curious about is to see how much better they are gonna make the OS, especially in the compatibility field, and how much devs are gonna optimize their games to run on it. In my mind, these are the keys for a healthy future, otherwise it is going to be way too complicated a system for the great public to embrace.

It should go in the same place the 275 million PC's sold last year were tracked.

I will not get one because my PC, my 2DS and my PS2 are enough for me.

But I hope we get some way of tracking Steam Deck sales numbers, because I feel like this thing can sell really good.