RMA'd my original Steam Deck, which had mounting/case issue causing the let trigger to annoyingly rub against the casing and got my replacement just recently. Seems like I got the better fan though the casing is definitely poorer quality with some machining marks visible on both sides of the controller and of course, the left rumble on the track pad is slightly iffy with it being considerable weaker than the right. And the slight light bleed at the top left, which my original didn't hae. But, I'm thinking of dealing with it because apart from that its perfectly functional.

But yeah not impressed with the QC of the SD. At least coming in my experience from two different units. Their after sales service was decent though at under 2 weeks turnover.. and thats with it being shipped abroad to the Netherlands and back.

Also be mindful for people ordering the higher tiers in the future. They are swapping SSD's to gen 3x2 from 3x4. So add SSD's to the lottery with them offering downgraded SSD's to meet demand. While they say it won't make much of a difference, not a fan of bait and switch of specs of hardware. Not cool, Valve.

Changes below, from Tomshardware -
"256 GB NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*)
512 GB high-speed NVMe SSD (PCIe Gen 3 x4 or PCIe Gen 3 x2*)

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssd-bandwidth-cut-in-half-on-some-steam-decks

My steam deck has finally arrived! Man, it’s a beast but also somehow already super comfortable. So far I’ve played Rogue Legacy 2 and Portal 2. Still playing around with configurations though so not going too in-depth with anything.

My steam deck has finally arrived! Man, it’s a beast but also somehow already super comfortable. So far I’ve played Rogue Legacy 2 and Portal 2. Still playing around with configurations though so not going too in-depth with anything.

Over 3333 Steam games are now categorized as "verified" or "playable":

49% of the 1166 "90+ games" are now playable+, 34.2% of the 3734 "85+ games" are playable+

Idk if it’s ever been asked, but is there any way that the Steam hardware survey could give any idea as to how many sales of the Steam Deck there are?

A Steam Deck and Steam hardware survey question? My batsignals are tingling.

Currently 7.6% of the Linux systems in the survey:

Linux itself is at 1.23% of all Steam systems:

The total number of active Steam accounts is probably between 200 and 300 million accounts.

So if we calculate with 250m, it would seem that a quarter million Steam Decks are used:

250m * 1.23% * 7.6% = 233.700 Steam Decks.

The BIG problem: Steam Decks only get the survey invitation in developer mode. Most Steam Deck users play in normal game mode.

So it could be even over one million Steam Decks so far, we don't know until Valve announces a milestone.