Many players are waiting for Steam Deck and counting days one by one, and now Valve provided a release date update for the hardware. Normally it was expected to start shipping back in late 2021 as pre-orders were already in place, but certain handicaps caused some latencies at the time. Now we do know about the date for when the shipping process will begin.

For the lucky ones who were able to place a pre-order back in the first rows of initial pre-order phase, they will be seeing their shipments sent around late February. Valve confirmed this in case there will not be any unpredictable event hits the progress.

It is good to note that not all the orders will be sent out exactly at the same time and many people may expect a further date for their own orders to arrive. Until that time though, Valve also mentioned that there will be a list coming up, containing the games that belong to the Steam Deck Verified program. The games on this list will be optimized for Steam Deck – in other words, what you see on PC will almost be there. You can prepare a list for yourself among the ones you see there and start waiting for the shipment.