The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)
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Reservations could come back if there are too many orders. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge
You no longer need a reservation to buy a Steam Deck, according to Valve, the company behind the gaming handheld that launched earlier this year. Each model should be available to buy now, and at the time of writing, Valve's estimating one- to two-week delivery on all of them (though there has been some wonkiness with the page like there was for the just-released dock for the console).
The company says that it's worked through its queue of reservations and that the Deck is now in stock. It does warn that if there are enough orders, the estimated delivery times will get longer and that at a certain point we'll flip back into reservation mode until we're able to catch up." Valve also notes that it's expanding the global availability of...