Valve’s Steam Deck OLED store seems to be recovering
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6GE6K)
Photo by The Verge If you've had trouble ordering Valve's new Steam Deck OLED, you're not alone. Orders opened at 1PM ET on Thursday, and many people ran into issues actually completing a purchase. Some Verge staffers who tried to purchase a Steam Deck OLED got stuck with the device in their cart but were unable to check out.
As of this writing - more than two hours after orders went live - things seem to be settling down. One Verge employee who had been trying to get one of the new models was finally able to check out. And I've seen many people report successful purchases on the Steam Deck subreddit.
Within minutes of orders opening up, Valve acknowledged that there are problems with checkout and said it was trying to address them. About two hours later,...