Steam Deck shipments are going out early for some Q4 reservations

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Valve continue to pump outSteam Decksat a pace that seems surprising even to them. A few weeks after they announced that anyone with an outstanding Steam Deck order wouldreceive their handheld PC sooner than expected, Valve designer Lawrence Yang hastweetedthe news that some reservation holders in the Q4 window – as in, with orders scheduled to be fulfilled in Q4 2022 – are being bumped up into the Q3 batch. Like being upgraded to business class at the airport, if Lufthansa suddenly discovered they had a few more planes than they thought.

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Hi all, a few of you may have received an order email for your “Q4 window” Steam Deck reservation today. This wasn’t a mistake! Production has outperformed our estimates, and we’ll be moving more Q4 folks into the Q3 window.Official announcement and info coming soon. 🎉— Lawrence Yang (@lawrenceyang)August 22, 2022

Curiously, it doesn’t sound as if Valve are completely done with existing Q3 orders, just carving through them ahead of schedule. This might mean some in the Q3 gang will get their Steam Decksaftercertain Q4 orders are fulfilled, which doesn’t seem like the best application of a queuing system, but then there may be other, possibly geographical factors involved in who gets theirs when.