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Were you able to snag a Steam Deck pre-order for yourself this afternoon? Let me know either down in the comments or hit me up on Twitter at if you would like to get a better idea of what this purchasing process was actually like for the Steam Deck today, keep reading on to see how it worked out for a number of fans. So if you're someone who has already given up, you might want to keep trying. Even hours after pre-orders first went live, Valve still seems to be confirming new purchases.

As a whole, the pre-order process for the Steam Deck was a hot mess and even those who were able to get one had problems at some point along the way.įortunately, the only silver lining to this situation seems to be that many who kept at it were able to eventually get the Steam Deck ordered for themselves. Conversely, some others were met with error pages that simply told them that "something went wrong". First day pre-orders reservations through the Steam storefront briefly crashed the servers due to the demand.

Pre-orders were limited to those with Steam accounts opened before June 2021 to prevent resellers from controlling access to the device. While the process of adding a unit to the cart wasn't difficult, Valve's interface was regularly blocking people from finishing their orders due to a supposed high number of attempts. Pre-orders for the Steam Deck were opened on the day after its announcement, on July 16, 2021. Likely the most notable problems that many ran into when trying to buy the Steam Deck came with actually finalizing the purchase.