Valve Steam Deck booking numbers for 256 GB and 512 GB models leaked

Booking Steam deck, Valve’s handheld gaming PC, launched an hour ago. The number reserved for the 512 GB model has been leaked. North American users seem to have the highest number of bookings at 55,000. In addition to North America, EU users have 9,600 bookings, and UK users have 7,000 bookings.

The reserved quantities for the 256 GB model are 28,000 from North America and 5,000 from the European Union.

valve This reservation system was introduced to prevent robots and dealers from contacting Steam decks. Scalping has been a big problem lately, especially for Nvidia 30 series graphics cards. In addition, the output of hardware has been very low, leading to unprecedented scarcity in the market.

A booking fee of $5 will make users wait in line for the Steam Deck. Once the product is released in December of this year, Valve will begin shipping to users on a first-come, first-served queue.

First hour booking data for Steam Deck 256 and 512 GB models: What does this mean?

The statistics for the first hour, even for one of the three models, are far from enough to describe the entire picture. Whether Valve succeeded in occupying the handheld gaming space, or whether there is actually a considerable demand, remains to be discussed.

However, Valve’s aggressive pricing on all three Steam Deck models is undoubtedly good news for end consumers. The $399 Steam Deck is perfect for those who want to get involved in PC gaming. The $529 and $699 models are undoubtedly very valuable to users because they have more storage space and are faster.

President of Valve, Gabriel, Talked about how they hope to pave the way for more products from other manufacturers through Steam Deck. Other hardware manufacturers will definitely notice from Steam Deck’s sales figures.

Steam Deck reservations are only open to users from the United States, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom. Although the Steam deck released in December 2021 will cover these users first, Valve mentioned that Steam decks will be available in more regions in 2022.