Production has greatly increased, and V News Agency announced that it is expected to complete all Steam Deck handset booking orders by the end of this year.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen 0x33c for clue delivery! CTOnews.com September 24 news, September 20, V news agency said, is speeding up the processing of Steam Deck handheld reservations. This is mainly because it has accelerated production and once again exceeded official expectations. V said officials were currently processing bookings originally scheduled for the fourth quarter.

Today, Steam Deck's official account updated its production progress on social platforms again. V said production of Steam Deck consoles is faster than ever and that V expects to complete all Steam Deck handheld pre-orders by the end of the year.

Steam Deck is powered by AMD's Van Gogh APU, which uses Zen2 architecture, 4-core specification, 2.4 GHz to 3.5 GHz. On the GPU side, the Van Gogh APU integrates an 8 CU RDNA2 GPU with frequencies from 1.0 GHz to 1.6 GHz and performance of 1.6TFops FP32. The entire SoC has a TDP of 4 to 15W, supports LPDDR5 memory, and has a capacity of 16GB.

In order to increase production capacity, Valve changed the Steam Deck storage specifications in late May, and some Steam Deck handheld devices will be equipped with NVMe PCIe Gen3 x2 SSD. Although the specifications have shrunk, Valve claims that its game performance will not be affected.

CTOnews.com understands that V has previously announced that Steam Deck will be available later this year in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Reservations have been opened in these four regions. The starting price of Steam Deck in Hong Kong is HK $3288.(about 2827.68 yuan), the starting price of Taiwan version is NT $13380 (about 3023.88 yuan), the starting price of Japanese version is 59800 yen (about 3019.9 yuan), and the starting price of Korean version is 589000 won (about 3039.24 yuan).