Steam Deck: We're happy to announce that Steam Decks will start shipping in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on December 17th via Komodo, our official Steam Deck distributor in these regions.

Sad latin america noise

cries in empanadas

Sad tango noise

Hopefully they will announce shipping to us before they announce Steam Deck 2

When is New Zealand going to get it? Apparently Gabe lives here and we don't even have it lol.

He hasn't lived here for a bit. He went back to Seattle a while ago. But yeah, he sheltered here during the height of the pandemic.

Get a used one off eBay then ship it to NZ

I wonder how it will do in Japan considering they love handhelds over there

the yen has tanked value compared to the usd.

The Deck was very well received during this year's TGS. It'll likely sell.

I reserved day 2 from Korea and my reservation number is thirty-two-thousand-something. Korea loves handhelds, and PC games, which bodes well for it here.

Sell like shit.

PC gaming isn't really that big here. Portable PC gaming? Miniscule.

Cries in Australian

Grieves in New Zealander.

Also cries in Swiss.

Gonna be old news by the time we can get it in Australia. Zen 2 in 2023 lol. I've already lost interest.

Ya, none of those countries is how you spell "Australia".

Came to say the same and thanks to

Seriously what the fuck valve?

One step closer to complete global saturation

Except for Australia.

I really wish Proton worked better for niche Japanese stuff before they released in Japan. Steam Deck is awesome in a lot of ways, but, sadly, Japanese and online gaming is where I find it the most lacking.

Not really the same teams I imagine. Not like manufacturing and procurement can just go lend a hand to teams working with comparability.

Same with general PC gaming lol.

The rest of asia: "Am I a joke to you?"

Asia is only Korea, China and Japan for them 😭

Maybe they should form a customs union that would not include, and compete against China, so companies like Steam could more easily setup import and logistics to multiple countries at the same time. But China would nuke anyone who even breathed a sound of such an idea.

When it comes to gaming, they treat Asia the same way rock band "world tours" treat Canada.

Cries in India

Same

Same

Lmao just bought a gaming Laptop because I started to think this wouldn't happen. Oh well. It was cheaper and it's significantly more powerful to boot, just not as portable (and loud as fuck).

hot as hell i bet

Cries in Switzerland

Cries in Mexico.

You guys are always the butt of the joke for american companies, I've seen countless announcements for NA and somehow México is not NA.

Cries in Brazil

Un día tendremos un deck, aunque sea traído del gabacho

Cries in middle east

Yet no shipping to Australia god damn it Valve are you serious?

This is the real chick in the nuts

Cries in SG

Even though they are hosting servers here....

those are huge markets for a handheld, specially now that they are getting more into PC gaming

That thing looks an interesting Christmas/new year present in Japan.

Man this is like waiting for artists to visit and hold a concert. Some parts in Asia just don't seem to exist to some people *sobbing noise*

This is insane. Gabe is a legend. He's just continued to keep pc ranking gaming going and getting better. Consoles will continue bleeding costumers to the pc arena with the way Gabe is doing things. Hoping Gabe never dies, truly a benevolent dictator.

What about Middle East? As far as I know, none of Valve's products were able to ship to Middle East.

Wonder when it will reach SEA

Best we can hope for is resellers not ripping us off too hard. Which probably won't happen.

Steam deck has been a godsend with my newborn baby. Anytime shes asleep i reach for it to get 10 mins of gaming in here and there. Instant resume on a pc game is still the best feature

RIP Brazil

South america?

Cries in Philippines

looking for steam deck in the philippines, the markups are 100-200%

TANGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this long enough for my girlfriend to forget that I just built a computer?

F for my Latino mates

Probably a good way to play all their JRPGs.

Probably different supplier. Once they ship in SG, the other countries in the SEA region (Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam) would be involved.

Cries in indian

but fuck Australia am I right?

I hope it means the next target is the middle east

“Taiwan”

Down with CCP!

If this gets us a step closed to having devs implement anti cheat for games like fifa and cod then hurry up!!!!

If a game's devs dont develop an anticheat that works with Linux there's not much anyone else can do about it.

Does Japan care? I thought PC games weren't very popular with the Japanese nerds. Though I guess they do like their handhelds from Nintendo

You missed the news on how much PC gaming is growing in Japan

Unseating Nintendo will be hard.

Meanwhile Nintendo is pulling their hair out over this thing.

Eh nah it's most likely the opposite if we can believe rumours and the datamines of the next gen Switch.

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When are they gonna sell these at Best Buy??

When you look into Valve's history. Probably never.

Chandler sucks. He’s just roided.

Great news, Glad you get to experiance it.

Still waiting for my country to be included

Meanwhile Switzerland literally touches Germany but somehow they can't ship it over there.

Considering how small european countries are, maybe taking a bus to germany or something? Jk

I'm still holding out for a Steam and Switch set top box.

By the time this thing ships in Switzerland I will have lost any interest I ever had in the device

Has anyone in Australia found a way to source a Steam Deck? Asking for a friend.

Does it ship to Germany as well ?

Hey, there ya go! Hope more follow soon.

Via komodo, an Indonesian animal. And you don't ship to Indonesia.

I picked up Brotato for 5 bucks last night. It’s so much fun to play on my deck.

they have to be so careful to not get fucked by china with the taiwan thingy

waiting for switzerland

Man, imagine what sort of a paradigm shift the Deck would really be in Japan... It would surely make pc gaming even more popular and thus encourage games from Japanese publishers for years to come!

no china yet? live here and the price ias about 150usd more than the US retail price. maybe after HK official distribution the price difference would lower a little bit.

Still patiently waiting for local availability in the Philippines... then again, I'd wait for things to normalize so we don't get it on an inflated exchange rate (Normal ₱50=$1; Inflated ₱58=$1)

I haven't gamed on my pc since getting a deck a month ago. Though, that might change this friday if Callisto Protocol gets good reviews.

Being a linux user I would of hoped it would of made a dent in the user base for pc linux gaming. It's still only like 1.2 something percent of steam users. Maybe this would help I don't think so though

Come on Valve, i want a steam deck since they announced them but i don't want to spend $1000+ because the only way to get one in south america is through scalpers

Cries in Mauritius.

I've had my steam deck for a couple months now, been playing civ 6 on it. Works great, can't wait for it to get in the hands of more people!

Ok but when can I order from my country to send to the US? I'm literally geoblocked from buying it even though I have a US address I can ship it to.

Middle east here be like "first time?"

Steam Deck in Japan could be huge. They love mobile gaming over there.

Great to see it being available to more users all over the world!

Still feels like they launched this thing two years too early. Their production output is worse than Tesla.

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