Valve’s Steam Deck is finally getting an official release date. witch, according to Valve’s announcement from Wednesday  will be on Feb. 25. Portable Gaming Hardware will start  shipping  out on Feb. 28 for the first batch of order emails to reservation holders. They will have 3 days (72 hours shortly after 10:00 am on February 25th, PST) from receipt of their order email to make their purchase, before their reservation is released to the next person in the queue. The order emails will be sent in the same order that reservations were made. The Steam Deck you ordered must be the same model that you originally reserved. The reservation deposit will be applied to the final price of Steam Deck, with no additional shipping costs.