In addition, each Steam account was limited to only one pre-order, which cost $5 to place. To place a pre-order on Friday, you had to have owned a Steam account that made a purchase prior to June 2021.
But in some good news, Valve seems to have come up with effective safeguards to prevent online scalpers from crashing the party. The initial batch of pre-orders for the Steam Deck did sell out quickly on Friday morning, which may make the product hard to come by once it ships in December. “WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR MAN?!?! PAPA'S GOTTA EAT,” wrote one scalper, who’s trying to sell his Steam Deck pre-order for $5,000 to someone’s who “filthy rich.” But some scalpers are betting desperate consumers will pay more. The eBay listings for the Steam Deck began to trickle in shortly after pre-orders for the handheld gaming PC kicked off on Friday morning. And according to Valve, the customers that were able to get their orders in yesterday should have their Steam Decks ship in December, barring any unforeseen production hitches (which seem to be common these days).As expected, scalpers are already trying to profit off of the Steam Deck by selling confirmed pre-orders for the device from $1,000 to as much as $4,100. Unlike most product preorders, which require you to pay the full price of the product upfront, Valve only requires a $5 refundable deposit. Unsurprisingly, the first batch of preorders sold out quickly, not only to eager gamers but also scalpers. The device is priced at $399, $529, and $649 respectively for 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB configurations. Preorders for the Steam Deck kicked off yesterday at 1 PM EST, and it didn't take long for enthusiasts to crash the Steam store, causing all sorts of issues. The 7-inch handheld gaming PC runs a SteamOS flavor of Linux and comes with some relatively powerful hardware under the hood: a custom quad-core AMD Zen 2 CPU that pairs with an RDNA 2 GPU. Valve dropped a rather intriguing bombshell on the gaming market on Thursday when it revealed the Steam Deck.
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