Everyone currently holding a Steam Machine reservation should get an choice to buy before the tip of this yr, in keeping with a latest update from Valve. The corporate began shipping at the tip of June, right on the summer window it committed to, and is now fulfilling orders day by day by sending purchase emails out within the order people landed within the queue after randomization.
Reservation queues and waitlists are handled per product and per region, which implies they move at different speeds depending on demand. Valve says it has already reached the tip of the reservation queue for some products in some regions and has began pulling people off the corresponding waitlists. Nobody on a waitlist is jumping ahead of an existing reservation holder, though, since Valve only dips right into a waitlist once that exact queue runs dry.
Valve also owned as much as a misstep with the primary group moved off a waitlist, who were sent an option-to-order email robotically without an intermediate step. Anyone coming off a waitlist from here on will first get a message confirming they’ve been added to the reservation queue, with the acquisition email following sometime after that. It’s the identical queue system Valve has been refining on the Steam Controller side since May.
Once a purchase order email does land, there’s a 72 hour window to finish the order before Valve moves on to the following person in line. That applies to everyone who gets one, so the inbox tied to the reservation is the one to look at.
Two smaller updates got here alongside the queue news. FSR 4.1 is now available on Proton Experimental for titles that support the FSR upgrade path, and the CAD file for Steam Machine’s external geometry is now available to download from Valve’s GitLab.
Steam Machine pricing starts at $1,049, and Valve has been filling within the gaps since launch with things like an official setup guide video. Our own Steam Machine review publishes tomorrow, Wednesday, July 29, after two weeks of testing.