I will be visiting Europe and figured I might as well order a steam deck to my hotel in the Netherlands. However, I will only be staying there from december 3rd to the 5th (I leave at 00:00 of the 6th). Acording to the estimated arrival, it should arrive in time, but is that prediction from Valve reliable at all? And if it does not ship in time, am I fucked?
I wouldn’t trust it at the moment, no. It may improve as they get away from the launch rush and Black Friday, but on the other hand we’ve got Christmas coming up so it could even get worse.
I ordered mine on launch day while it still said 3-5 business days, and it took 7 (11 days total). And some people still seemed to be stuck waiting for theirs to dispatch when I got mine. So expect it to take at least a few days longer than estimated.