The battery on the new Deck (along with the other changes) make a bigger difference than I expected. I’m honestly surprised at how much better the battery life is on here.

Yes, ordered on launch at 6:24pm and arrived on Black Friday

Should be! I’m in the same boat

Mine was from 21/11 9am and it just updated last night to ‘Assigned delivery route’ UK

nope, still on it’s way to UK for me :(

Just means the deck has your label printed on it but the courier has not collected the pallet with your box on it from warehouse yet.

It’s all down to luck which pallet your deck is sat on and probably has little to do with the time you ordered it. Warehousing do not strategically place pallet collections based on picking time, & hand to the courier in that same order, especially not in a high volume situation like this launch. Not efficient unless you’re Amazon

The main bottleneck is how many courier collections you can get from the courier in a day, which is why you can sit on “not handed to GLS” for a little while. The tracking does not update to “we have it” until it gets unloaded & scanned at the courier’s sorting warehouse.

Try not to get caught up in the logic of ‘my neighbor ordered at the same time therefore we should get it same day’. It rarely plays out like this at fulfilment level.

Same here UK!!

Does the silicone case cover the intake vent on the back of the device?

How could anyone here possibly know this?

NW England it took 8 days from order to delivery day via Parcelforce (March23).

$200 repair!? Just spend the hour getting in there and replacing the dpad for $15. It might be fun, perhaps with your son? The risk of damaging anything are very low if you have a toolkit suitable for small electronics.

I’m sure you’re aware of the guide, but here is a link for convenience:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Steam+Deck+D-Pad+Button+Replacement/148937