{"id":831525,"date":"2026-07-29T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:30:15","slug":"valve-expects-steam-machine-reservations-to-be-checked-off-by-the-end-of-the-year-and-no-leapfrogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/831525\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve expects Steam Machine reservations to be checked off by the end of the year, and no “leapfrogging”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valve has provided an update<\/a> on its Steam Machine orders, saying that anyone currently in the reservation queue will get a chance to purchase by the end of the year. It has been close to a month since Valve started shipping Steam Machine units, a week after pre-orders went live<\/a>. Reservations have been randomized to minimize bots and scalpers taking up early spots.<\/p>\n

Estimates suggest Valve may be selling more than 15,000 Steam Machines per week<\/a>, and the latest update from the company reveals it is \u201cfulfilling orders on a daily basis\u201d \u2013 sending out emails to those waiting in the queue and giving them the option to complete their purchase. Valve is also making sure no one is \u201cleapfrogging\u201d from the waitlist to the purchasing stage.<\/p>\n

Steam Machine orders so far<\/p>\n

Due to high demand, along with memory and storage shortages, you cannot simply order a Steam Machine<\/a> and get one right away. The process is split into the waitlist and the reservation queue. Those in the waitlist are waiting to be placed in the reservation queue, and those already in the queue are waiting for an email that lets you finally purchase the system.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re fulfilling orders on a daily basis, sending out emails to reservation holders with the option to purchase in the order in which they landed on the list post-randomization. We expect everyone in the reservation queue will have the option to purchase by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Source: Steam Community<\/a><\/p>\n

Valve is ensuring those in the queue are prioritized, even as different products and regions move at different speeds. The company says it had unintentionally given those on the waitlist a chance to purchase, but this has now been resolved. \u201cNo one on the waitlist is leapfrogging over anyone currently holding a reservation; we\u2019re only dipping into waitlists if and when we reach the end of the reservation queue for that product and region.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a reservation, you can expect an email offering you the chance to purchase by the end of the year,\u201d says Valve, and for those even further back in the waitlist, there is a chance you\u2019ll be moved up into the reservation queue, though this depends on the product you\u2019re listed for. Once you finally receive a purchase email, you have 72 hours to complete it before Valve moves on to the next person in the queue, so there\u2019s not a whole lot of time to hesitate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PC Guide is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-831525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}