When Valve unveiled the Steam Deck in July, it was hard to overstate the excitement as gamers rushed to pre-order the highly-anticipated device. Planning to begin releasing in November 2021, the sooner you pre-ordered one, the sooner you’d receive your Deck, with some not getting estimated ship dates until 2022. Unfortunately, now everybody will have to wait until 2022 to get their hands on a Steam Deck as Valve has today announced that the launch has been delayed two months to February 2022.

Blaming supply chain issues, Valve did assure purchasers that their place in line wold be preserved, but unfortunately that could mean that some won’t receive their units until late into 2022.

Read Valve’s full statement below:

“The launch of Steam Deck will be delayed by two months. We’re sorry about this—we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren’t reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates.

Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Reservation date estimates will be updated shortly after this announcement.

Again, we’re sorry we won’t be able to make our original ship date. We’ll continue working to improve reservation dates based on the new timeline, and will keep folks updated as we go.”