The reboot that was slated for February, has now been pushed back to August

As the world tries to return to normal after the global pandemic, some things are still being affected, causing delays to production. Valve’s Steam Deck and Panic’s Playdate have been delayed as both handheld consoles have been affected by a chip shortage that has affected other consoles globally.

Yet there are also setbacks with games too, and the Saints Row reboot developed by Volition is having to face that same fate.

Saints Row 

Saints Row was announced back in August during Gamescom’s Opening Night. It was announced that this would be the biggest Saints Row game yet and would be set in Santo Ileso, a fictional city in South-West America.

During the announcement, the game was said to have a February 2022 release date and even had a CGI trailer to accompany the announcement. Now, the Chief Creative Officer has stated that the game will be pushed back to August 2022 in regards to quality concerns.

 

Our priority is to create the best Saints Row game yet and, if we released on the original date, it wouldn’t be up to the standards we’ve set ourselves, and that you’re expecting and deserve. The team just need more time to do our vision justice; we’re doing some fine tuning and there won’t be much change in the game outside of overall quality and polish.

In all honesty, we underestimated the impact COVID would have on our schedule, although everyone adapted very quickly to the working from home arrangement and continued to be incredibly productive.

However, due to the size and scope of our new Saints Row, it’s become apparent that to create the best game possible, we need to give our team longer to perfect their craft. – Jim Boone, Chief Creative Officer.

 

Boone goes on to reassure fans that the game’s storyline and characters will be staying intact after initial backlash from fans regarding the reboot.

Saints Row will now be released on August 23, 2022.

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The handheld console has been delayed to 2022 due to battery and CPU issues

Panic released an update regarding its handheld console Playdate which was expecting its first batch of pre-orders to be released at the end of 2021. Sadly this is no longer the case and the company has had to push back its release date.

People that have already pre-ordered the Playdate will have to wait ’til 2022 now to receive the handheld console due to issues that came up with the batteries and CPU.

Causes for Playdate Delay

Panic released an update via Twitter and an email to its pre-order adopters about why the Playdate is now expecting a release in 2022.

Hi! If you've pre-ordered a Playdate, check your email for a copy of the "Playdate Owner's Update #1".

There's bad news (a battery tragedy means Late 2021 units are now Early 2022, see email for your timing) but also good news (Pulp+SDK release dates!!)

Thanks for reading it. pic.twitter.com/03BUolZetY

— Playdate (@playdate) November 11, 2021

The company stated that the first issue that arose was the battery life. Panic received the first 5000 finished Playdate units and began testing them for the team to realise the battery life was not what they were expecting.

Playdate’s battery is designed to last a very long time, and always be ready for you, even if not used for a while. But that was not the case. In fact, we found a number of units with batteries so drained, Playdate wouldn’t power on at all – and couldn’t be charged. That’s a battery worst-case scenario.

Panic then made the difficult, expensive decision to send all 5000 Playdates back so the batteries could be replaced and it luckily worked out for the company, giving it the battery life it wanted in the first place.

Another issue that occurred was the CPU Panic wanted to use for the Playdate was out of stock and would be for another 2 years, so the company had to replace it with a more widely used CPU. This links back to the global chip shortage all consoles are facing right now, causing Valve’s Steam Deck to delay its release date to 2022 too.

Panic did reassure the people who’ve pre-ordered the device that their place in the line hasn’t changed. The first 20,000 orders will now receive their units in early 2022, and orders from 20,000 to 50,000 will now be sent out in the second half of 2022 instead of earlier in the year. The Playdate sold 20,000 units incredibly quickly, so there will be a lot of people waiting for the second batch of Playdates.

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Valve’s portable PC launch date has been delayed into next year

Disappointing news for anyone that has already reserved Valve’s Steam Deck as the company are having to delay the launch of its product.

Expected to release at the end of this year, the Steam Deck has now been pushed back by two months.

Valve’s Steam Deck

Valve published a statement on Wednesday to explain the reasons for the delay and also apologised for any inconveniences:

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.

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. – Steam.

Valve also informed customers that February 2022 would be the new start date of the reservation queue and that all reservation holders will keep their place in line but the dates will shift back accordingly.

There has been a global supply chain issues for some time due to the global pandemic which is why PlayStation are using air frieght to make sure there won’t be a PS5 shortage for Christmas. It makes sense this is now affecting the production lines for Valve’s Steam Deck.

The Steam Deck was originally announced in July and advertised as a handheld PC that runs the latest version of Valve’s SteamOS software and will allow users access to their Steam library and play AAA games as well as use web browsers, visit online game stores other than Steam, and use video-streaming services.

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