Gabe Newell has been personally handing out the Steam Deck to Customers

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell has been spotted hand-delivering the new Steam Deck to customers this week, some of them didn’t even order one.

Reddit user bitfiddler0 posted a picture of a Steam Deck in its case. He said that he had received an email saying that his Steam Deck would come early and be delivered on Saturday.

“Fast forward to today.. I told my wife to watch for deliveries while I went on a full-day ski trip with friends. The “delivery guy” comes and wife opens the door. He asks “Is Mike (not real name) home?” She says “no but you can leave the package with me….. and what’s with the camera crew?” Little did she know that the “delivery guy” was Gabe Newell

Gabe was a super cool and down-to-earth guy though. He said to email him if she has any feedback (to which my wife replied “OK, but what’s your name again?”)”

An image taken from bitfiddler0’s door cam clearly shows Gabe Newell personally bringing the Steam Deck to the door.

Another Reddit user called SeattleRainPidgeons further said that they had gotten a Steam Deck delivered by Valve’s CEO and that not only had he delivered it, he also signed its case as well.

“Saw a camera crew going up to my neighbor’s house while I was loading stuff into my truck. My roommate recognized the guy being followed as Gaben, I didn’t believe him, our other roommate then verified it was indeed Gabe. After delivering my neighbor’s Deck, we yelled “Hi Gabe!”. At which point he asked how many were living in the house, then he went back to his van and grabbed us each a Deck. Was also filmed receiving ours so I assume these will be used in some promo or online. Very cool day.”

The Steam Deck was released last week however due to a large backlog of pre-orders, anyone who wishes to order one now will have to wait until the second quarter of 2022 for it to arrive.

Gabe Newell handing you a personally signed Steam Deck seems like a dream come true. Hopefully, ours will arrive at some point this summer.

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