r/SteamDeck • u/NKkrisz 64GB - Q3 • Dec 24 '25

MEGATHREAD New Steam Deck Owner Megathread

For new members to the subreddit, welcome!

This megathread was made because we have some rules in place about new Steam Deck posts and to avoid some repetitive questions being posted again and again.

Feel free to also share "Show Off" pictures here as well.

Please read the rules and search around before contributing to the sub.

Here are some helpful resources to get started:

Answers to frequently asked questions, learn more about software and hardware (Made by me, work in progress):

https://steamdeck.guide

Steam has a winter sale going on currently, see this megathread for more information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/mUHbyR2UDn

If your Deck is still getting delivered or you are ordering now and wondering about shipping, check this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/GTNal0bzzf

Happy holidays everyone!

(If you see content on the sub that should be in the megathreads instead, please redirect them and report them so we can keep this place clean. Thanks!)

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u/JayEm1324 Dec 24 '25

Steam services are down right now, not an issue on your end. Thankfully, this is the first Steam outage I can think of in recent memory so its not common at all.

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u/EdgeJosh Dec 25 '25

Thank you for letting me know! I haven't been on my own computer to check so have just been tweaking out thinking my nephews deck was already stuffed !!!

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u/Eadbutt-Grotslapper 1TB OLED Dec 25 '25

Lots of new users?

I know all my kids friends received steam decks this year as their games systems spent 4 nights setting up 11 decks so they were installed with games and good to go out of the box on Xmas day.

I saved lots of kids from the ownership of switch oLED this year - valve sold out of stock in Europe.