It’s (almost) here. | Image: Valve
Valve is now letting you make a reservation for its official Steam Deck Docking Station. The dock will cost $89. When I made my reservation just a few minutes after reservations opened up, I was given an expected order window between October and December. One of my colleagues is having less luck — they’ve been stuck on a “loading” message.
Valve’s official dock is intended to make it easier to hook up the handheld gaming PC to a monitor or television. It has three USB-A 3.1 Gen 1 ports, a gigabit ethernet port, a DisplayPort 1.4 port, and an HDMI 2.0 port. The dock connects to your Steam Deck via a USB-C cable that plugs into the USB-C port on the top of the device. Unlike the Nintendo Switch, using the dock won’t increase the power of…