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Valve’s Steam Deck in our hands

Switch-like Steam portable is coming this December


two people playing co-op with two Steam Deck units



The Steam Deck is a new handheld device from Valve for playing PC games on the go, the company announced Thursday. The Nintendo Switch-like device is set for release in December starting at $399.

Previously rumored as the “SteamPal,” the Steam Deck is a portable PC that’s slightly larger than the Nintendo Switch. It features a 7-inch touchscreen, two thumbsticks, a D-pad, and a four-button layout. There are also two trackpads — one on either side of the machine, under the thumbsticks — to allow for increased precision. The Steam Deck has eight triggers on its back: four on the device’s shoulders and four more where the ring and pinky fingers rest.

The Steam Deck will run games from players’ existing Steam libraries. Players will simply log into their account, and their friends and catalog should follow them onto the handheld. The Steam Deck is capable of running PC games on its own hardware, without the power of the cloud. Videos released by Valve show people using the Steam Deck to natively play games such as Baldur’s Gate 3, Crusader Kings 3, Disco Elysium, Hades, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Players can also purchase a dock that allows the Steam Deck to run on a TV.



Inside, the Steam Deck boasts an accelerated processing unit (APU) built by AMD. Its CPU is based on the company’s Zen 2 microarchitecture and tops out at 3.5 GHz. The GPU contains eight RDNA 2 compute units running at up to 1.6 GHz, delivering peak performance of 1.6 teraflops. The system packs 16 GB of RAM and a microSD card slot, allowing users to expand upon the built-in storage. The Steam Deck’s 7-inch screen is an LCD with a 16:10 aspect ratio and a 60 Hz refresh rate at a 720p resolution of 1280x800. The Steam Deck also features a dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi radio — it’s compatible with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks — and Bluetooth 5.0 for controllers, accessories, and (unlike the Switch) audio.


At launch, the Steam Deck will be available in three models with different storage options. Valve says there are no performance differences between the three versions — aside from the speed of the flash memory, which will provide varying read and write speeds.

The $399 base model offers 64 GB of storage in the eMMC format. The next model up costs $529, and packs faster storage courtesy of a 256 GB PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD; it also comes with an “exclusive Steam Community profile bundle.” The top-tier Steam Deck, at $649, includes a 512 GB NVMe SSD that Valve refers to as “high-speed,” although it is still a PCIe 3.0 drive. In addition, this model’s screen features “premium anti-glare etched glass.” The unit comes with an exclusive carrying case and exclusive virtual keyboard theme, on top of the cheaper models’ bonuses.

Steam users will be able to reserve any of the three Steam Deck models (for a fee) starting at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday, July 16 — as long as they made a purchase on the Steam Store at some point before June 2021. If not, they’ll have to wait until 48 hours later.
 
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iampasha

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The games that IGN played including Control, Jedi fallen order and others during there visit to valve were running straight from the sdcard and not the internal SSD 😮

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Deck's ram is quad channel 16gb lpddr5 with a bandwidth of 55000MT/S instead of the dual channel valve previously claimed
 
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It's a portable PC, hence the ginormous size & shape.

eh, not for me!
 

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Cross-quoting from the PS5 thread.

Whats even your point anymore? Linux compatibility has been a long time project well before they were in the market to make hardware. 🤷‍♂️
The point is progress. Progress was limited prior to the development of the Deck. They announced both Steam Deck and major progress in Steam OS compatibility together for a reason.

Its not the first time Valve is making hardware. Only difference is the form factor they are extended PC gaming into
It's their first standalone hardware. They never produced Steam Machines outside of the very limited prototype 🤷‍♂️

Depends on many factors such as marketing and world wide product availability among other things. You're probably not even gonna Steam Deck a success unless they sell 85+ million units :ROFLMAO:
The Switch is probably well past 85 million now. Oh wait, will I need to move my post to the Nintendo section now? 🤣
 
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The point is progress. Progress was limited prior to the development of the Deck. They announced both Steam Deck and major progress in Steam OS compatibility together for a reason.
And the progress means Steam Deck is a console now? lolwut?
 

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The progress means that the Deck doesn't need to run Windows as the default OS, and instead can come with Steam OS pre-installed along with a far superior BPM than the one currently available on PC. Progress yo! 🤣

Also, welcome to the Steam Deck thread. Please make yourself comfortable 🤣🤜
 

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The Steam Deck is plug and play from the get-go 🤷‍♂️
Heck, you don't even need to pair a wireless controller 😄
with Steam OS pre-installed along with a far superior BPM than the one currently available on PC.
It also strengthens the case for Steam Deck (for those not interested in a PC), a console that'll be able to run PS and Xbox games w/ no subscription required to play online.
Lagta hai keh Steam Deck pe dil aagaya hai :ROFLMAO:
 

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Nah, but thanks to Steam Deck, Steam OS is finally a viable alternative for my SFF PC. And with PS and Xbox games on PC, I'll just play them there for free when they're available 🤣
 
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