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Valve’s Steam Deck in our hands

Switch-like Steam portable is coming this December


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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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CerebralTiger

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Kya karein, 800x400 resolution deikhnay ke baad thorda bohat jalna tou banta hi hai 🤣

Yeh performance, upar se fan aisay ramp up hota hai jaisay an Eternal Blizzard is about to take off 🤷‍♂️:LOL:

Aur abhi loug iss Deck pe Returnal (a game that runs natively at 1080p on PS5) khelna chah rahay hain 😂🥴
 
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Jo Switch games 4K display pe chala rahe hain unnka jal jal ke bacha hi kya hai? 🤣

CerebralTiger thinks because he got the inferior fan on his PS5, everyone must've on their devices too. Yikess 🤣

Retooooornal khelne ki to bohat options hongi compared to 0 on the Switch 🤷‍♂️🤣
 

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Switch users will be too busy playing the Metroid Prime remake to care 🤷‍♂️:LOL:

Also, imagine thinking the quietest fan of the 3 possible variants inside the PS5 is the worst one. Yikes! 🤣
 
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"And of course gyro. Valve recommends it"...using this massive steering wheel? Yikes! 🤣

Also, who used gyro for the first time in controllers? Let's hear it from Necrokiller 🤷‍♂️:LOL:
 
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"Steering wheel" is for when you use the gyro as your main camera control. Not a problem for finer aim with gyro, when there is a trackpad to take care of the main camera movement. These things are hard to grasp when you've only used it "at a friend's place" :ROFLMAO:
 
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Trackpad :sick:

Nintendo innovated with gyro on the Wiimote, and they had the right idea to use it as a pointer since the very beginning. It was later copied by PS Move and Razer Hydra (which Valve officially supported in its games) 🤷‍♂️:LOL:
 
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Yea but how much you sold it for is what I'm asking
$800, it was the 512 GB version, still sealed. It was selling for $1000 around launch, seems to have dropped a bit now that a lot more people are getting deliveries. $750-$800 seems to be the sweet sport rn for the 512 gb version.
 

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This is the best news in a long time. Weird thing is that every time valve increases production speed, I have a bad day. Last time Technoblade died, and yesterday I just had a really stressful day 🤣🤣

I’ve now been moved to Q4 2022, probably around the start, and if you reserve your steam deck RIGHT NOW, you will get it THIS YEAR!!! Around the end of Q4 2022

“Hello! We're excited to announce that we're going to be able to fulfill demand sooner than we had estimated for everyone in the reservation queue. Many of the supply chain shortfalls that affect Steam Deck are gradually clearing up, and we're continuing to ramp production, so we're able to produce more Decks faster than ever before.

As of today we've updated the reservation windows, and everyone who's
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in the reservation queue will get their Steam Deck email this year. Many customers who were in the "Q4 or later" window have been bumped up to "Q3 (July-September)" window. And everyone else is now solidly in the "Q4 (October-December)" window.

As of this moment, new reservations will be in the Q4 bucket, but if these queues fill up it will flip over into the following quarter. To see your reservation window,
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We're happy we'll be able to get Steam Decks into your hands faster than we had estimated. It has been great to see all the positive feedback, impressions, and amazing things you all have already been doing with your Steam Decks. We can't wait to see even more in the coming months.

That's it for today, more news soon.”

A side affect of this will be that prices of steam decks on eBay should decrease rapidly, and scalpers will not get as much money ;)

I also found a really nice guy on steam who offered to pay for my steam deck. I do believe him because he got my friends copies of the game ‘Rust’ and got me DayZ. Basically a rich guy.

(btw yes I am a steam deck fanboy lmao)
 

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