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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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Leon

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Hooly sh*t at AC Origin's fidelity on a handheld.
Also try GRID 2 if you haven't. Looks and plays amazing on the Deck.

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Dual booting Windows for Game Pass. 👌

I have the 64gb variant I'll have to install an SSD for dual boot am afraid.
 

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Got the 64gb model with 512gb sd card. Playing games on High/Ultra and it's been fun to say the least.
Hot Damn man.. These look absolutely incredible. Just out of curiosity, the base 64GB version cannot dual boot WINDOWS and Steam OS ?
 

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Hot Damn man.. These look absolutely incredible. Just out of curiosity, the base 64GB version cannot dual boot WINDOWS and Steam OS ?
It can if you are brave enough to install an ssd. I heard 20-30% of users had issues so I never tried.
 

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Hot Damn man.. These look absolutely incredible. Just out of curiosity, the base 64GB version cannot dual boot WINDOWS and Steam OS ?
SteamOS doesn't require alot of storage but Windows does. Not enough space for both on 64GB drive.

I've allocated 100GB to Steam OS on my 256GB ssd, which has access to micro SD slot if I need more and the rest to Windows. Its alot for the Game Pass titles I play on it.



Even with these 14 games already installed, and Windows up to date, I have 48GB left over.
 
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I hear SD V2.0, will be more like what Switch OLED is to the Switch Regular & not a full on successor!
 

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I hear SD V2.0, will be more like what Switch OLED is to the Switch Regular & not a full on successor!
That's pretty good by Valve tbh. Good to know my Steam Deck won't be obsolete due to the next version already.
 

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That's unfortunate, it's already struggling with low presets on games releasing now. By next year it'll be even worse.


How's your SSD wala 4k console ps4 pro holding up at plague tale requiem? Or NFS unbound as compared to a handheld? 🤣🤣🤭
Iska competition to switch aur ps Vita hai Saeen
Kia chalaten Hain woh dono? 🤔
 

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How's your SSD wala 4k console ps4 pro holding up at plague tale requiem? Or NFS unbound as compared to a handheld? 🤣🤣🤭
Iska competition to switch aur ps Vita hai Saeen
Kia chalaten Hain woh dono? 🤔
When you don't even recommend people to buy Series S but want a 15W handheld to run all current gen games 🤡🤡🤡
 

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How's your SSD wala 4k console ps4 pro holding up at plague tale requiem? Or NFS unbound as compared to a handheld? 🤣🤣🤭
Iska competition to switch aur ps Vita hai Saeen
Kia chalaten Hain woh dono? 🤔
Bhai ap last gen se kyoo compare kar rahe ho, even the video compares it with the lowest end current gen console.

The $299 Series S is running circles around it and modern games are struggling to hit 30 FPS with the lowest settings.

At this rate Steam Deck will become a Switch-like indies only machine by next year unless there is a revision.


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$299 console that need a power outlet and a display to work, at that rate you've already spent way more than the console itself is worth..🤡

Meanwhile Steam Deck is running games that aren't even available on Pro or One X consoles. Welllll above its weight 🤜
 

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Bhai ap last gen se kyoo compare kar rahe ho, even the video compares it with the lowest end current gen console.

The $299 Series S is running circles around it and modern games are struggling to hit 30 FPS with the lowest settings.

At this rate Steam Deck will become a Switch-like indies only machine by next year unless there is a revision.


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Bro it's a handheld running at 15 watts beating last gen "pro" consoles. Do anyone really need to be told of how much of a game changer this is? I mean really? Even if you are not a fan of handheld gaming, this is probably the most enticing handheld in recent years, all for a 399$. If you know about handheld computers, you'll realize how cheap it actually is. On top of that it's "psuedo-emulating" windows games on a Linux platform so not even running games "natively" so to speak. Not only this is a revolution in handheld gaming, it's also a huge win for Linux gaming. Kudos to AMD and valve here, specially for the fact valve is not a hardware company. The praise for this little monster is well deserved honestly. I admittedly now, more than ever want to see competition from playstation, Xbox and Nintendo in term of handhelds. For now, this thing really does stands alone.

Oh and it's a whole azz computer too 😛
 

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Bro it's a handheld running at 15 watts beating last gen "pro" consoles. Do anyone really need to be told of how much of a game changer this is? I mean really? Even if you are not a fan of handheld gaming, this is probably the most enticing handheld in recent years, all for a 399$. If you know about handheld computers, you'll realize how cheap it actually is. On top of that it's "psuedo-emulating" windows games on a Linux platform so not even running games "natively" so to speak. Not only this is a revolution in handheld gaming, it's also a huge win for Linux gaming. Kudos to AMD and valve here, specially for the fact valve is not a hardware company. The praise for this little monster is well deserved honestly. I admittedly now, more than ever want to see competition from playstation, Xbox and Nintendo in term of handhelds. For now, this thing really does stands alone.

Oh and it's a whole azz computer too 😛
Saeen it may be a game changer when it first came out but the whole point of DF's video is to show that it's struggling with modern games. Game requirements will only increase with time, so this little miracle machine will not be able to play modern games at 30 FPS even at lowest presets. That's the point.

In their video, the only game where Steamdeck performs almost flawlessly is Uncharted 4, a 2016 PS4 game.
 

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Saeen it may be a game changer when it first came out but the whole point of DF's video is to show that it's struggling with modern games. Game requirements will only increase with time, so this little miracle machine will not be able to play modern games at 30 FPS even at lowest presets. That's the point.

In their video, the only game where Steamdeck performs almost flawlessly is Uncharted 4, a 2016 PS4 game.
The point is that no one is buying a handheld machine to play current gen only games for an arbitrary lifecycle when a console like Series S is already shipping with the worst versions of games and is expected to last til 2028 lol

The things that make Steam Deck a game changer are very much still there, whether you wanna admit it or not 🤷‍♂️
 

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Saeen it may be a game changer when it first came out but the whole point of DF's video is to show that it's struggling with modern games. Game requirements will only increase with time, so this little miracle machine will not be able to play modern games at 30 FPS even at lowest presets. That's the point.

In their video, the only game where Steamdeck performs almost flawlessly is Uncharted 4, a 2016 PS4 game.
Yeah, 1 teraflop rdna2 in a tiny 15 watts package will only go so far. Valve never advertised it as a "next gen" titles running handheld. That is probably impossible ATM. But it's doing surprisingly well and playing games even last gen Pro consoles couldn't. As for the time when it "won't" be able to run next gen games at sufficient framerates, it'll still have one of the best and largest game library of any handheld ever. Even more so for now compared to PS5. That is a feat itself
 

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Yeah, 1 teraflop rdna2 in a tiny 15 watts package will only go so far. Valve never advertised it as a "next gen" titles running handheld. That is probably impossible ATM. But it's doing surprisingly well and playing games even last gen Pro consoles couldn't. As for the time when it "won't" be able to run next gen games at sufficient framerates, it'll still have one of the best and largest game library of any handheld ever. Even more so for now compared to PS5. That is a feat itself
You know your handheld is a game changer when the only point people have against it is that its not matching 350 watts consoles (y)
 
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