While most have heard about the various gaming PCs and systems available and are aware of the steam platform; the upcoming offering by the Valve developer in collaboration with Steam using the steam OS is a marriage of both ideas, resulting in a handheld gaming console more similar to the Nintendo switch in shape, but with the power of something in the Xbox series.
The Valve Steam deck will be released in February 2022 but is available for pre-order now on the Steam store.
So stick with us, and we’ll answer the burning questions you have, like what the Steam deck is? What can the Steam Deck run? How much does a Steam Deck cost? And most importantly, if you should get on.
What is a Steam Deck?
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Steam, the popular website and app that has been distributing free and paid games for millennia has dipped its toes into the console market…again, but steam is intent on doing it right this time!
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The Steam Deck looks like a Nintendo switch ripoff on the surface, but do not be mistaken. It is oh so much more than just a handheld gaming device. The Steam Deck runs the steam OS, allowing you to run every steam game that supports it!
Many popular games like Terraria, Hollow Knight, Stardew Valley, Left 4 Dead 2 have already released steam deck compatible versions of their games! For anyone wondering, The device has an AMD APU containing a quad-core Zen 2 CPU with eight threads and eight compute units’ worth of AMD RDNA 2 graphics, alongside 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
