Steam Deck Handheld Console Discussion
Imagine having a handheld device, that can play all your PC games anywhere you go. Having your whole catalogue of Steam games, right in your hands. Welcome the surprise announcement that will likely shake up the gaming industry. The aggressively priced; STEAM DECK.
Official Website (https://www.steamdeck.com)
It isn't even trying to hide who this is targeting, and it will likely destroy and eat up Nintendo Switch sales among people who are PC gamers and console players. The competition has begun.
Valve made the surprise reveal of its new Steam Deck on Thursday. The portable device, which looks similar to the Nintendo Switch and plays PC games and acts as a standalone computer. The company offered up basic details on its new system, saying it'll be available in December 2021.
The Steam Deck is Valve's entry into the portable gaming device market. It looks similar to a Switch but with a 7-inch touchscreen, 16GB of RAM, and powered by a custom Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 graphics, which is enough power to run most AAA games. Reservations for the device went live Friday -- but they went fast.
Reservations started Friday at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on the Steam Deck reservation page (https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamdeck). Steam's servers were wrecked, frankly, by the vast number of people trying to get their hands on a Steam Deck. The reservation page has since grayed out the options to reserve the new handheld gaming PC.
There are three different Steam Decks being released. The starter unit is $399 and comes with 64GB of storage. For $529, the storage increases to 256GB and uses an NVMe SSD, which Valve says is faster than the eMMC storage of the cheaper model. The third Steam Deck has a price tag of $649. It has 512GB of NVMe SSD storage with the fastest read and write speed, and it will have an anti-glare etched screen. All three will have a microSD slot for more storage. They made it so you can simply pull in and out different MicroSD chips with game data and it will instantly show what is on the chip.
System Specs (https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech)
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