I've been enjoying some quality time with the office Steam Deck. It's an impressive bit of kit for sure, though I'm hardly putting it through its paces by catching up on Mouthwashing and replaying 1000xResist for the nth time.
With a year full of anticipated RPGs ahead, I'm wondering how Valve's handheld will fare playing something more demanding like Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth or Avowed.
Well, Nvidia will be offering a big screen experience right there on your little screen later this year, as just announced at this year's CES, a native GeForce Now app is on its way to the Steam Deck (via The Verge).
According to the official blog post, game streaming via Geforce Now will deliver an experience with «all the bells and whistles of Nvidia technologies, including ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS,» with an Ultimate-tier membership promising, «all the same benefits as GeForce RTX 4080 GPU owners.» If you're after that big screen experience on a bigger screen though, Nvidia says, «the native GeForce Now app will offer up to 4K resolution and 60 frames per second with high dynamic range» should you hook your Steam Deck up to an HDR monitor (if you're looking for recommendations, we've got several).
Technically, cloud gaming via GeForce Now has already been available on Steam Decks since at least May last year, but this required a special script that somewhat streamlined an otherwise sidelong process.