Steam Deck Demand is Exceeding Valve's Expectations

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After months of build-up, the Steam Deck was released today, with systems beginning to ship to customers that reserved an order. As a result, many gamers will soon be getting their first chance to go hands-on with the portable gaming PC. Recently, the co-founder of Valve, Gabe Newell, talked about the launch of the Steam Deck.

In an interview with IGN, Newell discussed the demand for the Steam Deck as well as the future for the system. According to the developer, he revealed that the demand for the product at launch had exceeded the expectations of the company. In addition, the co-founder said that the future for the Steam Deck and portable gaming was looking bright. “We have reached the point where you have a mobile gaming device that can pretty much do anything, and it only gets better from here on out for PC gamers," he said.

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He continued to discuss the demand for the system, noting that he believed its popularity would impact the rest of the industry moving forward. According to Newell, other developers will look to apply some of the ideas from the Steam Deck when working with their own technologies. «I think some of the key problems that we're solving are going to apply generally to lots of hardware manufacturers in the PC space,» he said.

In addition to talking about demand for the Steam Deck, he touched on the formulation of the system. Based on comments from Newell, he said that the idea of having a portable gaming PC had been a hot topic for years. Interestingly, he related the discussion to the Nintendo Switch, commenting that the gaming community had desired a way to play PC games on portable devices long before Nintendo's hybrid system had existed. However,