The Steam Deck will now play these breakout hits from PlayStation Vita, Switch, and Xbox

theverge.com:

Valve’s Steam Deck portable game system, launching February 25th, won’t necessarily play every Windows game you own — but a brand-new release of Valve’s Proton compatibility layer, version 7.0, is making the PC versions of PlayStation Vita hit Persona 4 Golden, Nintendo Switch darling Monster Hunter Rise, and Xbox favorite Forza Horizon 5 playable. Heck, we might even be getting Apex Legends as well.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Monster Hunter and Persona were killer apps for the PlayStation Vita, and all three of these games are fantastic titles whose journey to PC we’ve been following with great interest. (My colleague Jay called Forza Horizon 5 “the perfect portable Xbox game” after using Microsoft’s xCloud to stream it to a phone.)

But there’s been an open question whether the Steam Deck would get games like these and play them well: Persona 4 Golden in particular has been notoriously broken on Linux via Proton, though the mysterious message “Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck” did provide some hope last month:

Regarding Persona 4 Golden, the note says that Valve is still working on adding support for Steam Deck but for now is listed as unsupported pic.twitter.com/HsNL9INvvA

Forza Horizon 5 was an even weirder situation: there, Valve actually allowed early Steam Deck hardware reviewers to play that specific game, even though it wasn’t officially listed as a compatible title and didn’t run all that well! Now, there’s confirmed support.

Between those and an array of PlayStation-first games becoming playable on Steam Deck — including new PC release God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, andDeathloop — it’s becoming an increasingly intriguing portable.

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