Valve Shows Half-Life 2 Running on a Steam Deck Prototype
A video has emerged showing Half-Life 2 booting up on an early prototype of the Steam Deck. While Valve's past hardware attempts have not really yielded positive reception, the company has finally been able to branch away from software with the release of its handheld device earlier this year. The Deck is currently being well received by gamers and is particularly noteworthy for its versatility and the fact that it's basically a portable PC that people can use on the go.
Valve also released images of some Steam Deck prototypes recently, showing the various stages the system went through before the company settled on the final product. Many will find it interesting to see the changes that occurred, with some of the early builds going back to mid-2019. Some may assume that, because these are prototypes, they probably didn't run any games competently, but a video from one of the developers shows that a previous iteration of the Deck could run one of the company's own titles.
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As seen by PC Gamer, Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais, who also showed off the prototypes, took to Twitter to show a previous version of the Steam Deck as it boots up. Once it loads into the operating system, a hand enters the frame to open up Half-Life 2. The rest of the video consists of the game loading to the main menu, with the familiar Valve music playing that so many fans are accustomed to. Along with the video, Griffais says that this particular prototype had about half the GPU power of the final release of the device.
It's perhaps understandable that Valve would want to show this specific game running on the Steam Deck. After all, both were developed by the company, with Half-Life 2
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