Valve Steam Deck: Release date, price, features, and how to reserve one
(Pocket-lint) — Valve's long-rumoured Steam Deck is now official. Well, almost. The Switch-like handheld gaming device was due to release later this year in the US and the UK, but Valve delayed the launch by two months.
Here's what you need to know.
Ever wish you could play more of your favourite PC games on the Switch?
Well, in July 2021, Valve unveiled Steam Deck, a handheld PC for gaming that could shake up the portable market in a big way.
With the Steam Deck, you can access your entire existing Steam library immediately upon logging in. It runs a modified SteamOS, allowing you to download and play games such as Doom Eternal.
It also lets you install and operate PC software on it, including a web browser, other game stores like the Epic Games Store, and video-streaming services. It even connects to a monitor and gaming peripherals like a keyboard and mouse, or a controller.
And, because of its cloud-saving feature, you can seamlessly pick up game save files between your Steam Deck and PC.
Steam Deck features a 7-inch 1280 x 800 touchscreen for 720p gameplay. It's touch-enabled to let you control suitable games that way, too.
In terms of power, every Steam Deck offers the same power 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and an AMD APU containing a quad-core Zen 2 CPU with eight threads and eight compute units’ worth of AMD RDNA 2 graphics.
There are three different storage tiers available, though: 64GB eMMC storage, 256GB NVMe SSD storage, and 512GB of high-speed NVME SSD storage. You can also expand the storage via microSD on any of the models.
The Steam Deck boasts 16GB of unified LPDDR5 memory, with a total of 88GB/s of bandwidth. The GPU will apparently have access to up to 8GB of that shared memory.
Other features include built-in
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