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Spec Analysis: Steam Deck - Can It Really Handle Triple-A PC Gaming?

Digital Foundry : There had been rumours, rumblings and actual, solid reporting of a handheld from Valve for some time now, but the hardware has finally broken cover - and it's looking promising. Steam Deck is built on the same architectural building blocks as the new consoles from Sony and Microsoft, downscaled and refactored for a handheld. With up to 1.6TF of GPU compute power aimed at delivering circa 720p gaming, the idea is to break PC gaming free from the traditional limitations of the PC itself. It's a handheld designed to be as liberating as Nintendo Switch, but tied into the openness and sheer size of the Steam ecosystem.

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darthv721771d ago

If newer games can scale to the wide range of gpu cards like the 1070 up to current... then this can hold its own just fine.

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kryteris1770d ago

Can the 64GB sd card onboard handle future games? 100MB/s? Will that dual boot windows 11, or will that be an option to boot off sd card. Probably, right? pc after all.

Zeref1770d ago (Edited 1770d ago )

Unless the game requires an SSD, you'll be fine with 100MB per second. That's actually faster than PS4/Xbox One. It can handle any game you throw at it. It just loads slower, nothing dealbreaking imo

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kryteris1770d ago (Edited 1770d ago )

Make or break will also be the joysticks, will they behave like a normal controller's. They look like normal ones.

Neonridr1770d ago

Valve had some issues with the Index Controllers suffering drift, but these look larger than those, so fingers crossed.

n1kki61770d ago

At it's 720p resolution, absolutely. Docked, time will tell. Also hilarious are people calling this out as some niche product for the hardcore. Steam has 120 million active users a month. This could be a huge win for Valve. If 120 million active users isn't main stream enough for people, then those people are asshats. PC gaming is more main stream than any other console by active user count.

jukins1770d ago

Well like any launch product it is indeed for hardcore. Unless youre telling me a bunch if casual pc gamers where waitingnall day to preorder.

This looks solid and if it delivers on its promise then yes its a huge win for valve. Id love to see this be succesful personally if could play my pc library gamepass whatever ps games end up on pc as seamless as theyve shown ill definetly purchase. But for now its just a hardcore dream imo

n1kki61770d ago

Of course. Which is the case for every single hardware release. Launch adoption is always intended for the "hardcore" core audience. Retaining and/or marketing to to those users is key. But that's not exclusive to Steam. That applies to Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.

Vegamyster1770d ago

Selling hardware is not the same as having a large community for a free service that can be put on any computer, it just mean PC gaming is popular as a whole. I have the top of the line model reserved because i love stuff like this and can see if it has issues with the Q1 base models but i can't pretend that it will be a sure fire success, right now it is a niche market that no ones really dived into it outside some smaller companies, it is an unproven hardware market.

n1kki61770d ago

It's not a niche just because it's targeted to the early adopter segment of their entire market. Just because the steam app is free and some of those users might be "casual" don't marginalize the possible reach. The only company going completely "main stream" at the this stage is MS with game pass streaming on phones and soon TVs. But these early launches are always targeted at the current user base. But hitting 120 million users, free app or not, it about as main stream as it gets. Those are ACTIVE users, which is higher than Sony, MS, or Nintendo. Steam is main stream.

Vegamyster1770d ago (Edited 1770d ago )

Nobody is saying Steam isn't mainstream, again that doesn't inherently mean this hardware will be a massive success, people who use Steam already have a PC they're playing on and this isn't going to be an upgrade spec wise for most people based on hardware survey lists, it'll be a sub group of the user base and other groups like those looking at gaming laptop alternatives ect.

Profchaos1770d ago

Tflop is the sum of all parts numbers the total compute power not really the sum of the capabilities.

So DF videos are raising concerns that this may work perfectly fine now but in the near future may not have the power required to run a modern game once next gen only development really begins.

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