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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Another Genesis-inspired shooter for the collection? Yessir!

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