According to Valve, they couldn’t find a game yet that the Steam Deck couldn’t handle (or see those games not launch as intended…).

Since its announcement, we have discussed Steam Deck a couple of times. It’s going to have a Van Gogh APU that includes an AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU and an RDNA 2 GPU, and currently, it seems to provide Valve with the performance it needed. However, it might not necessarily be a future-proof machine, so the games in the next few years could be too much for the portable PC to handle. But that’s the music of the future.

„If people are still valuing high frame rates and high resolutions on [other] platforms. I think that content will scale down to our 800p, 30Hz target well. If people start heavily favouring image quality, we might be in a position where we might have trade-offs, but we haven’t seen that yet,” Pierre-Loup Griffais, one of the developers of Steam Deck, said. Remember that the Nintendo Switch has a smaller resolution, and 800p is the maximum that the Steam Deck can display!

„This is the first time we’ve achieved the level of performance that is required to run the latest generation of games without problems. All the games we wanted to be playable is, really, the entire Steam library. We haven’t found something we could throw at this device that it couldn’t handle,” he added. Also, Steam Deck’s UI is going to replace Steam’s Big Picture mode. (Is there anyone who regularly uses it…?)

Steam Deck will see its shipping begin in December. Remember that only the middle and the top tier model is going to include an NVMe SSD, although it’s a pretty new model at that.

Source: WCCFTech