Valve introduces Steam Deck

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Stasi said:
Where is this generations Chad Warden to offer an apologia for buying the latest pile of shit console from Sony. Its all been downhill since the PS2.
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Ps3 was good, it would be hard to live up to the ps2, but I think the ps3 did its own thing fine enough, the ps4 is when it all went downhill, all the games are too similar, smaller games pretty much died, sony left the vita to die.
 
Steam Deck Booklet

So we made a book about Steam Deck!

In preparation for Steam Deck launching in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, we wanted to introduce our new customers to Valve, Steam, and Steam Deck. So we made a small book – it’s about 50 pages, and we’ve translated it into Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and English.

The book includes:
  • Background on Valve and our philosophy around creating products and hardware to make our customers happy
  • An overview of Steam, how it came to be, and where it is now
  • The story of Steam Deck, how we designed it, and why we built it the way we did
  • Information about our collaboration with Komodo to launch in these new regions
  • Tons of pretty pictures of Steam Deck, prototypes, games, and more
We wrote, designed, and translated this book in-house, and now we’re making it available for everyone to download. It's available on
Valve's publications page
, or you can download it directly from the links below.
And for those of you who will be at the Tokyo Game Show in Japan next month, we will be there handing out a special physical version of this book at our hands-on Steam Deck booth. Hope to see you there!
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It's a pretty neat little thing that reads like a magazine. Something cool that stood out to me:
We’ll soon be shipping a general installer for SteamOS, enabling any PC to take advantage of all of its features. In addition, we’ll soon be making SteamOS available for other manufacturers who wish to make a gaming device of their own.
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So if you have a dedicated gaming computer that you'd like to use like a console, there's your solution.
 
Pissmaster said:
It's a pretty neat little thing that reads like a magazine. Something cool that stood out to me:

We’ll soon be shipping a general installer for SteamOS, enabling any PC to take advantage of all of its features. In addition, we’ll soon be making SteamOS available for other manufacturers who wish to make a gaming device of their own.

So if you have a dedicated gaming computer that you'd like to use like a console, there's your solution.
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That's pretty cool, I hope all of the tweaks and options like wattage and the scaling/FSR work on other hardware. I've got an old laptop with a Ryzen iGPU I'd like to mess around with, performance isn't super great but would be cool to mess around with and see if I can squeeze a bit more out of it.
 
A friend has one and I forced him to play Deep Rock Galactic on it with me; the built-in voice chat worked really well with the Steam Deck's microphones and we could communicate clearly. He had a hard time figuring out the button layouts but it was essentially painless. I was as impressed as the crossplay between PS4 and Switch Ultimate Chicken Horse.
 
Finally messing with the Steam Deck. I'm surprised how wide it is, I also expected it to be heavier but I'm glad it's not. The ergonomics are the best of any portable I've ever used, it feels good in the hands.

Does anybody else think the positions for the control pad and face buttons should have been swapped with the placements for touch pads?
 
SSj_Ness said:
I almost missed my email. I think I'll finally play Shenmue.
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Shenmue's actually one of the games that's marked as not compatible with the Steam Deck. I tried it on mine anyway, and it does work, but QTEs are broken. It doesn't flash the right button for you to press. You can still clear them if you guess right.

So, uh, you can play Shenmue as long as you're just goofing off and not trying to progress.
 
Pissmaster said:
Shenmue's actually one of the games that's marked as not compatible with the Steam Deck. I tried it on mine anyway, and it does work, but QTEs are broken. It doesn't flash the right button for you to press. You can still clear them if you guess right.

So, uh, you can play Shenmue as long as you're just goofing off and not trying to progress.
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That's too bad, guess I'll have to emulate that one if there's no workaround. How many instances of QTEs are there?
 
It's been a long time since I used a device that didn't feel like every possible corner had been cut. This thing is great. I'm excited to get all the hardware I need to try out proper wii u emulation and finally catch up with that library.
 
BillionBisonBucks said:
It's been a long time since I used a device that didn't feel like every possible corner had been cut. This thing is great. I'm excited to get all the hardware I need to try out proper wii u emulation and finally catch up with that library.
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Wii U emulation I would hold out if you have other stuff you want to do on the deck, as CEMU is about to get a native Linux port within the next few months. However if you want to play stuff now, it should still be great on the deck.

www.gamingonlinux.com

Wii U emulator Cemu getting closer to Linux and Steam Deck support

Work continues on the Wii U emulator Cemu to bring it over to Linux, and with that gain Steam Deck support.
www.gamingonlinux.com www.gamingonlinux.com
 
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