Valve have announced their alternative to Nintendo Switch

Have you been wanting to play your Steam library on the go? Now soon you can with the Steam Deck from Valve
Valve have announced their alternative to Nintendo Switch

Earlier this year, we wrote about Gabe Newell responds to Steam games on consoles. Now Valve have revealed their alternative to Nintendo Switch, the Steam Deck

Valve opened reservation for Steam Deck [↗] on July 16th in United States, Canada, European Union and the United Kingdom. More regions will come in 2022

Steam Deck will start shipping in December 2021

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Pick your model

Steam Deck will come in three versions, main difference between the three versions are storage, the speed of storage and accessories bundled with it

Cheapest model

Price: 419 EUR / 399 USD Storage: 64GB eMMC Extra: Carrying case

Middle model

Price: 549 EUR / 529 USD Storage: 256GB NVMe SSD Extra: Carrying case, Exclusive Steam Community profile bundle

Most expensive model

Price: 679 EUR / 649 USD Storage: 512GB NVMe SSD Extra: Premium anti-glare etched glass, Exclusive carrying case, Exclusive Steam Community profile bundle, Exclusive virtual keyboard theme

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What about my Steam library?

Considering Steam Deck will run SteamOS 3.0, which is a Linux distro. You might be wondering if you can play your existing library of games and to that Valve says yes. Developers does not need to port their games, as games will run through a combability program called Proton. If Developers want to optimize their games for SteamOS 3.0, they'll be able to do so

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Dock

Steam Deck will also support docked mode, but the dock will be sold seperatly

The dock features a network port, video output from both DisplayPort (1.4) and HDMI 2.0, three USB-ports and audio output

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