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

Published: 18 Jul 2021
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
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 itCheapest model
Price: 419 EUR / 399 USD Storage: 64GB eMMC Extra: Carrying caseMiddle model
Price: 549 EUR / 529 USD Storage: 256GB NVMe SSD Extra: Carrying case, Exclusive Steam Community profile bundleMost 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 themeWhat 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 soDock
Steam Deck will also support docked mode, but the dock will be sold seperatlyThe 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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