Valve reveals the release date of its Steam Deck console, so you can get it
Steam Deck is almost here. Valve’s answer to the Nintendo Switch lets you play nearly every Steam game on handheld.
The wait is about to end. The lucky ones who were able to reserve it will very soon have in their hands the long-awaited portable console from Valve.
Steam Deck goes on sale on February 25, at the moment only through Valve’s official website, because the initial stock will be low.
Steam Deck lets you play thousands of Steam games in handheld mode, similar to the Nintendo Switch. But it will be much more powerful. Here you can see it in action:
Just sign in with your Steam account to access the games you have in your Library on your console. There is even an option to automatically transfer games from console to PC, and vice versa, to play in one or the other as you wish.
Will be marketed later a dock to connect it to the TV, with what would already be an almost perfect clone of the Nintendo Switch but in a PC version, and without removable controls.
Keep in mind that works under Linux, so 100% of the games will not be compatible, but the vast majority.
From February 25 Valve is going to start sending emails to the reserve list, and people will have 3 days to buy the console.
If they don’t want it, they will lose the reservation (4 euros), and their console will go to the next one on the waiting list. So Valve will start shipping the Steam Deck on February 28.
In the Press release announces that will be opening the reservation list every week, depending on the stock.
Steam Deck It has its own processor created by AMD, and based on the Zen 2 and RDNA 2 architectures. With 16 GB of RAM.
The 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1200 x 800 pixels, with a frequency of 60 Hz and a brightness of 400 nits. Here are the full specifications:
| Characteristics | Steam Deck |
|---|---|
| Screen | 7-inch LCD touch screen 1280 x 800 pixels at 60 Hz. 400 nits |
| Processor | APU AMD CPU: Zen 2 4 núcleos y 8 hilos, 2.4-3.5 GHz (hasta 448 GFlops FP32) GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1-1.6 GHz (hasta 1.6 TFlops FP32) |
| Memoria RAM | 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM |
| connectivity | Bluetooth 5.0, WiFi dual-band 2×2 MIMO 802.11ac |
| Audio | 2 stereo speakers with DSP, microphone, headphone jack |
| Storage | 64 GB eMMC (PCIe Gen 2 x1), o 256 GB NVMe SSD (4 x PCIe Gen 3) o 512 GB NVMe SSD de alta velocidad (4 x PCIe Gen 3) |
| controls | 2 sticks, D-pad, triggers, standard and face buttons, 4 grip buttons, 2 trackpads, HD haptic feedback |
| Expansion | Micro SD card and USB Type C connector with support for DisplayPort 1.4. Up to 4K at 120Hz or 8K at 60Hz |
| Battery | A 40 Wh battery that provides 2 to 8 hours of play |
| Measurements and weight | 298 mm x 117 mm x 49 mm. 669 gramos |
| Price | From 419 euros |
| Launch | December |
have been put up for sale three different models.
All three include the same hardware, except for storage and display:
- 64 GB eMMC (PCIe Gen 2 x1) : 419 euros
- 256 GB NVMe SSD (4 x PCIe Gen 3): 549 euros
- 512 GB high-speed NVMe SSD (4 x PCIe Gen 3), and anti-glare screen: 679 euros
A few months ago it seemed expensive to us, seeing that the Switch costs around 300 euros. But if we take into account the current price of gaming graphics cards, it’s basically a bargain…
It may become the entry-level gaming PC for many gamers as they wait for graphics cards to stop being hijacked by crypto miners and speculators.
Reference-computerhoy.com
