Valve opens up its handheld PC, discusses what it contains, why you really shouldn't be messing with its components and much more.
Valve has revealed a lot more about the Steam Deck in recent weeks, and here are 10 more things that you should know before buying the console.
Valve is actually working on a way to deal with "unowned content" and helping its partners remove builds for things like "copyright issues."
BattlEye anti-cheat has now confirmed support for Steam Deck in a recent Tweet, following in the footsteps of EasyAntiCheat.
Valve confirms in a handy FAQ that the Steam Deck can be used as a controller while playing games on PC via remote play.
A report by Tooltester reveals that Steam experiences more outages than PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on average.
Valve has seemingly sent out Steam Deck to multiple developers for testing existing games on the actual hardware.
The Operation Riptide to CS: GO will be making a load of changes to the game's economy and maps.
Interviews and streams with developers should be expected along with demos for titles like Anno: Mutationem, Tunic and Inscryption.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has had a Steam Deck for about a week, and having played the likes of Halo and Age of Empires on it, is impressed with how its running xCloud.
"If this gets off the ground the way we hope it does, there's just tons of opportunity to do that later," says designer Greg Coomer.
Valve says you shouldn't expect a boost in frame rates when playing on the Steam Deck while using its dock.
"Tthere's nothing to indicate to us yet that there'll be any issues with Windows 11," says Valve's Greg Coomer, designer of the Steam Deck.
"We wanted players to be able to change their playstyle and their world themselves, and not just having the Game Director randomise their loot or the AI," says lead game designer Brandon Yanez.
We get to see the device running everything from Control and Ori and the Will of the Wisps to DOOM Eternal and The Witcher 3.
A recent SteamDB listing for Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection claims to modernize the classic along with all of its episodes.
Valve also insists that the open nature of the platform and OS should encourage other manufacturers to make their own similar products.
Valve designer Pierre-Loup Griffais says that the 30 FPS target for the Steam Deck is "the floor" of what they will consider acceptable in games.
"If you're a gamer, and you pick up a Switch, and you pick up one of these, you're going to know which one is right for you," says Gabe Newell.
"We haven't really found something we could throw at this device that it couldn't handle," says Valve's Pierre-Loup Griffais.
