For better and worse, the Steam Deck is a PC Surely, I thought, not everything would work. I expect big-budget games, including ones published by Valve, to run smoothly, but what about everything else? So for the past two weeks, I’ve put the Steam Deck through a gauntlet of games spanning the past three decades. And though I love PC gaming, I associate it with a reliable pulse of little frustrations. Everything played without a fuss, just as I’d expect from any traditional portable game console.īut the Steam Deck isn’t quite a portable game console - it’s a portable gaming PC. Classic point-and-click adventure games for the Gen X set! A forgotten mid-2000s indie gem! Elden Ring! In my first hours with the portable, I opened my Steam library and loaded a trio of games I’d most wanted to play on a handheld: Half-Life 2, Nier: Automata, and the recent Vampire Survivors. I understand how hyperbolic that sounds, but I can’t overstate the scope of video games immediately available on Steam Deck on day one.
The result is the best launch lineup in the history of game consoles. So a couple of weeks ago, when the Steam Deck appeared on my doorstep, one question loomed above all others: Could a company that has never before released a game console or computer compete against the most established hardware maker in games and, arguably, its best device? Does the Steam Deck have a legitimate chance in the Age of Switch? Could it really be perfect? The Steam Deck has the greatest launch lineup ever
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