Developed masterpieces such as “Trembling Time and Space” and “Absolute Force”, and Valve of the online game platform Steam, announced the first handheld console Steam Deck in July last year. It was originally scheduled to be listed in December last year, but due to the shortage of chips, it was announced at the end of the year. Delayed by two months, Valve said yesterday that Steam Deck will be available at the end of February this year as scheduled.
Steam Deck is Valve’s first handheld console, using TSMC’s 7nm process AMD Zen2 micro-architecture processor, with 4 cores and 8 threads, frequency 2.4 ~ 3.5 GHz, the operating system is Valve, with Arch Linux and KDE Plasma 5 as the Based on SteamOS 3.0 developed.
When it was published last July, Valve announced that Steam Deck will be divided into Base, Mid and High three specification levels, priced at $399, $529 and $649 respectively, with 64GB, 256GB and 512GB of internal hard drive space, and all models have a built-in 7-inch , 720P LCD screen with a resolution of 1280X800, and can support 8K 60Hz and 4K 120Hz external monitors.
As a direct competitor of Switch, the number and quality of games will be the key. Therefore, Valve has distributed hundreds of Steam Decks to various game manufacturers and developers for testing since December last year. Games that pass the platform conversion test, There will be a green logo for “support” Steam Deck on the Steam platform, and many famous titles are currently being tested.
However, Valve has not yet released any pictures or price information about the Steam Deck dedicated external screen adapter. It is speculated that the relevant information may be announced before the official launch of the host at the end of February.
Happy January! We have a small update for you today – tl;dr – we’re still on track to ship in February.
Check it out here: https://t.co/pQXC101JCV
— Steam Deck (@OnDeck) January 13, 2022
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