There were rumors about a hand held gaming PC that will be released by Valve. Now, that device was just announced. They call it Steam Deck.
Steam Deck features a 7-inch touch-enabled HD+ LCD with a 60Hz refresh rate, and is powered by a custom AMD APU that utilizes a 4-core 8-thread CPU and a GPU that packs 8 RDNA compute units. You also get 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and a choice of either 64GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage. The latter two boasts NVMe SSDs, and all three will support a microSD card.
Like the handheld from another brand, which recently had quite an underwhelming new variant, this one can also be used with an external display, a mouse, and a keyboard. Oh, and it’s got Bluetooth. There will be an official dock, but you can also use any third-party USB-C adapter.
As for the controls, you get capacitive sticks with a small trackpad below, as well as four extra buttons at the back that you can remap depending on the game you’re playing.
For the price, it’s $399 for the 64GB variant, then it’s $529 and $649 for the 256GB and 512GB models, respectively. It is set to launch some time this year, and will be sold via a reservation pre-order system.
It will be interesting to see how well the Steam Deck performs, and those who want proper horsepower on a handheld, looks like the time has come. Oh, and this could also be the answer for those who were disappointed by that “upgrade.”
At the time of writing, the device isn’t available for reservation for PH. You may check out the reservation page here.
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