Why gabe made steam

That's the fundamental thing that needed — and it had to be open. I want to pick this up and says, 'oh, it all works. It's all fast. With regard to handheld gaming in particular, Newell clearly sees Steam Deck's openness as an improvement: "I mean, there've been attempts to provide mobile gaming platforms for a really long time.

And for me, as somebody who's used to sort of high-end desktop, PC gaming and console gaming, that always felt like they were compromises. But I think they are. Announced earlier this month , Steam Deck is a handheld gaming PC in the truest sense — it has the body of a console, but the ability for full customisation , including uninstalling the operating system.

With that said, the included SteamOS attempts to meld the two worlds of console and PC , so you hopefully won't feel too much of a need to go uninstalling it for something else. Follow him on Twitter. Have a tip for us?

Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips ign. Best chair for gaming : the top gaming chairs around Best gaming desk : the ultimate PC podiums Best PC controller : sit back, relax, and get your game on. But if Valve is looking at this to establish a product category that other manufacturers then build off, having a popular, affordable initial device is the way to go.

And I can definitely see it happening. Valve may struggle to keep up with demand, after all we are in the middle of a chip supply crisis right now, and there are a lot of AMD APUs that Microsoft and Sony want TSMC to make for their own consoles, but I'd wager there's going to be a huge backlog on that pre-order queue.

Asus has already gone all-in on gaming phones, so this doesn't feel like much of a step for it to take. But the likelihood is that both of those companies will see the limitations of the Steam Deck and want more. We've already seen Dell and Alienware has its own ideas about handheld gaming with the UFO prototype , so I can also see that given a lick of paint, SteamOS installed onto it, and it shoved out the door, again for a premium price.

Whether any other PC manufacturer is willing to go for the same sort of "painful" pricing Valve was willing to stick to the Deck is up for debate. Given that Geoff Keighley's awards show typically takes place towards the end of the year, the timings check out too.

Of course, none of this has been confrimed. This isn't the first time we've seen grumblings of Steam arriving on a console platform, either. Way back in , Valve made a few comments about how Steam would work via the PS3 for Portal 2 — and all of this, of course, amounted to little more than having to log in with your Steam account on PS3 to play Portal 2. Outriders is getting a big free update, and we're going to see it on Monday.

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