So not only can players download games like Doom Eternal, Death Stranding, or Hades, they can chat with Steam friends and trawl through Steam’s community fora. A user’s existing Steam library will live on it, basically immediately upon logging in, because it operates off a modified SteamOS. And thanks to its Cloud saving feature, players can easily pick up game save files between their Steam Deck and PC. It can be connected to a monitor and other gaming peripherals, such as a keyboard and mouse (a dock contains ports for these, plus Ethernet). Users can install and operate PC software on it, like a web browser, other game stores- including the Epic Games Store-and video-streaming services. The Steam Deck’s big pitch is on-the-go, faithful PC gaming, but it’s taking an even bigger swing: It’s basically a handheld PC.

It’s due out December 2021 and has models priced at $399, $529 and $649-scaled by storage and processing speed. Sick of waiting for your favorite PC games to come to Switch? Valve today unveiled its rumored Steam Deck, a handheld machine for PC gaming.

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