Gabe Newell Hand-Delivers the First Steam Decks - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2022 / 1,636 Views
Valve president Gabe Newell in a new video was shown hand-delivering Steam Deck reservation holders in the first batch who live near Valve. Before delivering them personally, Newell is shown signing the case for the Steam Deck.
Newell in a recent interview was asked if he had any interest in adding a subscription service similar to Xbox Game Pass on Steam and he said no. However, he is willing to work with Microsoft to add Game Pass on Steam.
View the video of Newell hand-delivering Steam Decks below:
The Steam Deck is an all-in-one portable PC gaming device with a price starting at $399 and going up to $649.
The $399 starting price is for the model with 64GB eMMC internal storage. The $529 model comes with 256GB NVMe SSD internal storage, while the $649 model comes with 512GB NVMe SSD internal storage.
The Steam Deck runs on an AMD APU. The CPU is a Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32), while the GPU has 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32). The APU uses 4-15W. The handheld also comes with 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM (5500 MT/s).
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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lol, good one!
that would be awesome to see happen
Very Cool!
£1000+ on ebay. people need to stop feeding scalpers
The day a multi-Billionaire and a industry leader arrives at your doorstep.. this is awesome.
Anyone here with a steam deck
How are you finding it so far?
Must admit, I am kinda curious
We have a dedicated thread also waiting for people's general impressions: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/
This makes me feel like Valve is serious about the Deck. I think Switch has lit a fire under their ass. Maybe indie sales on Switch had started to cut into Valve indie sales?
Good! Competition is a good thing!
I don't think the Switch and the Steam Deck compete even tho they are similar devices. They both offer very different libraries and if anything, the Deck would compete more with the Series X and PS5 since it will be playing majority of both systems library on the Go. Also if Valve thought the Switch was a competitor, they wouldn't be placing their newly release of Portal Companion collection on it. Dunno, just my opinion.
Yeah, I also don't think Steamdeck and Switch are direct competitors (but you know, there are always only so much customer dollars). But I think it is great to have more entertainment options for customers and I assume also Valve will evolve their device to meet feedback. What Nintendo will do for Switch successor is completely up in the air, for all I know they could do VR next. Nintendo is so unpredictable.
Meanwhile, another more stickily billionaire CEO is too busy throwing childish pot-shots on twitter, lol.
Good on you tech santa.
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