Steam Deck
In the future, Steam Deck could arrive in different colors. To say it was Greg Coomer of Valve, who however tied the possibility to the success of the hybrid between a PC and a portable console. The essence is that if Steam Deck takes hold as Half-Life's company hopes, then the offer will expand.Steam Deck will be launched in December in three versions different for hardware features, but identical from the point of view of the design and coloring. Touching the topic in an interview with PC Gamer, Tucker Spofford and Greg Coomer, the console's designers, revealed that the issue of colors has been the subject of a strong internal debate and that many think it is a good idea to have one. alternatives.
Coomer has admitted that the choice to launch Steam Deck in a single color was essentially dictated by logistics, because managing too many SKUs on the market from the beginning could have created more than a few complications. However, if the product turns out to be the success Valve hoped for, then it will be reconsidered in the future.
Actually Coomer has talked about many opportunities for the future, so there aren't just new colors in the pipeline. . As mentioned, everything will depend on Steam Deck sales. After all, it is known that Valve does not want to stop at a single console, but has great ambitions in the hardware field. There is even talk of using the Steam Deck as the basis for an Oculus Quest-style portable VR headset.
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Valve is working with AMD to make the Steam Deck Windows 11-ready
© Photo by Sean Hollister / The VergeValve is aiming to make its Steam Deck handheld gaming PC ready for Windows 11. While we’ve known for weeks that the Steam Deck can run Windows, it wasn’t clear how well this would be supported by Valve, or whether an option for a Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) would be enabled to get Windows 11 on the Steam Deck.
Now, Valve has confirmed it has been heavily focused on Windows support. “There’s work looking at TPM just now,” says Greg Coomer, a Valve Steam Deck designer, in an interview with PC Gamer. “We’ve focused so much on Windows 10, so far, that we haven’t really gotten that far into it. Our expectation is that we can meet that.”
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Valve is working with AMD to make sure that TPM is supported at a BIOS level, and that the Steam Deck is ready for Windows 11. “So there’s nothing to indicate to us yet that there’ll be any issues with Windows 11,” explains Coomer.
That sounds encouraging for the ability to install Windows 11 on the Steam Deck once it launches later this year. While the handheld device will ship with SteamOS, a custom version of Linux, Valve will support Windows installations.
So why would you want Windows on the Steam Deck? Valve is still working on getting games with anti-cheat to run out of the box on this handheld, and it’s not guaranteed that titles like Apex Legends, Destiny 2, PUBG, Fortnite, and Gears 5 will work without Windows. “We’re working with BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat to get support for Proton ahead of launch,” says Valve.
The Steam Deck uses Valve’s Proton software to get a lot of officially unsupported Windows games to run on the device, but anti-cheat has been the biggest headache for Proton in recent years. Windows support avoids the obvious compatibility issues here, but it will bring with it an interface that isn’t tailored to a 7-inch screen, and lots of unknowns until we see just how well the OS works on the Steam Deck.