Valve has confirmed that the first batch of Steam Deck handheld gaming devices will ship for pre-orders by the end of February. After being announced in July 2021, the portable gaming device experienced delays and did not release in December as expected.
Now, Valve is announcing the continuation of the Steam Deck Review program, which has provided some game developers with dev kits. “Hundreds” were sent in the last month, more are expected to be sent.
The Steam Deck is a portable gaming PC designed for gamers who have access to their game library and Nintendo Switch-level portability. The device is powered by an AMD Zen quad-core processor and uses an AMD RDNA 2 architecture-based GPU with 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD.
The device has a 7-inch touchscreen with an aspect ratio of 16:10, and games optimized for Steam Deck have a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Steam Deck runs the Steam operating system Valve OS 3.0 based on Arch Linux with support for games developed for Windows.
The basic $400 version comes with 64 GB of eMMC flash, the $530 version has 256 GB of NVMe SSD. The older version, for $649, got a 512GB SSD, along with a premium anti-reflective coating.
When you pre-order now, you’ll be in line to receive your console after Q2.
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