IT House January 14 news, Valve V company launched the Steam Deck game handheld was originally scheduled to be released in late 2021, but due to the shortage of raw materials, the official postponement of the date to 2022. Just when players were worried about another product extension, V said that Steam Deck was expected to launch on time by the end of February 2022.
At present, there are development models launched to test users, and the packaging of the products is basically confirmed. V said that the product team has been working hard since the end of the Christmas + New Year's Day holiday, and today announced some of the latest developments.
Despite the covid-19 pandemic around the world, as well as shipping, chip shortages, and other issues, the team has begun to address these issues, and the product is expected to go on sale as scheduled.
IT House learned that the Steam Deck handheld has a built-in AMD custom APU, the CPU has 4 cores and 18 threads, and the GPU is RNDA 2 architecture, with 8CU and a frequency of up to 1.6GHz. The product has 16GB of built-in shared memory, and the 64GB base version is priced at 2590 yuan, and also offers the option of larger capacity.
V also said that the Steam Deck Verified certification program is underway to ensure that the games on the Steam platform can be compatible with the handheld. This certification will check the input information, display effect, system compatibility, etc. In order to ensure that game developers can smoothly make the game compatible with Steam Deck, V provides a large number of development kits.