After a postponement, Valve's new handheld, Steam Deck, confirmed that it will be officially launched on February 25 this year (2022). Recently, relevant professional media and players, such as: Gamers Nexus, The Phawx, etc., have been publicly reviewed for Steam Deck. They have made a detailed evaluation of the machine's game performance, loading speed, endurance, size and feel, etc., and the doctor has summarized and sorted it out after reading it, and shared it with you today.
Dr. Here first explain: the above professional media and players of the preemptive review is usually with Valve has a cooperation, the test of the game includes: "Control "Street Fighter 5", "Death Cell", "Devil May Cry 5", "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5" and so on, personally speculate that these games are better optimized on steam Deck products, so the relevant evaluation results have a certain reference, but does not mean that all Steam games can have good results.
In terms of game performance, in the case of 800p resolution, Steam Deck runs the above games, it is very smooth, and the overall effect is much better than many previous handhelds equipped with Windows systems! Depending on the size of the game and the performance, the Steam Deck can stabilize at 30FPS or 60FPS. If your favorite games are already on the steam Deck compatible optimization list, then you don't have to worry about how your product will perform.
In terms of loading speed, there were many players who were worried about the performance of the Micro SD card before, and this time the professional media and players said that there was no problem. Even on the cheapest Steam Deck model (the $399 base model), the Micro SD card loads at about the same speed as the built-in SSD, and individual games, such as Portal 2, Ghostwalker, etc., may be about 10 seconds slower! This time is acceptable to everyone.
In terms of endurance, the official website says 2-8 hours, which is actually related to many elements. Professional media and players have pointed out that limiting the number of frames is very important, for example: "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5" is limited to about 4 hours of continuous play at 30FPS, while 60FPS can only last about 2 hours; indie games and some old products can easily last 4-6 hours or more.
In terms of size, professional media and players shared a comparison of the Steam Deck and a variety of handhelds, so that everyone can more intuitively understand the actual size of the game console, such as: Steam Deck is a lot longer than the Switch OLED published last year, and it is thicker; Steam Deck is the size of two PSP (PlayStation Portable) or PSVITA (PlayStation Vita).
Steam Deck is a portable PC console that allows players to play Steam games anytime, anywhere, meeting the needs of many people. In addition, as more console games are ported to pc (Steam), Steam Deck is becoming more and more attractive, and Dr. Valve thinks it is a good move at the right time. In fact, everyone does not have to hesitate to start now, because the current inventory seems to have been robbed, waiting for the next batch of goods!