Steam Deck, the Steam Deck, which has attracted much attention since its launch, was finally officially launched last Saturday (February 26).
Although the Steam Deck is a bit thick as a "handheld", being able to play games in the Steam game library anytime, anywhere is still very attractive to most PC genuine players.
So, as a "precedent in form, game library is guaranteed", can the Steam game handheld reverse drive the second spring of PC games?
Handheld or PC
In fact, although the Steam Deck is a handheld handheld, it is still fundamentally different from the "Win handheld" currently on the market.
Steam Deck is a standalone gaming handheld device, and the other "Win handhelds" currently on the market are essentially a PC with a gamepad and a reduction.
At this stage, the Win handheld on the market has no own game library, so it has to rely on the open platform of Windows. The core hardware used is also the purchased public version.
The Steam handheld, although it seems to use the games in the Steam game library, is still essentially a standalone game console device. On the core hardware, amD cooperates to customize the chip, and the system does not use Windows, but adopts a customized Steam OS system.
Although according to the V Society, developers under the Steam OS system can run most of the brush games without porting the game, from the current compatibility certification of the adapted games launched by the V Society on the handheld, it is not excluded that some games cannot be played on the handheld.
Therefore, from the perspective of the device itself, the launch of a handheld and the drive of PC game sales do not seem to have much to do with it. Although Steam is indeed a widely influential gaming platform on the PC side, there are still a large number of other areas compared to the entire PC game market.
Consolidate and expand
In fact, this isn't the first time V has launched gaming hardware. As early as 2013, V-Society launched the Steam Controller controller.
Although the design was later widely criticized and finally redesigned until it was officially released in 2015, despite the poor follow-up response and dismal departure, the ambition of the V Society can still be seen from this.
In order to allow keyboard and mouse players to operate accurately on the gamepad, the V Society has added extremely detailed settings to it, and even can directly enter text content on the controller instead of the keyboard.
The emergence of such hardware also seems to show that the V Society is not willing to just be a game platform attached to the PC, but hopes to be able to become its own faction, and even break the wrist with the powerful Imperial Sanjia of software and hardware.
The launch of the Steam Deck seems to confirm this speculation.
The road ahead is bright or difficult
Game consoles have always been giant games, so can Steam Deck snow the shame of its own hardware and gain a foothold on the game console hardware platform?
Judging from the success of the Nintendo Switch and the continued growth of gaming phones, the market for handheld mobile gaming devices has a brighter future. And in addition to Switch, only Steam Deck currently has the same form and game library lineup size.
However, in the current situation a few days after its release, steam Deck will still face a series of potential mistakes that "newbies" may make - such as software bugs that make the joystick drift and spit on the actual volume.
What follows up remains to be seen.
However, despite this, steam handhelds still need to consolidate their ecological position on PCs for a long time. With the general trend of "all-platform" games, the PC game market will continue to benefit from it in the future.