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Source| Jiguo Editorial Department
At the beginning of this month, players who pay attention to the single-player game circle should have been swept by such an anecdote - the head of the V society, Gabe Newell, nicknamed "G Fat", incarnated as a courier, personally delivered to the users who ordered the Steam Deck handheld. #数码科技要闻 #
These lucky people not only got a limited edition of autographs, but also G Fat also very intimately "handily" helped them upgrade the configuration.
To know that Steam Deck as a new explosive handheld, since its release for a long time in a state of out-of-stock, has become the king of countless game media "enough to shake the status of NS", can preempt who does not envy?
Not only that, foreign netizens also revealed that these Steam Decks delivered by G Fat are free, and the final payment will be refunded, if you recognized G Fat on the road at that time, he would also send you a one by calling his name, so that everyone called the contemporary "Santa Claus" coming!
Nowadays, a considerable number of people have got this "net red machine", and its experience and performance have been disclosed one after another, and detailed evaluations have been made on the machine's game performance, loading speed, endurance, size and feel, and so on.
So as the king of the future handheld market, can Steam Deck play in the end?
According to official publicity, Steam Deck runs the latest current AAA games smoothly, can be played for a long time, provides high-fidelity audio, and fast storage.
At the same time, Valve released a test page, players only need to log in to their account to see the compatibility of Steam Deck for the games in the library.
The game's Steam Deck compatibility is divided into 4 categories: "Verified", "Playable", "Not Supported" and "Unknown".
Among them, the "playable" level is lower than that of "verified", which requires some manual adjustments for the user to play, and the fluency is not perfectly guaranteed. So, we're mainly going to see if the game we want to play on Steam Deck is "verified."
According to Polygon, more than 150 games were officially "Verified" by Valve in a week, bringing the total to 426.
Games like the well-known Control, Street Fighter 5, Dead Cell, Devil May Cry 5, Andrea: Horizon 5 and other games are available in Steam Deck, as well as the recent hit Eldon's Ring of Law.
Willing players can also install the Windows operating system, use game stores such as itch.io, or use subscription services such as Game Pass, or even use open source emulators.
This also means that on Windows, Steam Deck can install an emulator to play platform masterpieces such as Switch's Zelda Breath of the Wild and Xenoblade.
Overall, Steam Deck deserves to have the strongest starting lineup of any console in history.
In terms of game performance, in the case of 800p resolution, Steam Deck runs the "Street Fighter 5", "Dead Cell", "Devil May Cry 5" games, are very smooth, the overall effect is much smoother than many previous handhelds equipped with Windows system.
Depending on the size of the game and the performance, the Steam Deck can stabilize at 30FPS or 60FPS. If your favorite game is already on the steam Deck compatible optimization list, you don't have to worry about how it will perform.
IGN also exposed a real demonstration of playing "Elden's Ring of Law" on steam Deck, although it was run offline, using the default settings of the handheld, but the frame rate was basically maintained at about 45 frames during the game running time, but occasionally dropped frames and fell below 30 frames.
As mentioned earlier, Valve also launched a Windows 10 driver for the Steam Deck handheld, but after actual testing, it was found that Win10 games did not perform as well as SteamOS.
Incidentally, Steam Deck can only run Windows 10 systems at this time and does not support dual startup. This means that if you install Windows, then it's the only system you can use unless you uninstall it.
YouTube channel LinusTechTips produced a test video that compared the Win10 system and Steam OS's performance on Steam Deck by running three games, Killer 3, Doom: Eternity, and Eldon's Ring of Law.
Tests have shown that steamos has a higher frame rate than Windows 10 for all three games. Killer 3 averages 34 frames under SteamOS and 19 frames on Windows 10.
Doom: Eternity averaged 60 frames on SteamOS and 47 frames on Windows 10.
Eldon's Ring of Law averaged 37 frames under SteamOS and 30 frames on Windows 10.
As for the 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 for the cheapest Steam Deck models, the loading speed of micro SD cards is similar to that of built-in SSDs, and individual games, such as Portal 2, Ghostwalker, etc., may be slower by about 10 seconds, which is acceptable to everyone.
In addition to the performance of the game, the current use of Steam Deck feedback, but also received a lot of praise.
It's about 298mm wide and weighs about 669 grams, which is lighter than many thin and light laptops, but it still feels great in the hand, not to mention that this handheld is equipped with a 7-inch screen.
At the same time, the screen display is also very fine, steam Deck resolution is 1280x800, the picture quality is enough for ordinary users.
However, Steam Deck is still quite discouraged from girls, comparing the parameters of the Switch can know this, the original Switch is 400 grams, the OLED version is 420 grams, and the Lite version is only 275 grams.
However, Steam Deck is obviously different from the user group targeted by Switch, the former is mainly for those who want to play deep masterpieces on handhelds, these players want to play such a masterpiece as "God of War 4" before, they have to open a computer or open a console and TV, cutting off the possibility of you playing outdoors.
And according to the player experience, its joystick is far superior to the Switch's joystick, even better than Hori's plus-sized Joy-Con.
In addition, the four back keys also provide a very high degree of customization space, and it can be set up as long as you press the Steam button, which is very convenient.
Steam Deck's speakers are also loud and clear, and Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth handles can be easily matched without the need for additional adapters.
In terms of battery life, the performance of the Steam Deck is quite decent. Although the official statement is 2-8 hours, the actual battery life will be affected by many operational factors.
Many players have pointed out that limiting the number of frames is the most important point affecting the battery life, such as: "Forza Motorsport: Horizon 5" is limited to about 4 hours of continuous play at 30FPS, while the state of 60FPS can only last about 2 hours, and when playing some small games and some old games, it can last for 4-6 hours or even higher.
In the test video of foreign netizen Pawax, the frame rate of Steam Deck running "Forza Horizon 5" far exceeds that of similar PC handhelds, and the actual endurance of "Devil May Cry 5" can reach 2 hours, which is still good overall.
Finally, the price, the Steam Deck starts at $399 (about 2539 yuan), which is quite competitive among similar products.
If you want to get started, users only need to pay a reservation fee on the official website. However, only players located in the United States, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom can currently book. If domestic players want to book, they must either buy on behalf of others, or have a Steam U.S. account that has been spent before June 30 this year, and then pay a deposit on the line, and one account is limited to one.
However, given that the Steam Deck configuration is high enough and the price is low enough, it has attracted the attention of scalpers early, according to the second-hand trading platform, the 512GB handheld price has exceeded 10,000, and the delivery date is a few months later than the official.
This price, advise everyone or wait any longer...
There is also sad news that on March 8, 2022, Valve updated the product page of Steam Deck and announced that any scheduled orders will not be officially ordered after the third quarter of this year.
Overall, steam Deck is a portable PC console that satisfies the needs of many people by allowing players to play Steam games anytime, anywhere.
In addition, as more and more console games are ported to the PC platform, the advantages of Steam Deck are becoming more and more obvious. However, the reservation is so troublesome and the wait is so long, domestic players still have to wait and see.