On December 3, 2021 Valve showed the Steam Deck packaging - it says in Russian that it can be played "on the subway", "on dacha ”,“ on the tree ”and“ in the toilet. ”
Valve explained that the current DV-sample is the final prototype that the company is now sending to the developers. There will still be some changes to it during the launch of mass production, but the packaging will remain the same - these are the boxes that the first owners of the Steam Deck will receive in February.
Valve showed what the case for Steam Deck looks like in versions with 64GB and 256GB storage.
Steam Deck Developer Kit - DV Sample for Testing.
On July 15, 2021 Valve unveiled a compact game console Steam Deck that runs all games from the Steam library. The box runs on a specially adapted version of SteamOS 3.0, which is based on Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop. The console is also specially designed to display all games from the Steam library at 800p at 30 frames per second. Three versions of Steam Deck with 64/256 / 512GB drives will sell for $ 399 / $ 529 / $ 649, respectively. All versions of the Steam Deck console have an M.2 2230 SSD slot, but Valve advises against upgrading.
Steam Deck is available for booking in some countries, Russia is not yet listed.
In Valve started accepting requests for Steam Deck devkits in early September.
On October 6, Valve published a Steam Deck breakdown. There you can change the control keys (sticks) and the internal storage.
In November, Valve warned of a delay in the release of its Steam Deck game console to the market for at least another two months. The manufacturer cited problems with the supply of device components as the reasons for the shortage of the required materials and semiconductors. Valve also talked about the AMD chip in Steam Deck and the speed of the console on different drives
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