Valve is shipping Steam Deck dev kits to developers right now

Valve Steam Deck dev kits ready to be shipped to developers

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Steam Deck dev kits are making it out to developers, Valve has inveterate. IT won't be until December when we get our mitts on the handheld atomic number 3 customers, but in the meantime in that location's work to be done to bring fort heaps of games playing their best on the portable PC.

"All packaged up and make for devs!" An update on Steam from Valve says. "This is one of the limited batches of Steam Deck dev-kits gallery unstylish today for partners to test their games. These engineering verification test builds allow us to link developers with units that are functionally identical to what will ship to you."

Here are extraordinary snaps of the highly desirable dev-kits all ready to go. I have to say the handheld obstructed into a mechanical keyboard is quite an exciting prospect, even if a TKL board looks comedically bigger than the hand-held itself.

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The hardware component of the Steam Deck is basically signed-murder at this power point with the official specs list, but forward of the Steam Deck's launch Valve has a deal of work to do allay on the drivers and on its Windows compatibility bed for Linux, Proton.

Proton is the name of the game for the Steam Deck of cards, and information technology needs to work flawlessly to allow you to pick up and play any game on your Linux-high-powered Steam clean Deck equally if it were running Windows natively. Valve says that will happen by launch, and that IT considers a game non running on Proton to be "a bug".

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