{"id":2229,"date":"2021-07-20T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/steam-deck-is-it-the-nintendo-switch-for-nerds\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:44:58","slug":"steam-deck-is-it-the-nintendo-switch-for-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/steam-deck-is-it-the-nintendo-switch-for-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Deck: is it the Nintendo Switch for nerds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s newly announced handheld console promises to put the latest PC games in your pocket. But do they belong there?<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Valve has done it again. The company that surprised everyone by pivoting from game developer to digital shopkeeper with the launch of Steam, then leapt into virtual reality with the HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets, is now taking on Nintendo with a powerful handheld games console.<\/p>\n<p>Announced on 16 July and due to launch in December, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steamdeck.com\/en\/\">Steam Deck<\/a> features a 7in LCD touchscreen, an array of analogue and touch-pad controls, a gyroscope for motion detection, wifi connectivity and a base station so it can be hooked up to a monitor. Tech-wise, it\u2019s built around a custom Zen 2 AMD processor, AMD RDNA 2 GPU and 16GB of memory. In a recent deep dive on the machine\u2019s specs, Eurogamer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2021-valve-steam-deck-spec-analysis\">found it compared<\/a> to the Xbox Series S console in terms of performance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/jul\/20\/steam-deck-valve-nintendo-switch-for-nerds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8a2030a8b60d1263543b550fbe4d86d80cbc9a67\/0_56_1200_720\/master\/1200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bb1127d145a28b3325dd46222f76dc91\" title=\"Steam Deck: is it the Nintendo Switch for nerds?\" \/>Valve\u2019s newly announced handheld console promises to put the latest PC games in your pocket. But do they belong there?<br \/>\nIt looks like Valve has done it again. The company that surprised everyone by pivoting from game developer to digital shopkeeper with the launch of Steam, then leapt into virtual reality with the HTC Vive and Valve Index headsets, is now taking on Nintendo with a powerful handheld games console.<br \/>\nAnnounced on 16 July and due to launch in December, the Steam Deck features a 7in LCD touchscreen, an array of analogue and touch-pad controls, a gyroscope for motion detection, wifi connectivity and a base station so it can be hooked up to a monitor. Tech-wise, it\u2019s built around a custom Zen 2 AMD processor, AMD RDNA 2 GPU and 16GB of memory. In a recent deep dive on the machine\u2019s specs, Eurogamer found it compared to the Xbox Series S console in terms of performance. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve\u2019s newly announced handheld console promises to put the latest PC games in your pocket. But do they belong there? It looks like Valve has done it again. The company that surprised everyone by pivoting from game developer to digital shopkeeper with the launch of Steam, then leapt into virtual reality with the HTC Vive &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/20\/steam-deck-is-it-the-nintendo-switch-for-nerds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steam Deck: is it the Nintendo Switch for nerds?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}