Even better, for me (and I suspect a lot of other people) it has reinvigorated my appreciation for the wide world of PC gaming.Steam, the world’s most popular PC gaming client, community, and store, will shut its doors to Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users next year. With the Steam Deck, the company finally has a genuine hardware hit on its hands. Valve's previous hardware initiatives, including the Steam Machine and Steam Controller, never really got out of the gate. So if you're interested in buying a Steam Deck for around $500 - I recommend the middle model with 256GB and adding your own microSD card for additional storage - it's a safe bet to invest now without too much upgrade anxiety. I don't have any specific insight, but I suspect it's at least a year or more away. There's no real idea of when that might happen, but the Steam Deck is enough of a hit that a new version is almost guaranteed.
The biggest hurdle the Steam Deck faces is that its AMD CPU and GPU aren't getting any younger, and more powerful components - along with design and ergonomic improvements, a better screen and improved battery life - are on everyone's must-have list for a Steam Deck 2. Yes, this is a Steam-based product, but PC gamers expect to be able to play games from multiple sources, and they're right to do so. Same goes for adding games from other PC gaming storefronts like GOG and the Epic Game Store.
Getting access to games outside of the Steam ecosystem, including cloud streaming games, remains a hassle - you have to install Microsoft Edge via the Linux-based desktop mode and do a bunch of extra setup from there. Watch this: Steam Deck Mostly Nails Handheld PC Gaming Valve has gotten better at figuring out which games will work well on the Steam Deck and making that information available to gamers, plus there's a lot of community suggestions that go beyond the official "great for Steam Deck" tag. Other games that are a natural for Steam Deck include Elden Ring, No Man's Sky (despite a bug that wiped my saved progress), Vampire Survivors and The Witcher 3. Games that have worked really well for me include Hard West 2, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection and Baldur's Gate 3. Recently, I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy on the Steam Deck, where it runs great (and better than a promised eventual Nintendo Switch version ever will) and Marvel's Midnight Suns, which took a couple of months to get properly patched for Steam Deck. It's the ability to play PC games, from big new releases to cult indie games, with the convenience of a handheld. The actual hardware, frankly a bit on the underpowered side for a budget gaming PC, isn't the big selling point.
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