No, Steam Deck won’t be limited to 30Hz – that’s just a targeted minimum

A few days ago, Valve claimed its upcoming Steam Deck console could handle any game you could throw at it, with the info coming via a tech breakdown in an interview with IGN.

Today, one of the Valve employees that conducted the interview, developer Pierre-Loup Griffais, has tweeted a clarification of one of the key points of concern raised in the video – a capped refresh rate of 30Hz.

Griffais has made it clear that the “30Hz target” that he mentioned in the video isn’t an upper limit for the refresh rate of games running on the Steam Deck, but rather an ‘acceptable’ minimum goal.

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