Valve’s Steam Deck handheld is like a Nintendo Switch built by PC nerds

Here’s hoping it does better than Steam Machines did.

The rumors were true. Valve officially pulled the curtain back on the Steam Deck on Thursday—a $399 gaming handheld designed to bring your Steam gaming library to the palms of your hands, powered by AMD hardware and Valve’s own Linux-based SteamOS operating system. Preorders open July 16, with shipments starting in December.

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