Steam Deck will be three months available on the market at the end of May, although on a limited basis. We can’t go to a store to pick one up, because production is still starting, but we can at least sign up for their huge waiting list in the hope that it will end up arriving in a few months. Even so, Valve is taking advantage of the fact that the machine is already in the hands of its first owners to polish possible defects that were not considered during development.
Custom performance per game?
That is exactly what Valve has thought could come in handy: tell each game how much power the console is going to use depending on what it requires to function optimally, that is, with good graphic quality, without interruptions and without It eats up all the battery power. It is clear that it is not the same to launch a Death Stranding than a title from a decade ago, so now we will have the opportunity to choose how we want the Steam Deck to behave.
This update that is coming to those who have one of these laptops allows us to create a performance profile of a game so that, every time we start it, it is not necessary to repeat the steps over and over again within the menu Of configuration. In this way, these presets are stored and are practically activated by default when starting the title to which they are linked.
And what parameters does this performance profile contemplate? Well, you can get an idea. It’s kind of like going into the video settings menu of the game and adjusting the frame rate per second, the level of CPU usage, the consumption, etc., that is, you will have to choose between a good performance of frames per second or the quality of the image that, to see on a 720p panel, we already warned you that you won’t need too much to hit it and make it look great.
on the right line
Valve seems to have been right with the concept of Steam Deck and, above all, with its price. In recent weeks, many brands that manufacture PC-based gaming laptops are beginning to move due to the success of Valve’s bet. In fact, it has become the best mobile gaming alternative for computer games due to its extraordinary performance, game playback quality and, above all, price.
We are talking about the fact that Steam Deck has three options in the price ranges of 419, 549 and 679 euros when the competition usually moves in a much larger segment, close to 800 or more euros. That is why the success of Gabe Newell’s could be bringing common gamers a little closer to these alternatives that do not force them to be screwed to the computer chair, and make it easier for them to have their entire library and games ready to be enjoyed anywhere.
At the moment, yes, the waiting list to acquire one of these Steam Decks is still active .
