Yes! Steam Deck owners can choose to upgrade the storage on any model by using its microSD slot.

Will the Steam Deck Have Expandable Storage? By choosing the highest-end Steam Deck, buyers will enjoy the “fastest storage” and “premium anti-glare etched glass” for the screen, as well as an exclusive carrying case, Steam Community profile bundle, and virtual keyboard theme. The most-expensive model will run buyers $649 and offers a 512GB NVMe SSD internal drive. In addition to the carrying case, this model boasts “faster storage” and an “exclusive Steam Community profile bundle.” The next-highest priced model costs $529 and trades in the eMMC drive for a 256GB NVMe SSD internal drive. The base Steam Deck model is $399, features a 64GB eMMC internal drive, and comes with a carrying case. Article taken from Steam Deck pricing starts at $399, and there are three different models available for purchase. You can buy it on Humble Store and Steam. Seems it's quite a problematic port overall, as the Steam user reviews instantly went down to Mixed (Edit: and now 'Mostly Negative'), with many people on Windows reporting problematic performance and constant crashes. Now think about people who do genuinely swap between PC and Steam Deck, practically the entire refund window gone to see if you have issues with it.įor desktop though, you can of course get much better performance and at least on the Linux side, it actually seems to run reasonably well even at 2560x1440 with FSR set to Balanced it can mostly stick around 60FPS.īoth shots were actually 60FPS, but Plasma screenshot spikes the FPS down. When you only have a 2 hour refund window on Steam, that's not good. Then it took a good 30 minutes (almost to the dot) to do the shaders even with this clearly much more powerful system.

Valve did give it a special Proton Hotfix, which doesn't seem to have done enough to make it properly playable or be something I can recommend at this time.Īs for how it runs on desktop Linux? On my Ryzen 7 5800X and NVIDIA 2080 Ti (Fedora KDE), it gives an out of date driver warning that can be ignored to begin with. YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view.

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