Valve Responds To ‘Switch Vs Steam Deck’ Comparisons, Insists It’s “Going After” A Different Audience

Following the reveal of the Change OLED earlier this month, Valve introduced its new handheld PC system, the Steam Deck.

It is drawn loads of comparisons to Nintendo’s hybrid system because of its similarities in design (and has resulted in lots of memes) and now some members of the Valve workforce have shared their very own ideas about this completely with IGN. To drive dwelling the purpose it is completely different, designer Greg Coomer reiterated how the Steam Deck was chasing a market that is already hooked up to the Steam library. Within the phrases of IGN, “high-end PC gaming”.

“We tried to make all the choices actually in Steam Deck that focused that viewers and that served the shoppers that have been already having an excellent time interacting with the video games which are on that platform, on our platform. That basically was how we have been making our selections…We have ended up with a tool that cosmetically shares some traits with a Change, however that simply was… it is form of an artifact of how we have proceeded down the design path.”

Programmer Pierre-Loup Griffais bolstered how the main target was on enhancing participant engagement with Valve’s Steam library, and the Valve co-founder Gabe Newell believes customers will instantly know if the Steam Deck is correct for them (or if they need to stick to the Nintendo Change), from the second they decide it up:

“So I believe Nintendo does a fantastic job concentrating on the viewers they do with the content material that they’ve. And that is going to be completely different. Like whenever you decide this [Steam Deck] up, it feels far more just like the ergonomics for anyone who’s used to enjoying with an costly sport controller, proper? As a result of it is greater and it is bulkier than a Change. And if we’re proper, that is the proper trade-off to be making for the viewers that we’re going after.

“Let me put it this manner… When you’re a gamer, and also you decide up a Change, and also you decide up one in all these, you are going to know which one is best for you, proper? And you are going to realize it inside 10 seconds.”

What are your ideas concerning the Steam Deck at this stage? Do you suppose you are a part of Valve’s target market? Inform us beneath.