Valve marks Steam Deck's first month with a round-up of upcoming changes and improvements
It’s been a month since Valve started shipping its sought-after handheld system, Steam Deck, and to celebrate, the company wants you to know exactly how far the system – and its games – have come, including updates on its Deck Verified program and ongoing efforts with Microsoft to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to the mobile platform, too.
“We started shipping Steam Deck just one month ago, and it’s been a huge thrill seeing it out in the wild in players’ hands,” Valve explained in a new blog. An accompanying video can be viewed below, too:
“One of our favourite things about that is finally getting to hear from you about your experience using Steam Deck. This first month has given us a chance to start collecting your feedback as we continue our work to make Deck better in the months and years to come.”
The update confirmed that now over 2000 games have been checked and confirmed as Deck Verified or Playable, with Valve promising that it’s “going to continue charging through the Steam catalogue” whilst “listening carefully to customer feedback in this space[…] to make sure the Deck Verified program is doing its job”.
The team is also working to improve the Steam Store and make it “more responsive and snappier”, whilst the fight to get anti-cheat technology onto the Deck – making more titles available – continues, too.
The update also refers to recent changes to a new Microsoft Edge for Linux beta that now permits the browser to run Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass games on Steam Deck, and also touched on new “ways to improve battery life for Steam Deck”.
