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However, their focus was on the unit's performance Newell stated, 'But the first thing was the performance and the experience, was the biggest and most fundamental constraint that was driving this.' Newell recognized that the base pricing was somewhat lower than expected and 'painful', but necessary to meet the expectation of gamers that would want the Deck. And as a game developer, it's the mobile device I've always wanted for our partners.' According to Newell, they wanted to be 'very aggressive' on the release and pricing strategy as they considered the mobile market as their primary competitor for the Deck. Valve's CEO, Gabe Newell, said of the Steam Deck's approach, 'As a gamer, this is a product I've always wanted. Valve informed pre-purchasers in November 2021 that due to the ongoing global chip shortage, the device would fail to ship by December and instead would ship in February 2022, retaining the same order for delivery based on pre-order placement. However, due to its popularity, some pre-order purchasers were informed that later shipments of the 64 GB model and 256 GB NVMe models would be in Q2 2022 and the 512 GB NVMe model by Q3 2022. The Deck, existing in three different models based on internal storage options, was shipped starting in February 2022 in North America and Europe, with other regions to follow throughout the year.

Valve revealed the Steam Deck on July 15, 2021. Ars Technica had been able to confirm that new hardware was in development at Valve.

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Dalton said, 'More and more it just became kind of clear, the more of this we are doing internally, the more we can kind of make a complete package.' Rumors that Valve was working on a portable gaming unit had emerged in May 2021, based on updates made within the Steam code pointing towards a new 'SteamPal' device, and comments made by Gabe Newell related to Valve developing games for consoles. Further, their experience with trying to convince other manufacturers to produce Steam Machines led Valve to realize that it was better to develop all their hardware internally. This was later considered by Valve a very early concept behind the Steam Deck. One idea from this prototype was to include the Steam Link, a device capable of streaming game content from a computer running Steam to a different monitor, here routing that output to the small LCD on the controller. Some of the early prototypes of Valve's Steam Controller, also released in 2015, included a small LCD screen within the middle of the controller which could be programmed as a second screen alongside the game that the user was playing.

The lack of Linux game availability during the lifetime of Steam Machines led Valve to invest development into Proton, a Linux compatibility layer to allow Windows–based games to be run on Linux without modification. Steam Deck designer Scott Dalton said 'there was always kind of this classic chicken and egg problem with the Steam Machine', as it required the adoption of Linux by both gamers and game developers to reach a critical interest in the machines to draw manufacturers in making them. Valve quietly pulled back on it by April 2018, but stated they remained committed to providing some type of open-hardware platform.

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Valve's Steam Machine series of gaming computers using Linux-derived SteamOS was introduced in 2015, which worked their way into the conception of the Steam Deck.

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In desktop mode, users can install Linux-based third-party applications.

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In addition to handheld use, the Steam Deck can be connected to a TV or monitor through a docking station and be used like a desktop computer or home video game console.

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SteamOS uses Valve's Proton compatibility layer, allowing users to run Windows applications and games. The device uses Valve's Linux distribution SteamOS, which incorporates the namesake Steam storefront. The Steam Deck is a handheld gaming computer developed by Valve and released on February 25, 2022.