![]() There are two speakers on the bottom which offer some decent sound while inside of games. You can find things like your brightness, audio mixes for sound and voice, your friends list, notifications and more. The right is quick menu access, and here is where you’ll spend some time fine-tuning the Steam Deck. Under the pads, you’ve also got your Steam button, which takes essentially to the main menu and allows you to access various areas of the Steam Deck like your games library, game settings, media files and settings. These don’t really come into play while playing traditional games on the Steam Deck, but they do come in handy when you’re in desktop mode, but more on that in another video, as we’re solely concentrating on the Steam Deck with this one. On top, you can find your power and volume controls, and some interesting inputs around the front are the two touch-sensitive pads, akin to a laptop mousepad on a laptop. You’ve got two analogue sticks, a D-Pad on the top left that’s reachable with your left thumb, your A, B, X, Y buttons, start and select either side of the screen, four trigger buttons and four extra buttons on the back too. Its control inputs mimic that of a typical games console controller. The whole thing is covered in matte grippy plastic, again for that grip, but I suspect to keep the cost down, though anything more than what it’s offering I don’t think is really even needed. Its handles are thicker of course than the centre, so you can get a good comfortable ergonomic grip on the handles. It measures at around 31 centimetres in width, around 12 centimetres in height and depth ranges depending on where you measure. Sure, it’s portable, lightweight, and can feel pretty comfortable when playing games, but it’s not going in a pocket, and it’s taking up a chunk of backpack space. At this point I just want to give a massive shout out to Valve, the creators of the Steam Deck who very graciously provided us with a review unit to take a look at. But we’ve been told they’re going to be sorted out. ![]() The Steam Deck is here, and it works, pretty well if I do say so myself, albeit for a few hiccups and bugs along the way. Of course, portable gaming isn’t new, and with Nintendo pretty much dominating the space for at least a century now, and smartphone gaming becoming a huge market, PC gamers were being left behind. ![]() The chance to play our favourite PC games on the go. ![]() The product we’ve really all been waiting for, and the review we promised back when we did our unboxing.
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