Steam Deck review — My favorite gaming PC ever made

Stop comparing the Steam Deck’s size to Nintendo Switch or any other dedicated gaming handheld. Valve Software has delivered a cutting-edge handheld PC with mind-blowing specs at an even more mind-blowing price. And in that context, this is a tiny gaming powerhouse that is going to change the way I play games forever.

The Steam Deck launches today — for whatever that means. You needed to preorder months ago for a chance to get one by the end of this year let alone by the end of March. But the device starts at $400 and goes up to $529 and then $649 as you add more and faster storage and extra features. But even that base model comes with a powerful and efficient AMD Zen 2-based PCU and RDNA 2-based video chip. You also get a massive 16GB of speedy LPDDR5 memory and a menagerie of input options. With all of that, you get to experience games on a 7-inch 1200×800 screen.