Pictures of the Steam Deck couldn’t prepare me for seeing it in person. After working on the Steam Deck in secret for years, Valve invited us to its offices to be among the first to test out the handheld gaming PC, before game developers have even gotten their hands on it. And wow, is it big. This is the full tower PC case of videogame handhelds.
Once I actually picked up the Steam Deck, though, the size didn’t seem to matter much. At.66kg it isn’t too heavy to hold comfortably. It’s wide, but the inputs are close enough to reach naturally. The button arrangement may look a little odd, but it fits how you grip the device. The Steam Deck is as big as it needed to be to pack in all the features Valve thought it should contain (which is basically everything, minus
