The new Steam Deck ebook lays out Valve’s long-term vision

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On Thursday, Valve released a book about the steam deck, steam, and the company itself. The book was released six months before the launch of the steam deck in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

If you want to learn more about Valve or the Steam Deck, you should read the ebook. You can read about Valve's ambitions for the Steam Deck in its own words, as well as a few pages of Steam Deck prototypes.

The Steam Deck and SteamOS are going to be a multi-generational product line. The Steam Deck has been called a multi-generational category by Valve in the past, but the company goes even further with what it prints in the book.

Anyway, this is a multi-generational product line. Valve will support Steam Deck and SteamOS well into the foreseeable future. We will learn from the Steam community about new uses for our hardware that we haven’t thought of yet, and we will build new versions to be even more open and capable than the first version of Steam Deck has been.

Hopefully the third entry of a certain video game series will arrive before the Steam Deck 3, though I am eagerly anticipating it.

There are more than 130 million active players on Steam, and more than 30,000 titles on the platform, according to Valve. According to the publishing of the book, more than 4,500 titles have the "Verified" or "Playable" designation for Steam Deck, meaning that approximately 15% of all games on Steam are already deemed to be "Playable."

Since those first order emails went out, Valve has been ramping up its shipping volume, and on Wednesday the company said that some Q4 reservations were being bumped up to Q3 If you place a reservation today, you won't be able to get your device until sometime in the fourth quarter. Valve has a book for you to read while you wait for your email to arrive.