Valve has confirmed that for its upcoming handheld device, the Steam Deck, the company won’t be promoting the release of exclusive games that you couldn’t get on a desktop or laptop.
This is one of those things that sounds perfectly obvious when looking at it from one direction and something that requires direct confirmation when you have come across it from elsewhere. Of course it won’t get any exclusivity, it’s just a small computer, so everything that runs on it can run on a large computer.
But then we also live in a dystopian hell landscape, where it wouldn’t have been surprising if developers – or maybe even Valve itself – tried to create Steam Deck exclusives that somehow used portable functions or didn’t work at all first and foremost, just to get us to buy the same game again.
As IGN Reports, in a new FAQ published as part of the developer documentationValve distances itself from the idea of exclusive games:
Would Valve be interested in exclusive Steam Deck titles?
No, that doesn’t make much sense to us. It’s a PC and it should only play games like a PC.
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You even could do a game exclusive to the Steam Deck when it’s just a small PC?
The Steam Deck, a handheld PC that comes pre-installed with Valve’s Steam storefront and gaming platform, was originally due to be released before the end of 2021. However, global delivery bottlenecks have taken their toll here as elsewhere, and the original release of the Steam Deck in December 2021 has instead been postponed to February 2022.
Not that anyone reading this post to buy information could get one anyway, since Valve first offered it sold out almost immediately.
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