The base Steam Deck comes with just 64GB of storage on an eMMC SSD and costs $330. When the Steam Deck was initially up for reservation, customers could reserve one of three variants, each at a different price point.

It seems that these VR-related musings could have been, to some extent, prompted by the surprising success of the Steam Deck’s pre-orders. Providing access to VR on the go without needing a beefy gaming PC to support it could give the Steam Deck a major edge over its competitors. VR is typically very resource-heavy, but many people deem it to be, at the very least, a big part of the future of gaming. If the company truly does intend to keep upping the specifications of this portable gaming PC, VR could definitely be possible in the future. He then went on to mention VR applications specifically as something that could be possible in a future version of the Steam Deck. The second iterations are going to be more about what are the capabilities that mobile gives us, above and beyond what you would get in a traditional desktop or laptop gaming environment?” said Newell. “The first step is to let you play the great games that exist today.

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