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Indeed, this kind of seamless device switching was one of the most impressive things about Blade's Shadow cloud gaming service when I tested it a few years ago, and I hope that Valve manage produce a similar experience on the Deck. We'll do a lot of that work before launch, but some of it we're going to keep iterating on after launch, and I think there are many of those features that we will think of once customers have devices in their hands. All those things, again, they already work, but we're going to be shipping updates that target those scenarios and make them as seamless as possible. 'With a quick save to the cloud, or I could pick up where I left off by streaming from that device if I've got good bandwidth. 'There are actually multiple ways to do ,' says Coomer. Still, the feature I'm looking forward to the most is its upcoming 'suspend and resume' feature, which will let you seamlessly switch between the Deck and your desktop.

Steam controller upgrade#

This will be good news for anyone hoping to play more demanding games on their Deck, although it does rather run counter to the idea that the Deck is a viable upgrade choice for those looking to replace their current rig. Those scenarios, they work right now, but we're going to ship ways that make those scenarios easier and easier.' 'Streaming from another PC is a thing this device can do, there are some scenarios where you'd want to do that, like you could avoid installing a game twice and save some battery if you're sitting in the same room as the PC that you're running on. ' relies heavily on all the cloud technology that's built into the Steam backend,' he says.

Steam controller software#

Most of those features will be on the software side, Coomer tells me, with a particular focus on how the Deck interacts with the cloud. So there's a sort of inherent futureproofing that Valve tries to operate with all the time, where customers can expect new functionality and features to arrive on the device during the whole course of its life.' 'Launch is just the beginning of what we see as bringing features to customers on this device. 'This device is going to get the same treatment that Steam customers are used to in bringing new features to it well after launch,' Coomer tells me. It will, however, continue to get plenty of additional post-launch updates that will give it new features on the software side, he said, including a bunch of nifty cloud capabilities.

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Alas, anyone hoping for similar technological surprises inside their upcoming portable Steam Deck PC are going to be disappointed, as Valve designer Greg Coomer has assured me there 'isn't something secret embedded in the Steam Deck that we're going to turn on later' (if only because it already has a gyro built-in). When Valve first released the Steam Controller, it had a hidden, latent gyroscope inside it that Valve switched on later to get it extra hardware functionality.