It’s not every day that we have the chance to experience the arrival of a new console. Next February, after several months of delay due to the shortage which also affects the PS5 and Xbox Series, Valve will officially market the Steam Deck, its own portable console that is nothing but a kind of PC that looks like Nintendo Switch. A machine perfectly suited to the Steam ecosystem, allowing you to play large-scale games absolutely anywhere with ergonomics designed for.
In short, the project is exciting and a few weeks before the release, the catalog of available titles is slowly starting to take shape. Therefore, to say, one of Valve’s best games – and one of the best games of its generation at all – has just officially been “valid” for Steam Deck: Portal 2.
Not only does this “check” confirm the perfect compatibility of the excellent Portal 2 on the Steam Deck (if you still haven’t done so: go for it, dear ancestors) but it especially emphasizes the existence of a precise validation of the games by Valve for its console. To be able to display “Steam Deck Compatibility” on Steam, lThe titles must be reviewed, upstream, by the studio and correspond to four criteria:
Depending on these different objectives, four states remain for a game concerning its compatibility with the Steam Deck: “checked” when the game works perfectly on the platform, “playable” when the title is functional but may require some adjustments, “Unsupported” when the title is simply not compatible with the console and finally, “unknown” when Valve has yet to verify if the game can run on its famous baby.
This guarantees in any case the possibility of playing Portal 2 on the Steam Deck. ; Similarly, we know for example that Devil May Cry 5 worked perfectly on the little beast (in particular thanks to a gameplay video issued by Capcom not long ago). By going on the official site, we also learn that games like Death Stranding or Ghostrunner are also “verified”.
Release planned for the month of February.
