 Everyone here with a little bit of a late night video for you guys. I'm gonna have a few videos preloaded here over the next Few days. I am traveling over the weekend. We're starting our vacation in all of that So I'm gonna have you know video going up on Saturday and Sunday and I think Monday and Tuesday as well But all these videos will be pre-made So you're gonna get a lot of voice over gameplay and all of that coming up We do plan to do a single live stream. Yes one live stream While we are on vacation So you can look forward to that happening next week But until then let's talk about this news today because I feel like this is relevant in the conversation around Steam Deck I'm this channel, you know, we obviously cover a lot of switch I obviously have bias towards Nintendo But I play everything and the steam deck has been in this interesting place for me where it competes with switch But then it doesn't really compete with switch. It's more so a companion for people who play games on PC Obviously, it's probably going to be an emulation beast. I see no reason this thing isn't gonna be able to emulate Practically everything up through switch, although we'll see what PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 those emulators are Really hit and miss on different types of hardware. So Let's see what happens here, but today Valve confirmed that steam deck Can basically run any game on PC But the target for their games the target for games in general on this device is 30 FPS Which if you're a PC gamer I'm a PC gamer It's a bit of a red flag, but we'll get into it in a moment I want to announce we are giving away a switch OLED by the way if you would like to win one Literally all you have to do is subscribe to the channel So I'm reading this article on WCCF tech and we're gonna go over this the title says steam deck targeting 30 FPS Valve hasn't found any games. It couldn't handle So it says last week valve announced the steam deck their portable Zen 2 powered gaming PC that they promised will be able to run most games at 1280 by 800 although Resolution really doesn't mean that much on its own if you don't know what type of performance the machine is targeting Well valve recently let out a few more details about the steam deck slip in a recent interview with IGN and those hoping for glorious 60 FPS or unlocked portable gameplay are in for disappointment According to steam deck developer Pierre loop griffos achieving 30 FPS in games is their Target and this is thanks to PC gamer for a transcription says if people are still valuing high frame rates and high resolutions on other platforms I think that the content will scale down to our 800p 30 Hertz target really well if people are start heavily Favouring image quality. We might be in position where we might have trade-offs But we haven't really seen that yet 800p is obviously not a big deal to people. That's native resolution You're playing on a small seven-inch screen. I've also said this before for Nintendo switch That's why the 720p isn't really that big of a deal for the size screen It is I know our phones plenty of phone to 4k below I get it But it's not really that big of a deal at that size But the 30 FPS target is kind of a bummer Obviously the steam deck is a PC so some games will run better than that But I imagine that what you'll be looking at for many newer games speaking of which according to Griffiths Valve has tested numerous recent steam games on the deck and they haven't found any that couldn't hit that 30 FPS target This is the first time we've achieved the level of performance That is required to really run the latest generation of games without problems all the games We wanted to be playable is really the entire steam library We haven't really found something we could throw at this device that it couldn't handle Those who haven't been keeping up the scene that runs a custom AMD Van Gogh APU is then to GPU rdni to GPU cores cost between $400 and 650 depending on what storage you opt in for all that jazz This is the it starts be shipping in December and it's back ordered deep into 2022. So here's the thing What do we learn here? We learn Something very interesting here that their internal target is that every game needs a hit 30 FPS Some games are gonna obviously run at 60 I mean, but we can't ignore this some games will run at 60 Oh, I would venture to guess pretty much every indie game is gonna run at 60 a lot of older games You know from from 3 4 5 6 plus years ago. All those games are probably gonna hit 60 FPS as well But what he's basically saying is that newer releases ones that are demanding ones that are trying to impress you visually which is Basically modern AAA gaming in a nutshell Are not hitting 60 FPS on this thing at at at 800 pu 720p, whatever it's hitting 30 FPS And I feel like we need to keep in mind when we talk about the steam deck a number of things and I think one thing that Goes untalked about because guys this is significantly more powerful than switch no doubt But would I be surprised if like when the new Assassin's Creed comes out on PC and that you know Obviously is gonna be instantly playable on steam deck a steam deck is a PC That it might actually look worse than breath of the wild to at 30 FPS on significantly worse hardware. I Wouldn't say I'd be shocked, but here is why I wouldn't be shocked again Something that is being overlooked by a lot of people excited for this device Nothing is being optimized for steam deck. I want to be clear steam deck is using what we term in the PC gaming industry on board graphics onboard graphics have made leaps and bounds right and the latest GPU tech using rd&a2 is going to be in the new APU onboard graphics that are going to be coming in low budget You know low-end gaming laptops valve themselves is basically saying that this that they've essentially come on set themselves That this is a low-budget gaming laptop in your hands Well low-budget gaming laptops really struggle to run Games even on low settings at 60 FPS. It just doesn't really happen. It's one of the Things you trade off for for buying a four hundred dollar or really five hundred is more so the entry point for the real low-end You know laptops that you would consider gaming capable that at least have a gaming capable either a separate GPU or at least a Integrated GPU that is gaming capable is around five hundred dollars and like That doesn't run games. Well Now granted this is a newer GPU tech architecture That is not currently available in any gaming laptops at this point, but it kind of underscores the fact that if valve themselves is saying hey when we throw new You know newer games at this new you know current releases upcoming releases at this thing it hits 30 FPS That's not impressive That's not It's showing the one limitation of this platform is that Nothing on PC is Optimized for this hardware See what happens with switch is if you want to bring your game to switch You need to optimize your game to run on that platform Some optimizations are better than others, but you need to optimize the game specifically for that target of hardware to release on it This is an open platform because it's just a Laptop in a different form right? Let's just call this what it is. This is a laptop in a different form and Because of that it's just gonna run the same games that release on everything else So any sort of high-end AAA release is not going to run very well on this thing. Will it hit 30 FPS? Absolutely. Will it be a solid 30 FPS? Probably although they did note by the way that some of the most graphically intense future games that come out might struggle to hit 30 FPS They're basically admitting. Hey, you know When we get some big AAA PC Game coming here in the next year or two It's possible that it doesn't even hit 30 FPS on this at 800p like they're they're just admitting openly Hey, look everything we throw out at now is what we can't really rule out the fact that hey games coming in the future You know, you know a year or two years from now. They might not even run at 30 FPS on this And again, we there's so many considerations here. I'm not trying to put the steam deck down The steam deck is great But it has the problem that every low-end laptop has and that's that games aren't optimized for the low-end They're optimized for essentially PC games for those in a PC game development. They generally target the largest market Of hardware for PC, which is essentially middle-of-the-road Gaming computers right middle of the road computers ones that have Dedicated GPUs not onboard graphic GPUs ones that are You know basically cost about at least you know at MSRP if you can get an MSRP around $800 to build 800 to a thousand bucks That you know, you know you get like a $1200 laptop something that that's kind of sort of what they are targeting If you look at just know the most common resolutions and GPUs on steam. Yeah, they're older, but they're They're they're they're I just want this to be clear to people. I Know it feels like I'm shitting on the steam deck If you're excited for this device be excited, I'm just trying to set the expectations Realistically and that is what valve is doing here if people value high frame it's a resolution of the platforms Current content will scale down to 800p at 30 Hertz really well But if future games are heavily favoring image quality Yeah, there's gonna be some trade-offs and at some point we might not hit 30 FPS like They're telling you right now this machine is just hitting 30 FPS with some of the most demanding games And what do you think the settings of those demanding games are set at do you think they're saying oh? It's hitting 30 FPS running on high settings No, they're they're going in there and saying look when we put the most demanding game on here And we set it to the low settings it hits 30 FPS That's acceptable to us and every game that comes to the platform is going to run and hit at least 30 FPS I I'm sorry. I'm not excited by that and by the way. I'm not sitting here touting switch over this device I want to be clear here Switch struggles to hit 30 FPS in some games We see it in Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, which by the way is a Warriors game issue that Warriors has FPS issues on like everything It's dumb don't know why they haven't overhauled this engine or at least Like try the different engine how about a brand new engine for Warriors games team injured come on man It's time to get off this ancient hardware or this ancient not hardware I guess ancient you know iteration of Game developing you're doing for Warriors games, but we've seen it in tennis on Nintendo games to struggle to hit 30 We've obviously seen many Nintendo games struggle to hit 60 So like we know right switch is weak. It's weak as hell in 2021 we know it. I think Nintendo is making a mistake with the switch OLED not having it be more powerful We all know the switch is weak But we play for the games right the whole reason that we buy hardware for the games So the big thing that Steam Deck obviously is always gonna have going for it Is it has a massive library of games that it's gonna be bigger than any platform in existence one? Because literally you can emulate everything up through switch number two Yeah, you have the entire PC gaming library going back to the beginning of PC gaming So there's obviously a massive library to draw on for this device And that is an advantage for a steam deck and that could be you know if you're just someone who plays older games You know this could be fine. This could be absolutely fine for you if you're someone who just plays older games So yeah, I don't know this is just me spitballing to the wind here switch obviously You know, it's only advantage. You know is that hey it has exclusive games built for the platform That's cool And you can't get those games, you know necessarily in the best form on PC I'm actually gonna be curious I've seen some of the comparable like the IA Neo as an example. I've seen it run switch emulators And while it runs a switch emulator fine, and it plays switch games I haven't seen those switch games really necessarily running at 60 FPS I could be wrong on that front but from what I have seen of videos of it the switch games aren't hitting 60 FPS Which you know is what it is all I know is this hardware is nice But the mitigating factor is that nothing is going to be made specifically for it and Because of that it's always going to suffer at getting the low end of the stick This device is way more capable than 30 FPS in the latest triple-a games If companies want to optimize for it, but they won't because it's a PC and It's open architecture on an open platform So because of that it's never going to be optimized for it The one advantage of consoles is things are always optimized for that specific hardware on that device sometimes reportedly optimized But they are optimized on PC. It's a crapshoot some hardware is just going to run things better than others It is what it is. This hardware is going to run triple-a games at 30 FPS and For most some people that's going to be fine For me as a PC gamer do the whole reason my PC game is to get higher FPS So this thing already didn't really interest me much at 60 Hertz let alone Let alone running like modern games at 30 I get to those 400 bucks. What do you expect for 400 right? Just be happy it runs everything. I guess at that price point But I mean games are gonna look better on Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 just a fact It's gonna look better. They're more powerful platforms similar pricing can't take them on the go though That is a huge advantage. It's the advantage switch has and it's gonna be advantage of this what the market is for this I don't know. I think maybe again They're just trying to get people who weren't into PC gaming into PC gaming I think there's a big market they could tap into by doing that by making PC gaming accessible But I'm very curious if you are a current PC gamer That that plays a lot of modern titles. Are you interested in this device? Now that you know your modern title might run at low settings at 30 FPS Are you interested still in the steam deck? And if you are cool? I get why you are play your game anywhere. Well, 30 FPS is still better than zero FPS like not being able to play it on the go Totally can understand that argument, but I'm just curious as a PC gamer myself. I ain't really interested in going below 60 That's the whole reason I am a PC gamer So I know everything that I run on my PC is gonna be over 60 FPS Anyways, folks, I understand a little jazz from the top. I'm thanks so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video I