The upcoming Steam Deck portable PC potentially has an opportunity to make a statement about where the future of mobile gaming could be going. With the likes of Xbox's Phil Spencer praising the Valve device a few weeks back, there is quite a lot of buzz about the system. On top of that, Valve recently sent out development kits to studios and partners for them to test their own games out on. Some feedback has since been doing the rounds, and the general consensus on the Deck seems to be brimming with positivity.

According to a report from VGC, as well as numerous tweets from developers, the Steam Deck is shaping up to be quite an impressive machine. One review from Cliff Harris, the founder of Politech Games, said that his studio's game Democracy 4, which was released last October, ran decently on the device. He praised the sound in particular, as well as the framerate, adding that his first impression is that the Deck is "really really cool." Another tweet, this time from the official account of the flight simulator game X-Plane, showed a picture of the game itself being played with a joystick.

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Given that it's essentially a full PC, which means the Steam Deck can also have Windows installed on it, the idea of having additional gaming peripherals in-use is probably not too surprising, but it is still impressive to see that it does work with a joystick. As well as this, Descenders publisher, No More Robots, say that the system runs the game "flawlessly" adding that even with the graphics set to ultra-high, they were still able to get between 50 and 60 fps. The founder, Mike Rose, did also say that Valve could benefit from adding controller support to certain games, although the device's touch screen feature can still be used on games that require a mouse and keyboard.

Valve sent out the Steam Deck kits just over a week ago, and already it seems that the studios currently using it are pleased with how it's turning out. Of course, Valve did make it known to partners and developers that it is still a work-in-progress and that the company is still fine-tuning it. However, it did also say that the dev kit does represent a near-complete product, but that studios should expect some changes between this and the final release.

There have been some concerns over the Deck possibly not being compatible with every Steam game, but from what's been said so far, it doesn't appear that anyone has encountered such an issue just yet. It remains to be seen what the public will think of it when it comes out in the next few months.

Steam Deck is scheduled to be released this December.

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Source: VGC