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SteamOS Will Soon Be Available on Non-Steam Deck Handhelds

Valve will begin allowing third-party handhelds to license SteamOS starting with Lenovo's new Legion Go S.

At CES 2025, Lenovo announced that it will ship a version of its upcoming Legion Go S handheld called the "Powered by SteamOS" that will run, you guessed it, SteamOS. This is the same OS that powers Valve's Steam Deck, which is pretty good if you're primarily someone who owns all their PC games on Steam.

Valve Dismisses Steam Deck 2 Speculation

As noted by GamesRadar+, the miscommunication began when VideoCardz.com put up a slide that mentioned that Ryzen's Z2 processors are capable of creating a boom in the handheld console market, even naming the likes of the ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and the Steam Deck. This was compounded by AMD saying that the next iterations of these devices would indeed be powered by Z2 processors.

Skipping The Z2 APU Could Be An Amazing Decision For The Steam Deck 2

The Steam Deck has reinvigorated my passion for gaming, and I can't wait to see how Valve is going to iterate on their amazing portable device. However, it may take a little longer for us to find out what a Steam Deck 2 will be like since Valve has specifically stated that they will not be using the newly announced Z2 chips for the Deck. I have seen mixed reactions to this, with a lot of people wanting a more powerful Deck and hoping Z2 would make its way over, but this decision from Valve could actually make the Steam Deck 2 significantly better while sticking to Valve's generational leap commitment.

NVIDIA To Release Native GeForce NOW App For Steam Deck

It can be hard to run some of the newest games on the Steam Deck without major compromises, which can be a bummer. Luckily, there are a few ways around this, and one of those is cloud streaming. There are two options that come to my mind for it, but the one I use the most is GeForce NOW. Paying a subscription fee to stream from an ultra-powerful computer with a powerhouse GPU, as well as tons of great games that are supported, is just fantastic. And it's going to get a lot better on the Steam Deck soon!..

So i think we need more news like this ill help when i can too. So lets boost this thread!!...

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Last edited by zero129 - on 09 January 2025