Gabe Newell defends that Steam Deck is an open console: “we benefit as a group”

Valve’s president justifies allowing users to install different operating systems on the laptop.

Steam Deck is a Portable PC with everything that goes with it, including allowing the user to uninstall their operating system to bet directly on Windows 10, for example, and enjoy all the incentives of Microsoft software. And is that according to Gabe Newell , president of Valve, the open nature of the computer ecosystem is “a superpower” that must be exploited and not rejected.

If you want to install the Epic Games Store here or run an Oculus Quest on it, greatGabe newell“Our view is that the open nature of the PC ecosystem is a superpower that we all benefit from as a group . So if you want to install the Epic Games Store here or run an Oculus Quest on it, great. Those are features, right? That’s what I want to hear as a player, “explains the businessman in a chat with the US portal IGN. In fact, Gabe Newell was critical of the usual policy on the subject on consoles. “I don’t want to hear that someone has a Trojan Horse looking to block me. I want to hear what they want to do. If there’s hardware, I want to test it. If there’s software, I want to install it . I can go and do it. We think that’s great.”

Gabe Newell also took advantage of the interview to comment that, indeed, they have had to make a lot of sacrifices to reach a realistic price for the device . “We will have to find out whether we have made the right concessions or not. […] And soon we will find out if the decisions we make are correct. But I think they are.” In this sense, the performance of video games in the system has been quite commented these days, ensuring that they will go to at least 30 FPS.

Do you want to know more about the laptop? Do not hesitate to consult this special with the 44 keys that you have to know about Steam Deck . The hardware will hit stores in December in different models that, in their early days, are a pre-order hit.