Valve qualifies its words about 30FPS on Steam Deck: “it’s the minimum, not our cap”

The words of a designer of the portable gaming PC caused a stir among fans.

With his words he generated an intense debate among the players. Wouldn’t the Steam Deck be capable of exceeding 30fps in most video games? To give you an idea, here in 3DJuegos the news had about 300 comments . So with such repercussion, Pierre-Loup Griffais from Valve wanted to qualify his words about Steam Deck targeting 30fps and 800p .

“The ’30fps target’ referred to the minimum that we consider playable in our performance tests; the games we have tested and shown have consistently met and exceeded this figure,” commented this Valve employee. Precisely, as we tell you in our special Steam Deck in depth: We reveal you the 44 keys of the new Valve console-portable PC , we already talked about some examples such as DOOM Eternal at more than 60 fps with a High / Ultra configuration.

Pierre-Loup Griffais has also confirmed that Steam Deck users will have an ” optional FPS limiter to adjust performance based on battery life.” An ideal option for those who want to increase the playing time before needing a new charge of this 40Wh battery that, according to the information known to date, will last between 2 and 8 hours of play . We have a concrete example in Portal 2: if we play at 720p and 60FPS, the Steam Deck’s battery will last around 4 hours.

In recent days we have had abundant information related to what is new from Valve, which has not hesitated to talk about the similarities and differences between Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch .