The company will offer the operating system used for Steam Deck on partners’ handheld consoles.
Lenovo announced at CES with the Legion Go S that it will ship its cheapest new handheld with the SteamOS operating system, and Valve recently confirmed that they will indeed open up their operating system to partners.
With regard to SteamOS, which originally shipped with Steam Deck, Valve’s partners will receive the exact same system and even receive the same product support, so users can expect roughly the same experience. In addition to Lenovo, there will be other applicants, among other things, in the case of GPD Win 4, Valve’s operating system will be available in addition to Windows 11.
In connection with the development, we learned that SteamOS is technically a platform-independent solution, but it will initially be used by handheld consoles that use an AMD Ryzen system chip. This could have happened because Valve also developed the whole thing on AMD bases, so the software background is definitely stable here, but Intel is said to be working hard to install SteamOS on their own ultra-mobile platforms later on. The point here is that Valve does not shy away from this, so the necessary work is also going on in the background.
In the longer term, SteamOS may also overtake the handheld market, but for now it looks like the priority is to gain a foothold here, and with the Steam Deck’s background, it has a pretty good chance. This is actually a good decision on Valve’s part, they build much more in stages, compared to the previous Steam Machine project, where they actually wanted to achieve everything at once, and they didn’t get very far.
Source: prohardver.hu
