Valve is working on a PC handheld called SteamPal which based on Linux system

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Since the great success of the Nintendo Switch, many people have renewed their attention to the handheld game console market. Now there is news that Valve also intends to build a PC handheld on the Steam platform.

This is an exclusive report from the media ArsTechnica. They learned from multiple sources that Valve is making a handheld device similar to Switch, based on the Linux system, relying on their own Steam platform with a large number of games. It is currently called SteamPal. In fact, a codenamed Neptune was discovered earlier, which should be closer to the final name.

According to people who have contact with this hardware project, SteamPal will be an all-in-one PC with a touch screen and handle. The Valve handheld is more like a device mainly used for streaming. In fact, they have done unsuccessful Steam Link streaming boxes and strangely-shaped Steam controllers for this kind of hardware product.

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And according to the existing Windows platform handhelds on the market, such as GPD Win 3 and Onebook, they all choose to carry Intel or AMD mobile low-voltage CPUs from thin and light notebooks and use the built-in GPU to run PC games. SteamPad may do the same, but it runs the underlying Linux system and supports most of the games on Steam through the open-source OS. Of course, these are just everyone’s guesses at present, and we still have to wait for the Valve official release.

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