The Valve Steam Deck is set to be released in December, and has thus far be shaping up as a portable PC for your Steam games library. Only that may not be the case after all, at least not at launch.
That’s according to James B. Ramey, president of software development outfit CodeWeavers, a company that’s been working alongside Valve on the Proton compatibility layer that supports the Steam Deck’s Linux-based SteamOS. Ramey noted that it’s pretty unlikely that every Stream game will run on the handheld computer.
Before you rush out to cancel your Steam Deck pre-order, if you were lucky enough to get one, it’s worth remembering that Proton supports a healthy 16,000 games. That’s a lot, probably more than you’ll play in a lifetime, but it’s not the entirety of the Steam library.
However, Ramey’s comments were in response to a Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais telling IGN that “all…
