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I've found that extended gameplay sessions see the Joycons' squared off edges dig into your palms. What surprised me was that the comfort level during play exceeded Switch and I actually found it easier to use. That's the price you pay for performance: adequate cooling requires area, as does the substantial 40Whr battery.

Steam Deck's form factor: large but ultimately very comfortableīut what about the form factor, the size and heft? We know it's big, but does that impact playability? Valve sent Digital Foundry a 512GB SSD version (256GB and 64GB versions are also available) and first impressions live up to expectations: it is indeed large and thick, especially stacked up against Nintendo Switch.

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Obviously, resolution drops from console-standard 1080p to the mobile-orientated 720p or 800p. It may take some tweaking but the results are worth it - Steam Deck absolutely can deliver console-class performance, even on demanding titles.

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There are limitations to be aware of and specific weaknesses to look out for, especially when CPU and GPU compete for system resources, but the fact is that this Steam Machine offers eye-opening levels of performance for any portable device, let alone a handheld. Doom Eternal? Whack up everything to ultra settings, engage dynamic resolution scaling to counter frame drops on big explosions and glory kills and you're locked to 60 frames per second from start to finish - incredible. Forza Horizon 5 seemed to have issues in pre-release coverage (and during the review period too, to be honest) but since the last major SteamOS upgrade, I'm running it at a flat high preset with 4x MSAA at 30fps - it's like a mini-Xbox One rendition of the game, only with improved quality settings over the One S version.

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Based on my own experience of tweaking and tuning it with settings that exceed PS4 quality, it can easily sail past 30fps across the run of play - it's a great showpiece title for the handheld. When I first saw footage of Control running, it seemed to be struggling to hit 30fps. In pre-launch opportunities and other marketing, Valve has perhaps downplayed expectations. There's the sense that there's still a long road ahead until Steam Deck compatibility is absolutely where it needs to be. For example, Nex Machina and The Witcher 2 freeze with a black screen after loading, Red Dead Redemption 2 crashes randomly, while Doom 64's continual seconds-long stuttering makes the title unplayable.

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There are still plenty of rough edges and in terms of the full Steam library compatibility the system needs, that's still much to do. The truth is that it was only on Monday February 21st that I felt the system was stable enough to properly review it.

Right up until the day before the review embargo, new updates were still appearing (thankfully, with only minor changes) and I expect more to come.

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SteamOS and software updates arrived throughout the review period, sometimes changing the experience dramatically. There's still the sense that Steam Deck is very much a work-in-progress. However, there is also the cold, hard reality of the niggles and frustrations you endure alongside the winning experiences. 29 minutes of analysis, gameplay and a vast array of performance testing.

Watch on YouTube Here it is - the Digital Foundry Steam Deck hardware review. The cheap, powerful handheld Nintendo hasn't delivered yet with Switch Pro? A portable PS4? The ultimate mobile device for retro gaming? Potentially, Steam Deck can do all of these things and as soon as you've sunk a couple of hours into the system, you get some idea of what it's actually capable of - and from there, the possibilities seem endless. I suspect it's for this reason that Steam Deck is so eagerly awaited, because the system offers so much opportunity that inevitably, it becomes the embodiment of what everyone has ever wanted from a handheld. On top of that, this isn't a locked down console, it's a fully open PC, meaning that you can effectively run what you want on it - including Windows, if you want. It's built around a Linux-based iteration of the Steam platform, meaning that in theory at least, you have a machine capable of playing the entire Steam library with access to games stretching back decades. Steam Deck isn't a cutting-edge PlayStation Vita successor though - it's so much more than that. With minimal tweaking, you're playing Horizon Zero Dawn or God of War at native resolution at 30fps and to put it frankly, that's quite a marvel to behold. Imagine PlayStation 4-level performance at Nintendo Switch mobile resolution or better and you have some idea of what Valve's Steam Deck can actually deliver in terms of raw performance. PS4-quality gaming in the palm of your hand.