Habe Newell: Steam Deck should be better than PS5 and Xbox

Habe Newell explains what advantages the Team Deck offers. Especially compared to the consoles you have a strong advantage. This should be above all on the openness of the Steam platform.

Who is Habe Newell? Habe Newell is the boss of Valve, which also belongs to the platform Steam. For the price of the Steam Deck, Newell had evidenced and called the price as "painful".

What does the boss say? In a video interview with IGN, he talked about Valves new console "Steam Deck". Among other things, he came to talk about which advantages there "Steam Deck" could ever offer and what role the console in the future should be (via Ign.com). So Newell explains:

I do not want to hear someone has a Trojan horse trying to escape me. I want to hear what I can do. If there is hardware, I would like to connect you. If there is software, I want to install you.

How is that to understand? Newell says that, for example, you have little influence on what you can install and use it on conventional console. Because the consoles rely on a limited, rather silenced system and prevent the influence of the general gamer.

In contrast, the PC is a significantly more open system. So Newell explains in the same interview:

We believe that the openness of the PC ecosystem is superpower from which we all benefit together.

And just this openness is the big advantage of the new Steam console.

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The big advantage of the Steam Deck should be the openness

This should be the advantage over PS5 and Xbox: The Steam Deck as an open platform basically offers the possibility that you can install everything that is interested. And that is a big advantage over the consoles:

• PS5 and Xbox rely on a separate, proprietary operating system, to which only the developers have access.
• Certain devices are also limited to the consoles. For example, the PS4 and PS5 do not support third-party Bluetooth headsets without dongle.
• On the PS5 and Xbox you can only install software that is intended for it. For example, you can not install a discord on the PlayStation.

Although Steamos is installed on the Steam Deck, but according to Valve, you can also install other operating systems or programs on it.

Newell compares the steam deck clearly with the gaming PC. Because on the PC you are not so severely limited, because here you can screw on the PC, swap hardware or use new hardware or install a new operating system at any time if you no longer like the current system. Consoles do not buys these advantages:

I mean, there have been an attempt to offer mobile game platforms for a long time. And for me as someone used to high-end desktop PCs and console games, that always felt like a compromise. "

Whether everyone interested to release gets a steam deck remains questionable

But a question remains unanswered: Is it managing Valve to really fulfill the high demand for the Steam Deck? Because how big the demand is, it shows about eBay and other trading platforms.

Because here Scalper already try the pre-orders from the Steam Deck expensive to sell. Because these hope for their successes in graphics cards and Next-Gen consoles now on a new, lucrative business with the Valve consoles.

Meanwhile, there is at least a little relaxation on the hardware market. Graphics cards are still very expensive and hardly available depending on the card, but after all, the prices for graphics cards are currently decreasing. Many now hope that prices will fall back to a bearable level over the course of 2021 and 2022.