Steam Sims players will just find the game in their Steam library upon launch. Plus, it would not have to be ported at all. So what does everyone else think of this? Would you want to play Sims on a PC portable like the Steam Deck? I personally think it suits it more than a Switch port that would eat up my storage space. It seems like it will pretty well define flexibility as a handheld in usage, you just will not be able to upgrade parts beyond SD cards (something not foreign to the console market). Especially with those touch pads acting as a laptop track pad. Now, I am not typically into Sims mainline UI with console controls, but for the portability I think it will be a decent compromise. That means the Sims 4 should play on this thing. You can even download windows and what not, browse the web, etc.

Plus it has much more storage than the Nintendo Switch at the base level and, as a PC equivalent, allows the use of Epic, Origin, Microsoft, etc. So the idea of a super portable Steam library is fairly appealing to me. Bare minimum portability is exactly that, bare minimum, and something beyond that I find enticing. Aka, I rarely have access to a proper desk or equivalent hard surface so a traditional desktop does not really work for me (and I have set desktops up on a coffee table). Laptops have ended up a PC for a non-traditional setup for me. It was not anything special to be especially heavy, either. I despised having to set up, pack up, and lug around mine for classes. For the record, laptops never felt as portable as they were made out to be for me. I love handhelds, and being able to play regular PC games on the go sounds pretty great. I am actually really interested in it, more than I thought I would be during the initial rumor phase. Now it has officially been announced and preorders begin tomorrow (or later today for some).

So I had heard rumors about this thing for a bit and just sort of let them fester in the back of my mind.

The new steam deck