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Steam Deck Competitor Claims Valve Reached Out for Cooperation
GPD WIN, one of the companies producing handheld gaming PCs, claims that Valve has reached out to its representatives with a cooperation proposal.
gamerant.com
The company representatives recently announced via IndieGoGo that they are in talks with Valve about potential cooperation between the two companies in the future.
GPD itself claims that Valve asked if the company was interested in SteamOS implementations for its future releases. Specifically, it seems like Valve wants to get SteamOS fully operational on the newer generation of AMD 6800U handhelds, which is precisely the chip inside GPD's flagship WIN Max 2 device. While the Steam Deck supports Windows, Valve isn't hiding the fact that it's trying to leverage Linux as a powerful alternative for gamers, and support from other "competing" companies in this hardware category would go a long way towards making that happen.