FWIW, this month is probably an undercount of China, just like we've historically had the big spikes from overcounting China. The trend, and Valve's own aggregate data, has English and Simplified Chinese about equal, so either one coming up significantly higher than the other shows noise in the data collection.

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Hopefully it's the start of a comprehensive re-evaluation of the ratings. "30 fps at native resolution and default settings" is their stated benchmark for "performs well on Deck," and that's fair enough - as long as the rating actually reflects that. Obviously there have been cases where games don't manage that, and it hasn't been reflected in Valve's rating; that needs to be fixed.

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This has been on my wishlist for a while. 4X games benefit from a big screen and, since getting my Deck, I spend less time playing games at my desk. I'll get round to it eventually, I'm sure. It's just got to be a time when I'm more in the mood for a 4X game than for sitting on the sofa.

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The desktop doesn't, but the gaming session uses gamescope, which is a Wayland compositor. Doesn't that mean that effectively games on the Deck run on Wayland?

No. Gamescope is essentially an XWayland compositor. It uses Wayland protocols to draw X11 applications, but can't handle Wayland-only applications. At some point it will, and at some point the desktop session will use Wayland, but not yet.

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The Deck doesn't use Wayland.

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Windows simply isn't designed for the use-case of being on a gaming handheld. Forcing you through a terrible setup experience, and just a generally poor experience when using it in this form factor.

Which is exacerbated by the fact that they don't generally come with even one trackpad. They might not be able to master Valve-style haptics, but just the standard trackpads these manufacturers already put in their laptops would be a huge boon for navigating a WIMP interface.

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XCOM 2 is really cheap. The Talos Principle is less than four quid. Poly Bridge 3 is less than a tenner.

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Oof. A couple of days after the PPA finally got around to building the non-beta driver from the 570 branch, Nvidia releases a new one. Hopefully they'll move quicker on this one.

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I'm with dpanter - have it on by default if you must but keep the ability to turn it off.

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It is completely unclear how they arrive at one of 3 categories, they should publish some guidelines on what 'Verified' means exactly and what a game needs to support to get it.

FWIW, they have.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat#DeckCompatibilityChecklist [External Link]

And then stick to those guidelines, because right now it's just one big mess.

Yep, that's the rub.

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