Update: Valve really is working on a portable console sim♊ilar to the Nintendo Switch, and it's hoping to have it in stor🦹es by the end of 2021, according to a report that backs up details from a recent leak.

The new info comes from in an article that surfaced just hours af🌃ter we wrote about references to a new Steam handheld console codenamed SteamPal. According to Ars Technica, the console has been in development for years 🔴and could launch this year if the supply chain holds through.

Like the nam𝓰e itself, SteamPal is likely to change in the months, years maybe, until its release. Today's report describes a prototype system that's noticeably wider than the Switch, with a touchscreen, your standard gamepad controls, and at least one thumb-sized touchpad. 

The SteamPal is expected to pack either an Intel or AMD processor similar to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:other "Switch-like PCs" that have picked up a lot of steam in recent years. Valve's foray into the category will rep🎃ortedly include a dock that yo🉐u can use to project the screen onto a larger TV or monitor, again, just like the Switch.

Ars doesn't have any information about things like processing grunt or screen resolution, but its report suggests that the SteamPal is precisely what Valve co-founder Gabe Newell was referring to when he said we'd get a Steam-related console ann📖ouncement by the end of the year.

Original story:

A new Steam handheld console coul🥀d be on the way if references in a new Steam update are to be believed. 

Just below, you can see the complete breakdown of files found within the latest update to hit Steam, through two tweets by a Steam dataminer. It turns out Steam's new client beta refꦚers to something called "Steampal," which some believe is a handheld device that Valve is planning to release, boasting the ability to play PC games on the go.

That's not all, though. The new update for Steam makes reference to both "quick access" and power ▨menus, a🐻s well as options to "shut down," "suspend," or "restart" the system in question. There are even references to Bluetooth settings, wifi, and airplane modes, further pointing to a handheld device.

Valve has obviously dipped its toe꧙ into the 𓄧hardware waters several times over the past few years. There have been the likes of the Steam controller, the Steam link, the Valve Index virtual reality headset, and other devices, so the likelihood of Valve developing a new handheld device for portable PC gaming isn't exactly outside the realms of possibility.

Recently, Valve CEO Gabe Newell hinted at possibly bringing Steam games to consoles at some point in the future. During a Q&A session in New Zealand, where Newell has been living since last year, the CEO was asked whether Steam games could ever come to consoles, to which Newell replied that people would "澳洲幸💟运5开奖号码历史查询⛦:get a better idea by the end of this year." It's a surprisingly candid answer for a question with such massive pot🦄ential behind it.

For a list of some of the best games you can get on Valve's storefront right now, head over to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:25 best Steam games for more.