This early Steam Deck prototype is prettier than the real thing
Those circular trackpads are *chef's kiss*

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Deck is a great little handheld PC, bu♚t there's an old prototype version that looks like my idea of a Steam Deck 2.
Valve coder Pierre-Loup Griffais shared a pair of images on Twitter showing a bunch of early iterations on the handheld from 2019 up to the current version that's available today. There's a couple with neat little white accents around the edges and on the buttons, there are some with rounder edges and bigger bezels than the production model, and there seem to be different dimensions to each of them. They all look pretty good, but there's one in the first image with circular trackpads that's just a e s t h e t i c.
As part of the Asia launch press event, we made the design lab into a showroom o🌳f development history. My favorite are the playable prototypes: bootable Deck family tree from mid-2019 to now, from a couple of hand-built units onto gradual mass production. pic.twitter.com/TpU5I8D50p
There's nothing wrong with the way the current Steam Deck looks, but to me, there's something just a little, well, Game Gear-esque about its design. 🐻It's a little bulkier than I've come to expect from a handheld after five years with my Switch, and it very much looks like it's made of hard plastics. However, the prototype smack dab in the middle of the first image appears more minimalist, sophisticated, and premium. Here's the one:
I'm not the only one enamored by this specific prototype. A bunch of replies gush about its trackpads, clean lines, and "concavenessꦗ." One observer suggested Valve reimagine the handsome prototype as "the future Steam Deck Mini."
There's something about 💞the circle t♒rack pads that I like
It must be the concaveness of it, I'm sure.
That middle one has GOT TO BE the future♈ Steam Deck Mini!
They are nice…can’t lie about t♍hat…
To be fair, there all sorts of reasons manufacturers tweak the designs of pro🧸totypes, whether to be more efficient, powerful,🌠 or appealing to the eye. So, while this newly revealed prototype is undeniably lovely, it might have simply not been a feasible choice.
Despite all of this, the handheld currently on the market scored 4.5/5 stars in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Deck review, and that definitely counts for something.
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