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Ever since the Steam Deck was first unveiled last month, Valve have said one of their top design goals was making sure it could play the entire Steam back catalogue, including games from the last 12 months. It's a tall order for such a dinky little device, but speaking to Steam Deck designers Greg Coomer and Lawrence Yang over Zoom last week, it's clear the team never really considered any other option. "Although we did discuss versions of the device that would be more appropriate for, say, lower-spec games, that was never really a prominent thrust of our work," Coomer tells me. "It wasn't really interesting to a lot of people who work here."