excited and they've done that part extremely well but there's also the matter of setting correct expectations and finding the right audience and i can't say that they've done an a plus job of that so far they've already made a few mistakes in my eyes first they've said that every game on steam would be playable savvy pc players took that as either a mistake or as an ideal state one that valve would like to get to one day we did not take that as a promise that every game or nearly every game would be playable at launch despite the hardware itself being relatively capable the deck verified program is itself proof that every game will not be playable at launch much less ideal on the other side of this we have people wondering why the big multiplayer games are still not proton compatible despite the announcements thus far and we are getting major recent releases like new world guardians of the galaxy and age of empires NUMBER_TOKEN that are completely unplayable on proton furthermore i think people are expecting that valve will be able to rate all steam games within a year for whether or not they are playable or verified and i think that valve is partly responsible for people believing this they did not set any expectations they left it wildly open to interpretation finally there's a tear down in my tear down revisited video i mentioned a confusing tone in valve's tear down now on the one hand this is the one time valve sort of couched expectations with the steam deck but on the other hand i feel the messaging was again left unclear the actual target audience of the video were the tinkerers and in my eyes they were given more of a dog whistle that it's okay to service their device rather than full support in these instances of what i perceive to be unclear messaging i think that valve hopes to leave everyone excited about the steam deck regardless of who they are and how they game while that sounds like a sensible goal it leaves a lot of room for disappointment from people that inferred things like every game will be playable or you will have everything you need to repair your device that room for disappointment could lead to poor word of mouth in the first few months of release a rocky start stemming from unclear messaging would be a serious unforced error on valve's part and i think that they can avoid it if they start tightening their messaging a bit so that's my extra ambitious wish list with a dash of steam deck history what's missing from my list maybe something about emulation let me know in the comments for what it's worth this has been one of my harder efforts in terms of research and writing so if you think i did a good job don't forget to hit the like button and if you want more content around steam deck pc gaming and tech make sure to subscribe there's a news video coming on friday but slap the bell so you don't miss a thing and not to be redundant but if you made it this far you are a real one and you may have heard this before like and subscribe slap the bell to get notified tell a friend it's a vibe that gang out goodbye
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN what's missing from my list maybe something about emulation let me know in the comments for what it's worth this has been one of my harder efforts in terms of research and writing so if you think i did a good job don't forget to hit the like button and if you want more content around steam deck pc gaming and tech make sure to subscribe there's a news video coming on friday but slap the bell so you don't miss a thing and not to be redundant but if you made it this far you are a real one and you may have heard this before like and subscribe slap the bell to get notified tell a friend it's a vibe that gang out END_INTERACTION_TOKEN