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The portable PC is having an effect all over Steam
The only time I ever used Steam’s Big Picture Mode, the UI Valve designed for when you’re playing your games on a TV from a sofa, was when I accidentally hit the button on Steam that launched it. Or in Steam VR, where it’s forced on the user. I didn’t use it on my living room PC, because it turns Steam into a dungeon that trapped you instead of easily letting you play your games. It won’t be long until it’s gone forever. Valve are going to replace it with theSteam Deck’s new UI.
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“Is the Steam Deck OS like the next step for Big Picture? In comparison to the UI that we have now everything just looks so outdated and I would love for most of the features to be translated to the awfully outdated big picture mode.”
They were lucky enough to ge an official response. Valve’s Austin P said: “Yes, we are replacing Big Picture with the new UI from Deck. We don’t have an ETA to share yet though.”
So, if you have any emotional attachment to what was once a brave experiment in blue, you might want to load it up and play around with it one last time. It’ll be gone at some point.
