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The Steam Deck is the most popular handheld gaming PC, and no doubt a lot of you own one already. It's also far from the most powerful handheld on the market, meaning devs have to get optimisation just right to allow the Deck to maintain 60 or even 30 fps. Now, Valve is letting everyone see exactly how well those optimisations are made by listing average Steam Deck frame rate data on game store pages.

Valve explains that this applies to any game that's been tested for Steam Deck compatibility, not just Verified ones. It applies to 'Verified', 'Playable', and 'Unsupported' ones. Apparently that means thousands of games right now.

The data is based on what different users have opted in to provide, which, despite only being for opt-inners, presumably still gives a big sample size.…