10 things that are STILL MISSING from the Steam Deck!

The Steam Deck has been constantly improving for over a year at this point. Valve seems to have settled into a cadence of monthly stable updates, with multiple beta updates each week. And it’s been quite refreshing to see. But I miss the early days where new features were hitting the stable channel every week.

Back then, it felt like anything was possible and my most wanted feature was right around the corner.

Today, though? The Steam Deck has settled into a more or less a monthly update schedule aimed at stability and incremental improvements. So that’s why I am making this video: I want to explore some of the features that I think are still missing on Deck. And maybe we’ll see them going forward.

So here are 10 fixes and features I’m still waiting for on Deck.

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– Chapters –
00:00 – Introduction
00:45 – Official Plugin Support
01:40 – SteamOS 3 ISO
03:02 – Input Streaming
04:08 – Download Play
05:27 – YouTube/Twitch streaming
05:50 – Gameplay recording
06:05 – Streamline the USB Storage setup process
06:31 – USB File Transfer
07:35 – First-party game
08:47 – “Above Verified” compatibility tier

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