Huge Image, the mode that converts Steam’s consumer interface right into a extra console-like design higher suited to TVs and controllers than screens and mice, will not be lengthy for this world. In accordance with austinp_valve, a Valve worker posting on the Steam group boards, the plan is for the brand new UI from the just-announced Steam Deck handheld PC to switch Huge Image mode on the desktop model of Steam as nicely.
Valve introduced Huge Image mode in 2011 and launched it the next 12 months. The mode shaped the premise of the UI for SteamOS, the model of Linux that shipped on console-style gadgets that have been a part of Valve’s ill-fated Steam Machine challenge. With the Steam Deck operating an all-new model of the working system known as SteamOS 3.0, it is smart that the redesigned UI would make its manner again to the PC shopper — particularly since Huge Image has felt outdated for fairly a while.
Valve isn’t giving an ETA for when the brand new UI will make its method to current PCs. The Steam Deck is about to start out transport in December, although the extent of demand has meant that new orders are being pushed out to halfway by way of subsequent 12 months.
