Yesterday noticed the star-festooned extravaganza that was the fortieth annual Golden Joystick awards (opens in new tab). Unsurprisingly when it got here to the software program facet, Elden Ring walked off with an armful of gongs, however the perfect {hardware} award went to Valve and the Steam Deck (opens in new tab). The award was accepted by Gabe Newell, and in doing so he made a degree about one thing all of us take without any consideration in our marvel machines.
“On behalf of everybody at Valve, I want to say thanks for giving Steam Deck the Golden Joystick award for greatest gaming {hardware},” stated Newell. “So on my PC I’ve an AMD CPU, a Nvidia GPU, the PC’s from Falcon Northwest, I’ve a Corsair mouse, I’ve a Logitech keyboard, I’ve a Samsung monitor…
“And it is that interoperability, that compatibility, that openness that basically permits merchandise like Steam Deck.”
Falcon Northwest is an American firm that builds fairly extraordinary customized PCs (opens in new tab). It’s important to marvel who obtained the construct order with the shopper identify “Gabe Newell” on the prime, what a day that will have been.
Newell went on to reference Remaining Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida’s acceptance speech eventually 12 months’s Golden Joysticks, when the MMO (which Newell performs “a ton” of (opens in new tab)) scooped up the Greatest Ongoing Recreation prize.
“However extra importantly I used to be struck listening to Yoshi P’s acceptance speech final 12 months about his emphasis on group and I actually wish to echo it,” stated Newell. “If it weren’t attainable, if we did not have that gaming group behind us driving all the trade ahead, merchandise like Steam Deck would not be attainable. So as well as I might actually like to just accept this award on behalf of the gaming group.”
There we’re then: all of the credit score for Steam Deck goes to you. Gabe’s been extra seen just lately, which is sweet to see: you’ll be able to watch him delivering Steam Decks and recalling his days as a telegram boy (opens in new tab), and even calling in favours by way of potato telephones (opens in new tab).
This is the full checklist of winners on the 2022 Golden Joysticks (opens in new tab) and, in the event you do not wish to watch the total present, listed below are useful clips of the winners’ acceptance speeches (opens in new tab).
