That Steam Deck is a huge success from Valve It’s something that’s virtually unquestionable at this point. Whether we appreciate the device for its capabilities and features, or focus on what it offered for the portable console market, which was practically moribund until its arrival. Not to mention other secondary aspects, such as its important contribution to improving the number of Linux as a platform more than suitable, even recommended for gaming.

The emergence of the portable console market comes with the launch of Steam Deck It was also quite varied. Instead of trying to exactly replicate the formula designed by Valve’s console to the millimeter, manufacturers have brought different designs to the market, which therefore adapt to different preferences. From “beasts” with exceptional performance to much more modest performance models that in return offer sensational autonomy.

So, They all have their strengths and weaknesses., although all manufacturers are trying to improve their models as part of their own value proposition, which undoubtedly translates into an increasingly favorable situation for users. Heck, if they told us we’d be experiencing a similar situation around portable consoles three years ago, it would have been almost impossible to believe. And yet it’s happening right now, and it looks like we’ll have more good news on that front soon.

As discovered and published by leaker Bradley Lynch, Valve is working on bringing Android to the Steam Decksomething that will be done based on emulation, more specifically using a popular emulator Waydroid to your laptop. If you don’t know, Waydroid is an Android emulator for Linux, so it fits quite naturally on the console if we use it with SteamOS or other customized distributions aimed specifically at the laptop market.

How do you know, Steam Deck is compatible with Linux and Windows, but not Android, so the huge selection of games specific to Google’s operating system is out of reach. However, implementing an emulator like Waydroid, optimized to offer performance, reliability and great integration into SteamOS, would make a big difference in this sense, as from then on the Steam Deck would offer compatibility with a much larger volume of games.