Handheld consoles and cloud gaming services like GeForce Now can be a great pair if all parties involved come together and try to provide the best possible experience. It is true that their performance is in some cases more than enough to offer a satisfactory gaming experience even for some fairly recent triple A, as we saw with Steam Deck and Cyberpunk 2077. However, others, such as the Logitech G , were designed specifically with respect to offering a portable gaming experience for these services.

Moving computing requirements to the cloud, as GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud have done, has ended the need for high-performance hardware and a specific architecture to enjoy certain games. It’s true that virtually all platforms have a large catalog of titles that can run natively on their devices, yes, but we’re not kidding, many of the most interesting releases come only on Windows and require minimal hardware to run. with some ease, that is, without the system fans seeming to levitate the computer several centimeters above the table.

It is true that in this respect users already have the possibility to access these services through their smartphones and tablets and that devices such as the Razer Kishi 2 allow them to enjoy on their mobile phones the control that we usually have on portable consoles. However, we cannot ignore that in terms of design, the experience provided by a portable console built as such is unmatched.

That’s why we’ve been pointing out all the possibilities that the pairing of these services and Valve’s console has for a long time. However, the bad part is that the user experience has not been optimized and as a result, users are reporting that using GeForce Now on Steam Deck is not as smooth and comfortable as it should be.

However, and as we can read in Wccftech, this will change in the future, as NVIDIA and Valve are studying ways to improve the experience of accessing GeForce Now from Steam Deck. There are no specific dates or plans at this point, or at least they haven’t been released, but the effort seems solid. It remains to be seen whether this will materialize in a native GeForce Now app for Steam Deck, which would probably be the best solution, or in an optimization of the console’s operating system to improve the use of the NVIDIA service.