You Shouldn’t Cook Your Steam Deck, Even On Thanksgiving

Slow information day? You betcha. But look, it’s Thanksgiving, and there’s a superb probability persons are cooking and consuming absolutely anything they’ll discover proper now. Please, if we will save only one individual from attempting to cook dinner their Steam Deck, then it is going to have been price it.

As reported by Dexerto, one Redditor found that leaving Valve’s implausible handheld PC on a scorching stovetop has the surprising results of making it get scorching. Still with me? And being made from plastic, scorching isn’t its favourite factor to be.

There’s one thing about that image that gloriously tells the whole story. But if further particulars had been wanted, MisterColeman wrote on the r/SteamDeck subreddit, “Don’t let your steam deck come into contact with a stove top.”

Looking intently, it doesn’t appear to be the insides have acquired an excessive amount of of a baking, with the true injury—clearly other than the case—being to these two rear-right bumpers. Although who is aware of which tiny wires (I no teknollegee) might need melted within the course of.

Even higher is that MisterColeman, unabashed, went to Steam Deck Support to ask if they might assist. In an replace he wrote, “Steam Deck Support said no help from them and that repair would cost more then buying a new Steam Deck. I think it’s just a new battery and backplate. Maybe not even a new battery. We’ll see.”

Come on Valve! What are you pondering, not recognising this as a design fault? How can this presumably invalidate the warrantee? While I’m positive there’s some small print about not overheating the system someplace, I guess it doesn’t particularly say, “Do not broil.”

For the avoidance of doubt, listed here are another stuff you shouldn’t do together with your Steam Deck:

• You shouldn’t steam your Steam Deck, regardless of how a lot it would appear to be it desires that.
• You shouldn’t use your Steam Deck as decking, regardless that it appears closely implied.
• You shouldn’t examine your Steam Deck to a Nintendo Switch.