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This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve\u2019s popular handheld, Avowed<\/a> and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth<\/a> being two examples, it\u2019s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation. Naturally, poor performance\u2026<\/p>\n

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This past February the Steam Deck celebrated its third birthday. And based on the rocky performance of some fairly recent AAA games on Valve\u2019s popular handheld, Avowed and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth being two examples, it\u2019s currently going through a bit of a terrible threes kinda situation. 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