An early Steam Deck prototype was called the “Ugly Baby”
Steam Deck‘s early prototypes was apparently called the “Ugly Baby” according to a Valve developer.In an interview with IGN‘s Ryan McCaffrey, Gabe Newell and Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais discussed the Steam Deck and revealed some of the other names the handheld device originally had.Some early names were things like “Steam Buddy” and “Steam Pal” as Newell said in the interview, while Griffais revealed that the Steam Deck had some “pretty terrifying prototypes” so the team “gave them appropriate names”.“Like Ugly Baby, and things like that.