Valve is making Steam retailer pages wider as a part of a brand new replace rolling out as we speak. With the modifications, “many pages” will probably be widened from “940 pixels to now 1200 pixels,” Valve says. The corporate picked that 1200 pixels quantity as a result of it discovered that it “felt like stability the place we will present extra content material on display with out overwhelming the web page and making it onerous to navigate.”
In case your browser or shopper window is narrower than 1200 pixels, Valve says that “Steam retailer pages are designed to shrink appropriately to suit properly” and that the pages adapt “to suit on tablets, Steam Decks, and cell gadgets.” Valve says it’s even examined the modifications “on a tiny previous iPod that somebody had laying round,” the place “it principally works, however issues get fairly small.”
The modifications comply with Valve’s enhancements to the Steam Trailer Participant for retailer pages that it launched in July, which embody a extra adaptable UI and reprocessing movies to work higher with the brand new participant.