It really good for people who don’t have, or want, a gaming pc. It gives them the small footprint of a handheld, without being locked to a console platform.
Who knew Valve could make a console so good it converts PC gamers.
Considering it’s cheaper than our equal to a gfx card, frugal me cannot convince myself to build another gaming pc. My 2080 ti will retire and my steam deck will be all i have.
My apartment is to small to have a desk with a PC so I just use my Steam Deck to game now :)
I don’t like how that article doesn’t have a source, but I found this article with a source from Valve.
I’m looking forward to the Legion Go S because at least that’s a lot more likely to be sold officially in my country than the Steam Deck will. Also I think that more choice for officially supported Steam OS devices is on a whole good for consumers.
Fuck I really gotta just pony up and get one don’t I 😂
If you dont care about high settings at high resolutions in AAA games, then its absolutely the best gaming option out there.
I do say people should be willing to tinker with the software if they want to get some more obscure, abandoned or emulated titles working though, thats the only caveat.
I’d advocate for getting one. Last year 70% of my gaming was on the deck, it really has shifted my attitude towards gaming.
That really does sound interesting
Buy a 64gb one, you can upgrade the storage pretty easily
The refurbished ones are really cheap during the sales.
I love mine. It’s great in handheld mode with Moonbeam/Sunshine streaming from my gaming desktop, and it shines in docked mode.
And it’s a very capable Linux desktop too if you want to go that route.
Yes
Not to undercut it, but the steam deck shows triple the actual game time for some of my games, as it probably counted the time the device was asleep with a game running, due to some glitch.
I never play my steamdeck hand held. But boy do I rip through my backlog with it hooked up to the TV.
That’s where I’m having trouble justifying it. I don’t really care for or do any handheld gaming, and if I was gonna leave it docked, why not just use my PC? If I want it on my TV I still have a Steam Link too. Glad to see it’s being shown as a viable platform, I just haven’t found a use case for it in my world.
That’s a good assessment. I originally got it because I was moving overseas and traveling a lot. It is fun on a plane and when I stay up at my parents for Christmas for a few days etc. considered it for a mobile music studio, but a laptop is superior. In your case I wouldn’t get it though.
I play in bed every night (with my steam deck)
If this is tracked just by game playtime, then this is underselling it too. Sunshine/Moonlight alone would probably add a substantial amount of time to this count.
This can’t be true, because I’m not using steam anymore/s
why
Stopped playing games and if I want to play some games I fire up my PS5.
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