Yep, many people already have a decent collection of games on Steam, but haven't touched a lot of them as someone above said. Remember the steam sales when you just bought things on a whim? All just to bolster the game collection. I've barely touched most of my steam library, but if I could play on a handheld in the living room whilst gf is watching TV, then yes, I could see myself doing this. So after the initial cost of the deck, there are no further costs of buying games.
Valve - Steam Deck
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Yep, many people already have a decent collection of games on Steam, but haven't touched a lot of them as someone above said. Remember the steam sales when you just bought things on a whim? All just to bolster the game collection. I've barely touched most of my steam library, but if I could play on a handheld in the living room whilst gf is watching TV, then yes, I could see myself doing this. So after the initial cost of the deck, there are no further costs of buying games.
Caporegime
Where does it tell you that?
Caporegime
Thanks.
I did stick an order in before i went to bed at midnight but the page still says Q2 so that's like a year away. Plenty of time to chew on this then.
Caporegime
I think it's cheap. I think it's about 20% less than what they could have charged personally.
It's not fair comparing to a Switch because the Switch is using a 5 year old+ tech and it is still £300.
It's not fair comparing to a Switch because the Switch is using a 5 year old+ tech and it is still £300.
Soldato
^ To be fair; judging by the shipping dates for this; the tech will be a year old before it even gets to the consumer! I do fancy one but like others I suspect it will be in a drawer after a week of use.
The Switch can also be sold at cost or at a loss as you’re stuck buying very expensive licensed games.
With the Steam Deck you don’t have to give Valve another penny, and even if you buy only from steam the games are orders of magnitude cheaper than on the Switch for the same game.
Caporegime
I realise that, I wrote that knowing that fact.
But it still doesn't change the fact that the switch is a 5 year old tech for £300 at the moment and not going to change for the next 12 months either.
I love my steam link and controller, although I understand they were poor sellers until practically given away. I ordered a 256gb last night.
Soldato
Caporegime
One thing I wished they had done is have 2 USB-C ports, one at the top and one at the bottom. So when it is docked, it plugs straight into the dock. Since it has just the USB-C socket at the top, then it needs a cable. So the dock is more like a dongle.
Plug it in upside down.
Caporegime
good thinking Batman!
If you want to play on a monitor, an actual PC is what you want.
Associate
It's gonna absolutely rock. This is a real game changer. Time to ditch Microsoft and Nintendo fully when this thing hits.
The Steam Deck is going to run SteamOS which is based on Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. This is great as Arch is a really snappy distro to begin with, and Plasma is a really efficient desktop environment. Valve have already been responsible for the growing popularity of gaming on Linux, I feel the next few years are going to be very very interesting.
The Steam Deck is going to run SteamOS which is based on Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. This is great as Arch is a really snappy distro to begin with, and Plasma is a really efficient desktop environment. Valve have already been responsible for the growing popularity of gaming on Linux, I feel the next few years are going to be very very interesting.
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Yeah, the more I think about this the more I'm keen tbh. I hope my delivery date gets brought forward!
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What are you going to play on this? That isn't already on a slick eco system like Nintendo?
This is a terrible idea and gaming laptops haven't went smaller than 13-15" for a reason.
Geforce experience is available for tablets. I honestly can't see why you would use this.
Razer even have the kishi or whatever their controller is for Android to make it into a handheld.
This is a terrible idea and gaming laptops haven't went smaller than 13-15" for a reason.
Geforce experience is available for tablets. I honestly can't see why you would use this.
Razer even have the kishi or whatever their controller is for Android to make it into a handheld.