Mondo and myself are back this week to discuss Valve’s new Steam Deck handheld. The value proposition seems immense. Additionally we talk Company of Heroes 3 (hype), Windows 11 and selling Steam items for wallet credit.
Other topics this week include: Yakuza Like a Dragon impressions, Nier sales and rumors about Dead Space’s future.
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The only reason I want this thing is for Portable Fallout. But if I have time to game then it will be at my computer.
Main problem of Steam Deck is it size. It weighs twice as much as Nintendo Switch. Even without case it is size of 13″ notebook. But you need also use case so device is even bigger
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Sp4ctr0 Spencer’s anti-Steam spamming is as painfully transparent as his Microsoft shilling.
He’s been banned from numerous sites and yet he keeps on reappearing with new username accounts.
This is just a size comparison – all data are from official websites. You can verify it at Valve, Dell and Sony web pages. Images are compared to single pixel to match size of each device
This is just size comparison. Steam Deck 4x larger than PSP and weight 3x more than console from Sony. Steam Deck is size of 13″ notebook
I mean it’s beefy but for a device to be this fully featured it’s hard to imagine how much more they could shrink it. There’s room to shrink it but not by a lot imo.
Either way, this is a niche device I think. This isn’t gonna push the 80+mln units Switch did and it’s not intended to.
I think the main issue is the storage and perhaps Proton.
I don’t see the issue here? games will look goon on that nice big screen
This is again the guy who thinks Microsoft is so amazing yet they can’t even make a clock work right in W11 dev build.
Main problem of Steam Deck is it size. It weighs twice as much as Nintendo Switch. Even without case it is size of 13″ notebook. But you need also use case so device is even bigger
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I really hope this suceeds, because this is the kind of product in which I would like to see an iterative approach, each new version improving size, weight, efficiency and performance. It looks good enough for this first release, but maybe we can get an even better one at every 2-3 years?
This. With the improvements of performance per watt in 2-3 years having my Steam Library portable with me and good battery life will be amazing.
1080p, going to a party, plug it into a wall socket and stream content to a TV. This is what actually makes sense for people without any computers at home.
Cloud is probably still more intelligent solution, but that has other constraints at the moment.
people without any computers at home should be shot on sight. In minecraft of course
Not only that but if it proves that there’s a genuine market for this it could open up for potential upgradable components in future models. Which I think it’s essential if they wish to make it standout even more from other competitive devices. Perhaps we’ll see iterations made by other manufacturers like Asus, EVGA, MSI, etc.
But that’s all wishful thinking. It’s best just to take it step by step and to see how the actual thing delivers several months after its release.
I reserved one.. let’s see if I actually end up getting one considering this awful chip shortage we’re in the middle of. I have high hopes for this thing, mainly as a homebrew handheld. Play all the PS1/PS2 classics, run CEMU and a bunch of other things. Who wouldn’t want a pocket PC like this?
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