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Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by ketzo »

caslon wrote: post #83
ketzo wrote: post #44

There’s obviously a lot of people who like playing games in a more mobile format, as evidenced by the huge popularity of the Switch Lite / mobile gaming. Giving the PC games market access to that form factor seems, on its face, like an extremely good move. But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for one. Pretty cool piece of tech, but didn’t exactly start a revolution. I guess the question becom…

You have to consider that PC hardware is currently spiraling out of control in terms of price, and $400 for the specs it has presently is a fairly decent buy even if you don't care about the form factor.

That’s a really good point, viewing this as an accessibly-priced entry into PC gaming makes it even more attractive.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by jvzr »

CyberShadow wrote: post #85
caslon wrote: post #38

First impressions: Really good hardware for the price. They fixed the worst thing about SteamOS: It's now got an Arch base. They're definitely overcharging for storage, but I imagine it'll be easy enough to modify one, so it probably doesn't matter much. Why is any company having more USB-2 slots than USB-3 these days? Going with a relatively low resolution compared to modern ones is actually a surprisingly smart mov…

By Arch, do you mean Arch Linux? According to https://www.game-debate.com/news/25482/valve-counts-to-3-ste... , it seems to be based on Debian 9.

They specifically mention Arch Linux (with KDE Plasma desktop) in the software specs

SteamOS 2 was Debian-based

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by jamesfmilne »

moralestapia wrote: post #90

It would be AMAZING if you could run some linux distro on this, somehow. Edit: I mean, a linux you could control, ssh into it, install stuff etc... Edit 2: Wow! Apparently, you can do all of this out of the box.

It's already running Linux, in the guise of SteamOS.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by caslon »

moralestapia wrote: post #90

It would be AMAZING if you could run some linux distro on this, somehow. Edit: I mean, a linux you could control, ssh into it, install stuff etc... Edit 2: Wow! Apparently, you can do all of this out of the box.

It's...just a Linux PC, running a Linux distribution (SteamOS 3, Arch-based). It says that on the site.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by cnasc »

echelon wrote: post #54

This looks like it will trounce the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo doesn't even have new hardware in the pipeline other than an iterative OLED screen. Now that Nintendo depends on a single portable console, is there a risk that they'll go the way of Sega?

IMO Sega’s problem was started by having a confusing lineup of too many products. Then they fumbled the US Saturn launch and faced stiffer competition than before. Then the Dreamcast was a victim of the PS2 _also_ being a DVD player, which made it a much more compelling option in its early days.

In this case, Nintendo has a large and dedicated fanbase, hardware that they (IIRC) sell at a profit, and a truly enormous warchest. They’ll be fine.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by fermentation »

At a cursory glance this thing seems to be well-equipped to handle emulation. There are a lot of (sometimes sketchy) portable emulation devices on the market but most are pretty underpowered. This seems significantly more powerful (at a higher price point of course).

I'm curious if more folks interested in portable emulation will go for this or wait for an FPGA-based Analogue Pocket.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by levital »

Forbo wrote: post #27
Shadonototro wrote: post #13

Finally a linux gaming console Now valve, for the love of god, PUSH NATIVE LINUX GAMING, proton only as a way to supplement the library.. Reduce your steam tax for the companies that provide a native linux build I will not buy this if your main selling point is "proton" As for the price, 419€.. very bad marketing, 399€ would have been perfect... you got greedy for 20€, that'll hurt sales

It looks like it is $399 USD, so the price point may mostly be a conversion thing. Edit: Just looked up the conversion rate, right now 399 USD is 288 GBP? Weird. The mid tier is 529 USD, so something like 382 GBP. Upper tier is 649 USD, or 468 GBP.

$399US is ~338€ though. Even adding in 19% VAT we'd come out at a nice round 400€, so I don't really understand the 419€, which is just a weird number from a marketing perspective as well.

That we're getting overcharged on this side of the Atlantic isn't new though, but happens with basically everything.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by calgoo »

ketzo wrote: post #44

There’s obviously a lot of people who like playing games in a more mobile format, as evidenced by the huge popularity of the Switch Lite / mobile gaming. Giving the PC games market access to that form factor seems, on its face, like an extremely good move. But we’ve seen products like this before — the NVIDIA Shield, for one. Pretty cool piece of tech, but didn’t exactly start a revolution. I guess the question becom…

It’s more less the same price as Nintendo switch and the switch is limited to expensive Nintendo games. Now if you are a fan of Nintendo games, great! But if you are a of gamer then this steam deck sound like a better idea!
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