After having to replace a second joystick in six months, I'm just about ready to dump my Switch Lite for something not made out of mud by a company that doesn't really care about hardware.
Valve Steam Deck
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#852After having to replace a second joystick in six months, I'm just about ready to dump my Switch Lite for something not made out of mud by a company that doesn't really care about hardware.
Ah, sorry to hear that. I had assumed the Lite was partly motivated by fixing the terrible joycon situation.
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#853There’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…
I for one own a switch and has been waiting for a better quality product, I've also been looking to get a desktop gaming PC but the price + the space it takes has been putting me off for a long time. So this steam deck is an insta buy for me.
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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.
I wonder if they're selling at a loss? Valve can afford it, plus it'd be no different than Sony/Nintendo/etc subsidizing hardware since they make most of their profits from software sales. Only difference is that, unlike traditional game companies, this Steam Deck thing isn't a walled garden. But of course, Steam has a near monopoly on PC gaming so it's unlikely that'll be a problem for them.
I would bet that they do sell at a loss. There's an interview with Gabe[1] in which he keeps repeating that the price point was painful. He is very vague about it but he also mentions some calculus like "they'd have to sell 8 games to be profitable". So I have no doubt they're doing it like the consoles do it.
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#855After having to replace a second joystick in six months, I'm just about ready to dump my Switch Lite for something not made out of mud by a company that doesn't really care about hardware.
Ah, sorry to hear that. I had assumed the Lite was partly motivated by fixing the terrible joycon situation.
Nope, it's literally the same joystick. The exact same part that breaks like crazy in Joy-Cons.
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Apparently they are working with anti-cheat makers to get those games working on Linux before release? This honestly seems like the best news for Linux gaming... ever.
Source for this? I don’t see how this is possible.
In this video focused on developers (https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Q_C5KVJbUw at 5:54) they mention they are working with BattlEye and EAC to get it working prior to Steam Deck release.
In my experience EAC was the reason that many games that were otherwise perfectly fine became broken because of anti cheat. This should make a huge difference.
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#857Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently they are working with anti-cheat makers to get those games working on Linux before release? This honestly seems like the best news for Linux gaming... ever.
Source for this? I don’t see how this is possible.
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#858Can we all agree that none of these stack up to what the PSP was in it's day?
Not in performance of course. But the form factor and the experience.
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#859I hope once this device become a hit, dev would start looking at Linux(or at least Steam OS 3) as a viable market and maybe optimize for them.
I am actually excited for what this would mean for Linux gaming
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#860Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a neat piece of hardware, but I have a hard time believing it will be any more than a fad. Who is this for? Serious PC gamers? Why not just play on the "real" PC they already have, with the super-expensive monitor, graphics card, and input devices they carefully assembled? Casual gamers that don't care so much about those things and want to play meatier games on the go? Why wouldn't they just buy a Switch (which…
I game casually and did not buy a switch, simply because I do not want to plonk $300 on a single-use device that does a marginal job at gaming (mediocre graphics, expensive games). Steam Deck is a slightly more expensive gaming device, but it does so much more. Previous attempts at these palm sized gaming PC failed because they were half assed, software and hardware wise. Steam deck isn’t.
I never saw the switch as a device for games in general. It is mostly the vessel for the next iteration of Nintendo-exclusive games. Those games don’t need super fancy hardware because the point of the games isn’t to show you the latest graphics.
The switch isn’t “just a handheld games console like any other.” It is “this thing you must buy to play the latest mario/Zelda/animal crossing game.” Obviously if you aren’t interested in those games there isn’t so much of a point.