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Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by Eumenes »

jeroenhd wrote: post #89
Eumenes wrote: post #69

Is this supposed to challenge the switch? Personally, as a lifelong PC gamer, I've never been able to get into handheld/mobile stuff, or even consoles - its not even the screen size, but the controls and overall experience. I want to be upright in a chair, with a full keyboard + mouse in front of me. I like to use my dual screens to research stuff in downtime or check on settings/optimizations. Is this primarily used…

You can play switch games on the Deck but I wouldn't call it a Switch competitor. The Switch is targeted at family gaming with colorful multiplayer games and inoffensive titles. The Deck is just a handheld console. It's a successor to the PSP more than it's a competitor to anything else. The fact it's implemented as a laptop with a weird keyboard makes it very flexible, so things like emulation become easily availabl…

I see, appreciate the breakdown. I could see this being popular with upcoming CS2 and similar games. The price tag seems a bit steep though. But I guess they need to make money on the hardware.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by JKCalhoun »

fendy3002 wrote: post #44
barney54 wrote: post #9

For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.

Screen is kinda small for newer, high res games but still enjoyable. More suitable to PS2 1024x968 era so perfect for emulator PS2 and earlier. For indies or 2d like stardew it'll be no problem. Form factor is good, no problem so far with controller position. Rather big and rather heavy, not as portable as psp or nds but definitely portable. Battery lasts only 2 hours-ish for AAA games though, much longer for lower s…

> Screen is kinda small for newer, high res games but still enjoyable.

Agree. When rewriting an older game for Steam I ended up in-biggening the artwork a touch to look good on the Steam Deck. Of course the game now looks positively Duplo on a normal PC monitor now.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by stefandesu »

xyproto wrote: post #63
cynicalsecurity wrote: post #42

Which also means they are running on Linux. This is mind-blowing.

Arch Linux, btw

Does this make a difference? If I were to build a gaming PC based on Linux and Proton, would I need an Arch based distro to get that ~80% coverage?

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by haunter »

kibwen wrote: post #54
cynicalsecurity wrote: post #42

Which also means they are running on Linux. This is mind-blowing.

From a user's perspective they're running on Linux, though from the games' perspective they're running on Windows, thanks to Proton (based on Wine).

See the famous "Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux" article https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by gpderetta »

SteveNuts wrote: post #28
cloverich wrote: post #20

Though I've long since given up on my gaming days, I purchased a Steam deck last month, mostly out of impulse. I'm frankly astonished at the amount of playable games, and also the amount of quality indie games out there. I spent $50 picking on-sale indies and quickly had a backlog. Its been more enjoyable (and surprisingly comfortable) than I expected too. I'm definitely in the very casual crowd at this point, gaming…

I mostly play managemen/city builder style games like Cities Skylines or Factorio. Have you tried any of those types of games and if so what's been your experience?

I have played Stellaris and Oxygen Not Included and they work surprisingly well.

As noted elsethread, lot of pause-action-unpause though.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by calini »

fendy3002 wrote: post #64
ekianjo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No idea about such stats, but the ROG Ally has several problems: - Windows as the key interface - very poor battery life (even worse than the Deck!) - no trackpads so this limits what you can ever play with it to games made for gamepads - none of the SteamOS goodness

Compared with deck, no suspend continue. And I read that the button can stuck and it can get hot.

Both consoles get about as hot, but yeah, no good Sleep option in Windows is a shame.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by RMPR »

unhammer wrote: post #76

Still not available in Norway :(

Even if it is was available in Norway, it'd probably be cheaper to order it from abroad anyway. I was baffled by how expensive "niche" gadgets are here. For example the Kinesis advantage 360 is 8k NOK[0] compared to $479 in the US, so it was actually less expensive to order from there and pay the customs than to get in locally. This was last December, before the NOK value fell off a cliff.

0: https://www.sono.no/kontormobler/ergonomisk-kontortilbehor/e...

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by jeroenhd »

ekianjo wrote: post #43
KingOfCoders wrote: post #38

Has someone sold ther Steam Deck for a ROG Ally? Why? Has it the same compatibility?

No idea about such stats, but the ROG Ally has several problems: - Windows as the key interface - very poor battery life (even worse than the Deck!) - no trackpads so this limits what you can ever play with it to games made for gamepads - none of the SteamOS goodness

Surely the lack of SteamOS could be compensated by launching Steam in big picture mode? Or even installing HoloISO if they support the device?

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by byhemechi »

pbmonster wrote: post #73
byhemechi wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i doubt the steam deck has enough ram to handle cities skylines, i pretty frequently hit 20 gb on larger populations

That's with mods, right? If you play vanilla, the Deck's 16GByte should be plenty. Most cities will hit the asset limit long before needing this much RAM.

That's fair, but i'd argue that mods are a pretty essential part of the game for most people
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