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Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by malfist »

kawsper wrote: post #25
seneca wrote: post #16

Valve has a pretty bad track record with hardware, do they not? I'm not very aware of this industry, but the vague impress I have is that they've tried this a couple of different ways and it hasn't gone well for them. I'm curious why they would make this play again.

They have a tendency to drop their hardware quite early - I had a Steam Link so I could play computer games on my television, it works really great.

Steam link and the controllers were great. Too bad they dropped support for them so quickly. Went looking to replace one that finally broke down and found you couldn't buy them anymore.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by 63 »

Sort of an unfortunate name since it's so similar to "Stream Deck." I imagine there might be some confusion between the two if this takes off.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by [deleted] »

mankyd wrote: post #36

What os does it run? And the more important follow up: what games can it therefore run? I _assume_ it's linux, but that must limit the games to protondb and linux compatible games which, speaking from a lot of experience, misses quite a few.

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Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by ketzo »

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 becomes “what percentage of current PC gamers are motivated to shell out $400 to play on the train?”

Frankly, I feel like it’s probably a decent number of people? Enough for this product to do okay, if not change the whole market. But people have been very confidently incorrect about almost every iteration of mobile gaming in the past. I guess we’ll see.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by Majestic121 »

Shadonototro wrote: post #31
paxys wrote: post #23

Tech specs – https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech 800p resolution is a bit disappointing, but I guess that's the only way to get a good frame rate without a massive power-hungry GPU.

7", bigger resolution would be useless, and a waste of ressources tbh, it's a portable console, i'd rather have better FPS and better battery life than higher resolution with lower FPS

You can plug it to a bigger screen, so a bigger resolution could be useful

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by dillon »

mankyd wrote: post #36

What os does it run? And the more important follow up: what games can it therefore run? I _assume_ it's linux, but that must limit the games to protondb and linux compatible games which, speaking from a lot of experience, misses quite a few.

If you click to the site and go to the Software tab it talks about it being SteamOS with Proton etc.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by justinsaccount »

have_faith wrote: post #7

> Deck What an uninspiring name! (with unfortunate mispronunciations). Looks very interesting though, price point (starting at £349) seems very competitive.

The closest competitor to this is called the switch. Other competing products are called a station and a box.

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by NegativeLatency »

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…

USB 2 on a mobile device might be for limiting power consumption?

Re: Valve Steam Deck

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Post by madpata »

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.

1€ ~= 1.18$ US So, probably not just a conversion thing
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