I don't get why people either seethe or fellate it so much. Yeah it's a decent backlog clearer and a fun emulation toy, but that's about it. Am I missing something here?
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I don't get why people either seethe or fellate it so much. Yeah it's a decent backlog clearer and a fun emulation toy, but that's about it. Am I missing something here?
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I only know one guy who has Steam Deck and he said it's ok. So your presumption that people either hate or love it is wrong
It's the best handheld on the market (save maybe for ROG Ally). People like handhelds.
I never really "got" handhelds. Unless you have some particular circumstance where you need to be away from home for extended periods while also not actually doing anything, it's just way worse than playing on a proper computer (or console). It's nice to have something to do on the shitter but that's only a few minutes a day. The most comfortable, convenient place I can play games at is exactly where my computer is, and I get the best gaming experience possible from its hardware.
The SteamDeck is a really nice piece of hardware and I tried it out briefly, but it serves no purpose in my daily life. The best argument I can find for handhelds is for children, who often spend long periods in a vehicle while somebody else drives, and also often get dragged to various places where they aren't actually needed, just kept around to be watched over. An adult who uses public transportation often or one who's job mainly just requires them to be present in case something comes up are the other main use cases, but public transportation in the US is almost exclusively for poor people and barely even exists, and those sorts of jobs are rare of only because an employer will almost always try to find a task for their employees to do.
Different anon, but I use mine in a bunch of different spots throughout my house. Sometimes I'm doing stuff in the kitchen where I've got 30+ minutes of time to kill so I play a game on it to at least stay near the food. Or I'm watching stuff on my couch and playing a game while I do. I travel for work regularly too, so being able to emulate stuff and play a lot of my backlog wherever I am is pretty nice. It's a godsend when I'm in some shithole city for a couple weeks and really just want to sit in my hotel room. I bring a dock, cable, and external SSD too so I can watch my own movies and shows on the tv if I want.
I also find MKB the most comfortable, all those hours spent playing HoMM, Battle for Wesnoth, Civ and X-COM weren't for nothing. But some games are best played on a controller, and frankly I find handhelds more comfortable than controller+TV. So when I'm in a mood for some shitty JRPG or metroidvania I'll just laze around on my couch or in my bed with a handheld rather than stare at a TV. I think it has something to do with being able to move the screen rather than being forced to use a static TV.
To me, in terms of comfort:
MKB on a proper desktop > handheld > console > laptops (fricking hate those)
It's not really for being a handheld specifically, but ever since I got a job where I can WFH, I don't have the patience to sit at my desktop anymore. I guess it's because my brain has already associated my desk as a working space instead of a playing one, so now I've been using an Ally on the couch/bed, either to play games natively or to remote into my desktop instead.
It performs surprisingly well and lets me emulate all sorts of stuff. It's also very comfortable to play on imo. Basically does everything I ever wanted from a handheld.
It was good but missing features or was annoying some areas, then I got the OLED one, which fixed everything, 90hz, big display, bigger battery, feels 40% lighter, and does what I need it to do, the only con now is Valve hasn't released all the windows drivers for it, once that happens it will be perfect.
>feels 40% lighter
Is it really that noticeable? 670g vs. 640g: there's barely any difference on paper, but every single reviewer I've watched says it "feels" way lighter.
I'm shocked if that's accurate, I never looked it up, but I still underestimate how light it is picking it up being so use to how it was before.
Same. Valve took every tiny little nitpicking issue I had with the first model and improved on it.
>I'm shocked if that's accurate
Directly from Valve: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech/oled and https://www.steamdeck.com/en/tech/deck
>Is it really that noticeable?
I have both and no you really can't notice a difference in weight, it's only 5g lighter. He was probably putting a rubber protector over the first deck and isn't using it for the oled now or something. By far the best benefit about the oled is the way better battery life.
>5g
*5%
Holy MOLY
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cope decktroon
>webm
Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see how the Switch plays the other 13000 (thirteen thousand) PC games that Steam Deck supports (not even counting emulated games from other consoles). I mean, for a fair comparison, of course
It's an old webm at this point anyways. I was impressed when I booted up Demon's Souls, and saw it running at 60 when I applied the patch to unlock the framerate. I'll of course take more power for a Deck 2 but it definitely out performed my expectations.
Ackshually, 'eck verified games are sitting at 14.5k according to protondb. And that's just Steam games, you won't find old Ganker classics like OFF, Sengoku Rance or Monster Girl Quest on protondb.
>Monster Girl Quest
Nearly won 2011 GOTY. Got a higher result than Ghost Trick.
Yeah I don't have any respect for any sort of "gaming awards shows". Especially something for the annoying fricking weeb pedophiles that cry about being called furgays
c**t
it's proof that consoles are worthless locked down pieces of shit that rely on predatory ecosystems in order to make money
I can't wait for the Valve to kill snoy and shitbox for good when they perfect SteamOS and Big Picture Mode
>why people either seethe or fellate it so much
Where?
It's a handheld PC, a very good but niche thing. What's there to hate about it?
I disagree with the premise of your question.
You just need to take a look at the Deck Reddit. It's filled with people with buyers remorse trying to justify wasting their money on that brick.
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Imagine a handheld
Now imagine you can basically play everything off the bat and don't have to do stupid shit like jailbreaking it hoping the company that made it doesn't brick it and it doesn't use dumb nonstandard memory formats and doesn't sell at like a 400% markup because it's a handheld
That's the whole deal.
That's why people like the steamdeck.
Have you used the trackpads anon? They're a godsend for playing older PC games.
They still control like trying to move a mouse with your ass, but at least it's still a functional mouse.
It depends on the game for me. I played Sam and Max: Hit the Road a bit with it and it worked fine there. In something like Farland Story on PC-98 it wasn't the smoothest mouse implementation, and eventually using the track pad for the mouse would cause the game to lag but using the stick wouldn't? idk what the hell was up with that. Considering you can't remap your controls properly in that retroarch core I'm going to assume it was a problem with the core.
The last handheld I owned was the Gameboy Color. I didn't really think I'd enjoy the deck as much as I have. I got the deck because my PC is in the basement floor and I've got three kids. It's comfy to play a little on the couch while the little rascals watch tv or something.
I got my wife one when she got pregnant and she's gotten a ton of use out of it, especially while she was home bored all day near the end of the pregnancy.
I laugh at those saying deck is too big. My sister got my old deck (I got the oled) and she has been using it a lot for her yakuza, re and ff games kek
I don't think the size has been a problem for my wife either, and she's pretty small. She's actually been playing Elden Ring on it lately, after spending the last year watching gimmick challenge runs of it while she plays other games.
it's too fricking big
switch is already a large handheld, what the hell happened to 3ds and vita sized handhelds?
you could easily make a switch lite sized handheld that's runs circles around the deck if you go ARM
snapdragon 8 gen 3 and apple a17 are already faster when throttled to 50% due to no active cooling at 5-8W
the technology is there but PC games don't run on ARM and nobody wants to make current gen ARM handheld be it snoy or nintendo (or even MS)
The pocketable handhelds got killed off by mobile phones anon. plus they were ass to hold, and this is coming from someone who still loves the PSP
It needs to be large if you want it to be ergonomic, comfortable to hold. I had a PSP, 3DS and a Switch and they all felt to some extent uncomfortable to hold.
Do what makes you happy 🙂
The only things Tendies have as a valid reason to buy a Switch is portability and getting access to Nintendo's catalogue of games. The Deck threatens that safe zone, so they screech at it like baboons at an intruder.
I think it doesnt help nintendo first party games are overrated as frick and cant hide that anymore
These people only exist in your head
Nintendo Switch:
>lighter
>smaller
>has motion control support with joycons
>has better battery life (at least most models)
>usually has MUCH better battery life and performance while running its own native games
>piracy of cartridge games recently became easy if you don't care about online features
Being bigger than normal pocket size already disqualifies any sort of benefit of being smaller.
Depends on what you consider normal. Lite fits in some normal track pants pockets.
>lighter
>smaller
Only this is true. I'll add "easier to use": they made the Deck as idiot-proof as possible, but at the end of the day it's still a PC. Which means you have to tweak settings yourself and all of that.
>has motion control support with joycons
Steam Deck has that as well, and two touchpads, and four back buttons. Input customization is one of the Deck's strengths.
>has better battery life (at least most models)
Steam Deck has more variance because you can push it harder if you want. Deck OLED lasts from 2 to 12 hours, Switch OLED from 4 to 8 hours. If you run games at "Switch-like" settings (if you can even push settings that low), battery lasts longer on the Deck.
>usually has MUCH better battery life and performance while running its own native games
What do you mean with "its own native games"?
>piracy of cartridge games recently became easy
It's still way too clunky sadly, but it's a good start. But unless it's a hardware exploit, Nintendo can fix it later with an update. Also, I don't see how "piracy" (or price of games for that matter) is an advantage for the Switch anyway.
>Steam Deck has that as well
But controls are not detachable on the Steam Deck. You can use a joycon like a golf bat or something in some games like on Wii, you know?
>If you run games at "Switch-like" settings (if you can even push settings that low), battery lasts longer on the Deck.
Well, when it comes to games that have native PC versions you can, but see below.
>What do you mean with "its own native games"?
Running Switch games natively on the Switch vs emulating them on the Deck.
>It's still way too clunky sadly, but it's a good start. But unless it's a hardware exploit, Nintendo can fix it later with an update. Also, I don't see how "piracy" (or price of games for that matter) is an advantage for the Switch anyway.
It's not an advantage for the Switch, but piracy on the Deck vs non-patched Switch models has always been much easier and much more seamless. MIG Switch somewhat levels the playing field here, but yes, it's far from the ideal solution.
I agree that the Deck is a better device to have overall as in: there are more valid use cases for it. But if someone wants something more portable and only or mostly cares about Switch games, then there's really no good reason for them to get a Deck instead.
True, but it's still not pocketable so is in the same weight and size category, doesn't come with its own protective case and is much more fragile particularly the sticks, so I wouldn't say it's a significant difference
>>has motion control support
So does the deck if you want it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3CheZC-4_o
>>has better battery life (at least most models)
has MUCH better battery life and performance while running its own native games
It doesn't. Even the base deck has better battery life and efficiency than the switch, the only reason it doesn't seem that way is because it can play more demanding games at more demanding settings. They've done tests on this running witcher 3 at roughly equivalent settings and the deck lasted longer. Same comparing the oled equivalents. Not sure how long the switch will last while idling without a game running, but I've seen the deck oled last over 12 hours playing VNs.
of cartridge games recently became easy if you don't care about online features
Piracy will always be easier on PC
it plays games
The interesting thing about it is that the chip it uses is extremely power-efficient at low TDPs. More power-efficient than any laptop chip from Intel or AMD. It's a huge fricking shame that Valve gatekeeps it and probably has some exclusivity deal with AMD in regards to it, because if someone made a laptop (a small one like 11" is fine by me) with Steam Deck specs and priced it the same or let's say $50 more, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I like playing visual novels on the deck. Also a life saver for long trips
flop
Because it is LITERALLY the best handheld ever made. It's what consoles always should've been if this industry wasn't full of israelites.
I'm so glad there's more choices than nintendo and chinkshit now
>Yeah it's a decent backlog clearer and a fun emulation toy, but that's about it. Am I missing something here?
It's a computer. You can basically do whatever you want with it, within the limitations imposed by the operating system and the hardware. Is it difficult to understand something like that?
Maybe you're used to consoles where the corporation that sold you the hardware prevents you from using it freely, imposing various artificial and arbitrary restrictions, and you don't understand what a computer can be used for?
The PS5 was hacked recently and overnight people discovered that the console can be used for things like playing Bloodbourne at 120fps and various other applications beneficial to the user that Sony purposely won't allow you to for strategic reasons.
With a computer (Steam Deck included), this kind of top-down limitation simply doesn't exist.