Why do people keep buying the SteamDeck it's fricking huge and underpowered.
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Why do people keep buying the steamdeck it's fricking huge and underpowered.
Why do people keep buying the SteamDeck it's fricking huge and underpowered.
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Because the people who bought an SD in the first place never leave their homes.
Why did you buy a Switch when all you do is posting furry porn 24/7 on Ganker?
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So they can play their pc whike laying down for an hour. Can't wait for homiedeck to post his pic.
You don't need a SteamDeck to do that bro.
>huge
Ergonomics
>underpowered
Lol. But Nintendo using iPhone 6 hardware for 6 years isn't an issue right?
>craning your neck to look at a TV or some nerd monitor arm setup
Cringe af
Cyberpunk actually runs on Deck at a stable 40fps THOUGH. The problem with the Deck is that everything will run on it but the technology didn't exist for 60fps handheld gaming until the Z1 extreme or the other chip like it that chinkhelds use, and even that can't actually maintain 60 without sacrifices and routinely drops to the 50s or 40s in Elden Ring and Horizon Zero Dawn for example.
Better battery technology is probably at minimum 5 years away from being realized, maybe a decade away from being sold for consumer devices and cheap enough to justify. AMD's low power processors are probably 2 gens away from drawing significantly less power than they already do.
>craning your neck to look at a TV or some nerd monitor arm setup
dis homie neva herd ofa laptop or tablet
>gaming on a tablet
Lmao
>laptop
Enjoy your second degree burns resting that thing on any part of your body moron
>Nerd monitor armor setup
>Laptop or tablet
b***h please, imagine having some lame setup where you have to hold a tablet up Infront of you, use a track pad, mouse or keyboard. Or have a warm ass laptop overheat on your lap.
Pic related is the ultimate gaming set up. No mouse, no keyboards, no lame monitor stands, bezels, etc. Just you, and your game.
What happened to handheld gaming? I loved my DS but the Switch isn't a real handheld if it can't fit in my pocket and be turned off/on quickly. These things are too fricking big.
Frick you and your pocket. The pocket format necessitates dogshit ergonomics like psp and ds. Even when I was 19 my fingers were hurting after 2-3 hours with the psp, meanwhile now I'm 35 and have no issues after playing on the deck for eight hours.
You must be one fat ass dude. If it doesn't go in pocket just play on a laptop moron. You're probably one of those morons with a giant phone.
Stop projecting mutt, I have been a lanklet my whole life.
the deck is worse than all of em homosexual
How did you manage to enter the captcha while being this moronic?
>Frick you and your pocket. The pocket format necessitates dogshit ergonomics like psp and ds. Even when I was 19 my fingers were hurting after 2-3 hours with the psp, meanwhile now I'm 35 and have no issues after playing on the deck for eight hours.
I grew up with controllers without grips, the way you are supposed to hold them is not really different than controllers with grips. You still keep the same amount of distance between your fingers / thumbs and the controls.
People who hate gripless handhelds all make the same mistake, they jam their palms up against the side since that is what they do with modern controllers whose grips dictate the distance with physical space. When I play my Switch with standard joycons the bottom corners are not in my palms, they are held in place where the base of my ring / pinky and ring finger meet my hands. When I play my SP/DS/SNES the device is pinched between my middle/ring fingers and my thumbs. In both cases my fingers are stretched when manipulating the controls, not clawed and asking for cramps.
I have no problem with grips, in fact I think the grips on my Deck are wonderfully designed and help to mitigate the higher weight but like the Anon you are replying too, I would like to see some smaller devices like a Vita sized Switch.
Black person I grew up with nes and genesis, I had a wounded thumb because the genesis dpad was a piece of shit that broke off and left me playing with the sharp stump covered in tape.
Shit controllers are shit controllers, and the 3ds was almost nes tier while the psp was barely tolerable shit.
It ain't as much about the grip as it is about the button distances and trigger feel - somehow psp had the worst triggers, even worse than the genesis r button. And the analog nub was awkward af. 3ds had the satanic cnub and shitty main buttons, but the triggers were ok.
Pretty much moved to the realm of chinkhelds. It's nice though. Shit like the retroid flip has a clamshell design, still fits in your pocket, doesn't need a fricking screen protector.
Biggest issue itt has is the initial batch used garbage chink plastic and the hinges crack (though there aren't reports of them actually having any issues, just the hinge plastic cracking). Mine's fine 3 months in though.
But yeah, on the whole "handheld" is dead and buried. Everyone carries a phone and 90% of the time they'll just emulate on it if they want. It only costs $20 for a decent quality plug-in controller for it.
>muh pocket
Black person you must be 10 years old if you have room in your pockets for a handheld after phone, headphone case, wallet and keys. That's not even including shit you'd probably have like a pocket knife, smokes, whatever. Just the bare minimum for a working adult.
>smokes in pocket
jesus christ are you 12
>he doesn't smoke
lmao look at this underageb&
no self respecting cig head keeps them in their fricking pocket, you disgusting neanderthal
Ok, I'll bite - where? Because for fifteen years now I have used either my shirt or jacket pockets.
wrap your foreskin around it you fricking dunce
You keep them in your valets pocket moron
I would have a backpack for stuff like wallet and keys and headphones or I would leave them in the car if I was on an outing
>but then why don't you put your DS in your backpack?
For the same reason you wouldn't put your phone in your backpack every time. It's a hassle. I would bring my DS to conventions or Pokemon tournaments and being able to quickly put it away for a minute in my pocket is real nice. Or like when I would switch trains. The flat buttons and clamshell design made it durable as well.
On the contrary, the Switch is fragile. It needs its own case otherwise the joysticks and screen get damaged. Startup time takes 20 seconds too long and the battery lasts like 2 hours. So if you think sleep mode is fine but then get distracted by something then your switch is dead. Unlike the DS sleep mode which would last days. It's not as easy to take out like a phone, so then I'm tempted to use my phone instead. Of course phones have gotten a lot better now so it's a tough competition, but it doesn't help that gaming "handhelds" have gotten worse. You might think I'm being picky but these subtle inconveniences suck out all the magic.
tl;dr You just don't get it and you never will
honestly my s23 ultra can fricking emulate totk at 20-25FPS average, I expect the 25 (Since 24 is going back to exynos, YUCK) will be able to hold it at steady 30fps.
>For the same reason you wouldn't put your phone in your backpack every time. It's a hassle
No I wouldn't put my phone in my backpack because I fricking use my phone constantly for an astronomical amount of tasks. I'd put my ds in my backpack because I use it to play video games when I have time for it and that's literally it. I should know, I own a ds lite and a 3ds and every time I've taken them on trips even as a child I had them in a bag. You have the tism.
Also to add for why waller, headphones and keys are mandatory for your pockets
>Headphones: Can be used for literally any activity. Complements your phone.
>Wallet: You probably purchases most times you go out. If your bag gets stolen and it's in there you're fricked.
>Keys: If your bag gets stolen and its in there you're fricked.
Nothing else is as important as those... unless you're a moron who bought a $1200 handheld I guess lol.
have you tried the switch lite? it weighs the same as the original nintendo ds model. it can fit in larger pockets, well kind off. nitendo ds wasnt exactly comfy to have in a pocket either
Chinese Linux handhelds and Android handhelds are the only true handhelds these days. I was tempted recently by the Ally, almost bought one today, but then I realized that I was being fricking stupid and had no need for it.
The ally is a really neat device, and I got mine for $450 open box otherwise complete, and chucked it to ASUS for RMA (for SD card shit), I wouldn't ever recommend paying retail though, but it will completely and utterly supercede my deck in every fathomable way.
I wish win10 on deck was a bit further along but all those shitty MMOs I'd love to play out and about don't work on my deck. I still use my deck, but I'll be using it a lot less when I have the ally.
That said I understand my case is unique and like 95% of games work just dandy on the deck.
I'm curious to see how hard the non extreme z1 model flops, because MAN is it way less powerful. I'm expecting massive price slashes on the ally by christmas, doubly so if they don't get the sd card shit fixed by then.
The Deck also doesn't really do what I really enjoy, like Fallout 4 modding (frick trying to jury-rig that shit together). That's why I was looking at the Ally, which should be pretty simply for that purpose. Then I realized that I don't go anywhere, and I don't even like dealing with my Switch when I'm laying down due to its size, so it would be pointless. I used to travel a lot of for work but I've been promoted enough that I no longer have to go anywhere. I also have a gaming laptop that is nicer than the Ally (also a ROG device) if I did really want to play from the couch or something instead of using my desktop.
I think Asus's Z1 Extreme exclusivity ends soon, it sounds like a bunch of other manufacturers are about to launch their own devices using it, so the Ally could easily end up on the bottom of the pile in the next six months.
That's why I was expecting price cuts, yeah. I'm pretty content with the form factor, the temps, the speeds, and yeah I've seen friends with them get mods well set. I really enjoy all these handheld devices but the win ones are my favorites far and away. I used to have a gpdwin2, but man, it was way overpriced and underpowered for what it is.
Yeah, I think GPD and Aya Neo are going to get priced out of the market once Asus, MSI, Alienware... etc. all have Z1 Extreme handhelds on the market under $1000.
Alienware dropped out of the handheld game like a year ago, their micro builds were all failures to a hilarious degree, I'm pretty sure they sold all of their work to logitech, which is why they put out the cloud handheld then a month later turned around and announced a fully fledged win handheld.
>The Deck also doesn't really do what I really enjoy, like Fallout 4 modding
It can do all of that just fine. It's just a pc you know.
>I'm curious to see how hard the non extreme z1 model flops, because MAN is it way less powerful. I'm expecting massive price slashes on the ally by christmas, doubly so if they don't get the sd card shit fixed by then.
You would think $100 off the price would just mean less storage but 25% less CPU cores and 66% less GPU cores, from 12 to 4 in addition to half the storage. The only people who buy it are going to be people who don't know there is a difference between the chips.
Still I don't hate the Z1 chip, after seeing the Mendo you can do a lot with 4cu. I would love to see it used in say small budget handhelds for $350/450ish dollars. If a company brought out a Switch Lite/Ayaneo Air sized handheld with it in it I would be all over that.
>I think Asus's Z1 Extreme exclusivity ends soon, it sounds like a bunch of other manufacturers are about to launch their own devices using it, so the Ally could easily end up on the bottom of the pile in the next six months.
I hope one of these manufactures goes as compact as possible, I want something small to compliment my Deck like picrel but from a big company.
>but it will completely and utterly supercede deck in every fathomable way.
Not without touchpads.
For anyone that has never tried a Deck this might seem like a nitpick, but really, the touchpads make a huge difference, touchscreens for PCs suck ass.
That slime boy is really cool
Thank you, anon!
Smartphones happened and Nintendo saw the end of the dedicated handheld gaming device. At best you get a switch lite. Sony abandoned it and in the current climate of game development who can afford to split your library of first party games between a console and a handheld, it makes more sense for all your games to be playable in one device with how long game development is now and how fewer and fewer first party games release. It's not like I the early 2000s where they could get studios to churn out PSP games. Probably why their project Q is just a in home streaming device and not a new PSP because a new PSP would likely be expected to play the PS5 library.
the Q is an android tablet with built in controller. It's gonna be like $300 just like the logitech g cloud. The leak video showed it running android 12.
People have decided they'd rather have a big ass screen instead of better portability factor. Input options aren't a factor for this, the screen size (not even resolution but the physical screen size) is what people care about now.
I hate this with a passion. When I buy a phone, the only requirement I ask for is the smallest screen available, and then I rage because that model is 2 inches taller than my 5 year old phone that imo was still too big at time of purchase.
It literally fits very well into my pocket though?
Granted it uses the entire pocket and I never actually use it undocked, but saying it doesn't fit in your pocket makes you either a liar, or worse, a woman.
>I have to cram it uncomfortably and it peaks out but TECHNICALLY I can carry it in my pocket
>you sir are a liar and Nintendo WILL sue for defamation
...ok
Try removing the joycons you brainlet.
>what is the switch lite
only downside for me is the lack of video out support but it's the perfect size for handheld gameplay
>and underpowered
It runs all the games I want it to run just fine since I rarely ever play AAA slop after 2017.
I'll concede it would be nice to be able to fit in my pocket, but I have ways around this using an actual carrying case.
is it true the Steam Deck battery only lasts 2-4 hours depending on the game? I don't think I'd be able to play comfortably having to worry about such a short battery life
Mine usually lasts about 5 or so hours. Only game that actually drained my battery was FF7 Remake. I'd usually get like 3 hours at best with that game.
are there good games where I can get 8+ battery life? so I only need to charge one or twice on short trips
Unless you're emulating, playing indies, or I guess anything before the last generation or so, probably not.
This is also my experience. I actually do use it outside of the house as well. I haven’t had a problem.
If you want it for a longer train ride/flight or something, then either plan on plugging into an outlet or power bank.
I generally run newer games locked at 30 FPS with better texture detail and filtering.
It’s not pocketable, but it’s really not uncomfortable to hold for extended periods and doesn’t feel as big or heavy IRL as pictures make it look.
I will also add that most games that are on both switch and pc actually have similar battery life on switch vs deck (with the deck often having better graphics & way higher framerate)
today i played brütal legend on mine
ran great
I have a little miyoo mini + for on the go (because the Steam Deck isn't even approximating "portable"), and then a desktop PC at home for emulating more powerful stuff. I've been debating getting some grips for my phone to do moonlight/more demanding emulation on the go, but eh, I might just grab one of those $100 chinkhelds that can play up to a handful of ps2/gc.
7 hours of battery life for low power games, 3-4 hours for medium, ~1:30-2 hours for high power.
Triple A is slop and doesn't matter if it doesn't run on Deck. Even then, 99.9% of games still run on it. Cyberslop and Wild Hearts are the only decent games that come to mind that don't run on the Deck.
Why would you buy this if you have a gaming PC?
That's just it. You wouldn't. These devices exist to try and consolize the pc gaming market. And it works to some extent, but they all have had such wild fricking hilarious issues at launch that it's almost unfathomable why people are buying them. I remember steam decks obliterating SD cards and having fans so loud they caused hearing damage at launch. Now the ally is doing the same shit.
>i remember steam decks obliterating SD cards
This literally never happened lol. It was an issue with Linus tech tips and other morons leaving their sd cards inside the Steam Deck and taking the shell off, breaking them in the process. Like no shit that could happen.
>fans so loud they caused hearing damage
Not even remotely true and the fan noise was fixed with a system update like a few weeks later, and the loud fans were discontinued altogether.
>not even remotely true
>it is true and they fixed it later
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
Yes disingenuous Black person. The fan noise wasn't even close to causing hearing damage.
You can't pretend it didn't exist and then that they "fixed it" later, if it didn't fricking exist, Black person.
You specifically said it caused hearing damage. That's what I meant wasn't even remotely true. Keep arguing semantics though shit for brains. Final (You) for your toddler bait.
>semantics
lmao you're the one saying it does and doesn't exist in the same sentence. Cope harder.
I use it to play games at work when there aren't any calls. It's also unironically the best way to play the Batman Arkham games on pc. If you play them on a desktop you get large stutters with Nvidia and AMD no matter what you do, but on the Deck you don't get or notice them.
morons, the Deck is best as a companion device to a gaming PC especially with cloud saves
>especially with cloud saves
????
Good luck getting cloud saves on the go cause it has no sim or even esim support. You know what does, and also has cloud support WITHOUT having to use a fricking shit utility like rclone?
My fricking PHONE.
Chinkhelds can't run shit, are very overpriced for their specs, run fricking Android and aren't pocketable anyway for your sissy manlet skinny jean needs. Deck actually plays everything I throw at it, has good build quality and I'm not wrestling a crippled stock OS set up all wrong.
For me specifically I like playing it in bed before I go to sleep. I actually just beat Cuphead the other day purely by playing it on my Deck for several nights.
You'd also be surprised just how many Steam games run well on it. Obviously I'll use my regular PC for big graphics games or if I want to stream/voice chat, but I've found myself using the Deck to go through by back catalog of shit I bought ages ago but never touched. I think the only time I ran into an issue with was Powerwash Simulator, that game freaked out every time I swapped from the analog stick to the trackpad because it couldn't handle a mixed input, spent a good 20 minutes dicking around with the controller assignment thing to make a workaround for it.
i dont understand how people can play on these massive portable consoles. i think even the switch is pushing it in terms of weight, Steam Deck is like twice the weight how do you play that for hours without feeling discomfort? id imagine most steam deck users play in bed, it would be much more comfy to just get a portable screen and attach it to some kind of adjustable arm and then connect a pc/console to that
I'm a dyel and it's perfectly comfortable.
im disabled and tired, i guess its more of a personal issue then, maybe healthy people dont mind holding that big bulky thing for hours
What the frick am I supposed to do when the power goes out? Phone game shit? No thanks.
It's no bigger than my dick
frick you got a small dick, sorry girl
because 'ick on 'puter isn't as comfortable
>poor little white 'boy
>bout to get DECKED
consoles cannot stop losing to PC in every front.
>handheld
>has a 2 hour battery life
>MY plastic toy can last for 3 hours
cool, mine plays PS2 games.
>underpowered
Huh? Please explin how
CPU: Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (APU)
GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (APU)
RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5
Hard Drive: eMMC or NVMe
is underpowered?
, I'm still waiting on
>Underpowered
Yeah
If you could upgrade the APU yourself like a normal gaming PC that would be so fricking awesome
Honestly a great idea. I'd happily buy custom Valve apu upgrades. The downside is that getting games optimized for it would be harder.
>pic
white pecker vs. BBC
have a nice day nu-furry.
>he says as he inclhdes a gba in his pic
Underpowered? Your brain is underpowered.
Because the Steam Deck can play the system you showed in the picture plus way more for $400
Steam Deck or ROG Ally?
Ally has more power and more compatibility, but it's Windows 11 with an awkward built-in interface on top. Deck handles more smoothly and has larger community support, but is Linux and thus doesn't work out of the box with everything. If the Ally was a little better ergonomically and could effectively run a SteamOS-ified version of Windows it'd beat the Deck, but as is a big part of the deal depends on how much you're willing to deal with Microsoft's OS.
>ally
>no touchpad
don't fall for the chink shit and just get the deck
>No trackpads
Ally has chinkshit tier quality issues and joysticks are shit
GBA had such a cool aesthetic. Still my favorite handheld design
because theres no other way to play Company of Heroes 2 on the go
I can't get most gamecube games to run on it for some reason. Worst money I ever spent.
Its cheap and let's me play sekiro at 60fps and elden ring at 35-60fps in bed. Not to mention the literal thousands of games you can pirate
classic pocket handhelds used to be made the size of a calculator to fit in a buisness coat pocket. The original gameboy was inspired by a buisnessman playing with a calculator to pass the time. Iwata even designed the ds lite to fit in these pockets. no one who actually play these games really have these extra pockets anymore, or at all, especially in north america.
my guess to why theyre big is to compete with tablets, more so than smart phones. Still, want a fricking handheld that isnt the size of a fricking brick.
retroid pocket flip
(or 2S if you just want to play 4:3 systems)
it's android instead of linux which blows, but honestly android emulation is fine nowadays.
I find that a Miyoo Mini Plus or an RG35xx, even in a small portable HDD case, is quite pocketable. Though I prefer my RG353M, it's not quite as easy to pocket once inside a decent case. I try to protect it more due to the sticks. I have considered buying one of those cheap $30 PowKiddy devices that are modeled after a GBA SP, I could just throw those into a pocket without a case and not worry about it; who cares if it gets scratched up?
miyoo mini is fine and all, but a 2S is a real small form factor, hall effect sticks, and will fit just the same as a 353m, so it won't even need a case.
the powkiddy v90 is fine but it's weaker than a miyoo mini+ so I can't really recommend it unless you don't wanna play any ps1 (or other disc based systems) at all.
The best part about winter is the jacket pockets. I've even started to wear the Hawaiian shirts in the summer, and I always look for the ones with the breast pocket.
I love pockets.
Overshirts, anon. But I'm with you, I'm the same way. I thankfully work in a relatively relaxed office environment so no one minds I'm a little more casual. I sew on inner breast pockets if there isn't one available, and I can't tell you how often it has genuinely come in handy keeping a variety of shit there. Pens, pencils, electronics (usually cables), and more. I also keep my little fiio x3 in there, loaded up with a full ass tb of music, and my IEMs in case I'm stuck somewhere for any period of time.
i know what you mean.
at my old job, we had to wear thin yellow saftey vests. They had one small pocket on the right. Id carry my psvita in it when i was dragging equipment across the factory to strip and wax floors. id play it 30mins between coats. I miss it, but they hired some c**t that had to start barking at everyone on the job.
anyway, got a new job and looking into getting some kind of vest to wear in the summer that wouldnt cause me to over heat so i can carry my handheld around.
I've just started to wear cargo shorts in the summer.
I have two kids, I don't care anymore.
>he's gonna let his kids have an ugly unkempt father
Not very cash money of you
I thought about buying one of those eVest thing or whatever they are called now (I think people like to refer to them as Travel Vests now). They're kind of expensive, but they will deck you out with pockets and you can buy some that are very light and intended to be worn in the heat. Haven't done it yet though, they're like $170, which I find to be excessive.
with a name like eVest, i expect it to be solar powered.
Back in the 00's they were marketing these to people who had a bunch of portable electronics (phone, MP3 player, that sort of thing). Usually they have channels to manage things like headphone cables. These days they seem to focus on making it easier to travel. I think it would help me conceal-carry more comfortably and also give me plenty of space to slip a little chinkheld into a pocket.
they want to 'ick it
Steamdeck hueg
>underpowered
Running Bald Gates 3 on medium with it at 30 fps
>huge
no it's not if you're not a handlet the screen itself is small.
It's a very good handheld and emulation machine. Very comfy to hold and the controls are on par or better than the major controllers.
As a portable PC it suffers from no full disk encryption, you wouldn't want to put anything important on there with the risk of theft when traveling.
I have been chinked before by GPD and the support and repairability of the deck is why I'll stick with it.
steam deck 2 will be so much better and less bulky
thanks for beta testing I guess
People are moronic.
what's a good stylus for the deck?
i need one to draw in gimp, and for melonds and citra
Your finger.
i mean, yeah.
what's a good stylus that mimics the texture of my finger?
>stylus that imitate fingerprints
What kind of future do you come from?
Sadly, as much as I love it, it still has some weird quirks, like yesterday, it decided to change the folder of my steamgames. Then there's no way to choose the install path, had to rename the folders on desktop mode.
I bought an ayaneo air right before they announced the air 1S… I would never take the thing above 15w TDP unplugged, but the 1S would be fantastic for playing docked.
I regret my purchase.
>They announce a new one near when the last one came out
Woah what a surprise they threw it to the side like so many others.
Its great. Posting on my steamy deeck right now.
Such a great system.
Because it works.
Because it's better than the Nintroony Shitch
it's a great way to emulate later gen consoles on the go at a really acceptable price, it's basically a mini PC so you can run whatever you want on it, and it's steam branded with gaben's blessing.
that does not mean it's the best choice. i picked up a switch and chinkheld over the deck, at least for right now, because i don't want to have to track down a bunch of frickin torrents for new switch titles and then hope i can find a working emulator. on the other hand, we've been emulating shit from gamecube backward forever, so it makes sense to have a chinkheld. i can run literally anything i want from the mid 80s until the early 2000s on the chinkheld, and any new gaymes i want will run on the switch. it's all portable, although i have no plans to take the switch to work, and the chinkheld means i don't have to shell out $50/y for some homosexual ass tendie simpscription. as for other consoles like xbox and ps, ps has basically no exclusives anymore and xbox is all streaming geared anyway with no portable option ever. deck is the only option for those, but for the big name titles it's probably on switch anyway.
TLDR emulate everything you can *easily* emulate, buy the console/handheld for new shit. your time has value, configuring emulators and finding torrents makes zero sense for something as relatively recent as the switch or any other new console, for that matter.