Valve introduces Steam Deck

[DoNotReadTheFinePrint]

With this thing you can knock people unconscious with.
I'll stay with my old Switch. It's at least not as chunky and heavy as this thing looks.
Still, I may look again into it once the price went down and common hardware and software issues are known.

 

[BiII]

Still waiting on Alienware's UFO device, Rumors say it might release around the same time when the Steam Deck does, I like to see how these 2 go toe to toe

 

[The Marauder]

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

If history is anything to go by, this will fail.

Somehow they will make a dumb decision or fail to capture the same sort of magic that Nintendo does. And this will fail. The concept of making a handheld PC is already pretty unsteady on its feet. The controls are not going to be adequate. Can you expand the memory with a SD/microSD card?

 

[Pissmaster]

I’d never play this or any other handheld out in public because I’m not a virgin

The trick to playing handhelds in public and still look cool is to rig up some kind of way to play several of them all at once like those one-man band guys

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good lord

since most people don't have a vita, here's one next to a PSP

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Anyone done a spec comparison with the GPD Win?

 

[Kulee Baba]

If history is anything to go by, this will fail.

Somehow they will make a dumb decision or fail to capture the same sort of magic that Nintendo does. And this will fail. The concept of making a handheld PC is already pretty unsteady on its feet. The controls are not going to be adequate. Can you expand the memory with a SD/microSD card?

I dunno, the Gaming Laptop market is strong enough to have several corporations manufacture for it.

The best news about this is it sends the message to Microsoft that if they fuck up Windows 11 PC Gamers could start leaving for Linux.

 

[The Last Stand]

Just build your own PC at this point.

 

[Dom Cruise]

It's a monster!

Imagine how hot this thing is going to run.

 

[Pissmaster]

Just build your own PC at this point.

The PC building market's been in shambles for nearly a year now due to a lot of different factors, most notably cryptocurrencies booming until around May; a global microchip shortage; and China having sweeping brownouts. Video cards are still selling for around 3x what they're worth, and even older mid-high end used ones from about 2016 onward could be flipped for more than they were bought for new. Its all left PC gaming in a very weird place.

 

[Pringles Can]

Looks interesting, but history has shown that going up against Nintendo handhelds will always end up in failure. Probably will pick one up when it goes on sale a year or 2 after launch.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Reminds me of this shit:

 

[Tachibana]

I looked at the spec sheet. This monster is 669 grams. For comparison, an OG Switch with the joycons on is 400 grams. This is 40% heavier than an OG Switch, which by itself I would consider heavy.

It also has a 16:10 aspect ratio display, which is a really strange choice and it'll introduce black bands in a lot of games. OLED is fine for black bands, but it's very irritating on a LCD display.

In terms of power, it's 2/5 to 1/2 as powerful as an Xbox Series S. And the battery life is slated for 2 to 8 hours, 2 hours of battery life on the lower end!

Who the hell asked for this console PC monster?

 

[Honk Hill]

Gaming is just another form of faggot degeneracy that should stay in the bedroom or basement.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

finally i can play my steam games at the local maccas while i eat tendies

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Specs look okay for older games and most indie games. No way in hell I'm playing Rimworld with a controller.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

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RIP Vita, taken too soon through the sheer incompetence of Sony on all levels. Seeing that size comparison I can only guess how uncomfortable that'd be for longer gaming sessions.

I looked at the spec sheet. This monster is 669 grams. For comparison, an OG Switch with the joycons on is 400 grams. This is 40% heavier than an OG Switch, which by itself I would consider heavy.

Man, imagine dropping this beast and the impact it'd cause if it's built like a brick rather than the junk that explodes from light damage. Imagine your poor foot taking that.

 

[The Marauder]

since most people don't have a vita, here's one next to a PSP

I have one. Never touched a PSP in my life but I had the Vita. And I loved it.

RIP Vita, taken too soon through the sheer incompetence of Sony on all levels.

I know, I’m still mad it failed.

 

[Caustic Gelatin]

So is this going to be the usual showing of valve touting this as the greatest thing since games put on floppy disk, then releasing it with a bunch of bugs/hardware issues?

 

[HumanHive]

64GB in 2021, some of the bigger games wouldn't even fit on that now. Is it cloud based or some shit?

A lot of those “bigger” games just have huge uncompressed 4k textures that most people don’t even really need. Sure, 4k is nice, but do you need it? No. And do you need uncompressed sound files from a dozen languages? No.

If Valve pressures the right movers and shakers, we could see file sizes shrink and/or be more modular. You should determine if you want those 4k textures, or if you’re fine with regular textures. Especially for this portable SteamOS box, which in my opinion is really for plane rides and such.