For portability, why bother with literally anything else than the Steam Deck? There are no laptops within the same price range that perform nearly as well.
For portability, why bother with literally anything else than the Steam Deck...
It's my favorite game machine I've ever owned, perfect companion to my desktop
It's not small enough to toss into a bag on a trip. A shame, because the Steam Deck is a Steam Controller 2.0 that we deserved.
Most games I play are not on Steam so it seems useless
You can add any game, just go to desktop mode, install the game, right click the executable file, then "add to steam", after going back to gaming mode it'll be in your library as if it were a steam game.
It's too weak and it runs on linux, ROG Ally is stronger and it runs on windows so it is much better
and it runs on windows so it is much better
I do. It's my go to for gaming now. Just clearing my backlog and finding new stuff. Will be buying deck 2 if valve drops one
This nigga has not only a purse but an itty bitty baby purse
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DONT BUY A DECK THEY SUCK ASS. BUY A ROG. I ONLY REGRET BUYING A DECK. NOTHING WORKS ON THE STEAM DECK. SAVE YOURSELF
I definitely agree that windows is a pos, but what other system is ass powerful and plays all the games steam deck can’t. You can play destiny 2, gta, apex, battlefield, rainbow six, and even Fortnite. You could put windows on a deck and play those but it won’t run as well as the ally x. Cope
I get >consoles
But unless whoever you're buying games from (and this is an extremely short list) are specifically fucking assholes it's a non-issue to play them or even get a different game-mode frontend to launch your shit.
destiny 2, gta, apex, battlefield, rainbow six, and even Fortnite
So are you just naming terrible garbage as a joke or are you unironically a shill. Because I have to check these days.
what side are you on, schizo? also
You can play destiny 2, gta, apex, battlefield, rainbow six, and even Fortnite
if you have exceedingly low standards as a gamer. all these games won't run because they have predatory software that the steam deck is too based to run
Nothing works
You know it can run epic, gog and emulated games right?
Because it can't play my niche Japanese games. Sure it can emulate the switch version but at that point why not just play it on the switch?
What multiplayer games are you guys playing? Also cs2 doesn’t run nearly as smooth as csgo did on the deck. I wish we could play chrome hounds or steel battalion like games on the deck. There aren’t any good multiplayer games coming out anymore and the games I mention are all old as shit.
CS2 worked fine on mine, and I've been playing scream fortress for the past month
ROG Ally mogs it.
i only play tf2 nowadays, but i've been able to run warframe, dota 2, garry's mod world of warcraft (private servers) all on a 1080p screen
where's the keyboard?
...for the price of a midrange desktop
If you pirate half the time this shit does not work. I just dual boot windows to work around it.
Yeah, it’s practically just as good as a midrange desktop except it is portable. Want a desk top, then dock it. You get both a desktop and umpc while being more powerful than a deck.
Biggest mobile device I can tolerate is 3DS. Any bigger and I'd rather be at a desk or couch
I have no idea what you're talking about. The steam deck bag it comes with is a perfect personal size item to go with your carry on bag. I bring it every time. I don't run any multiplayer games because I use it for travel, so it's a single player gaming device. Even if I was playing multiplayer games, I wouldn't be playing half that dog shit.
Warframe? People play that mobile unreal engine slop? God, I wish I had an Ally X so I could play good fucking games like Darkest Hour mod, Project reality, neotokyo, battlefield 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault. You shat on my for suggesting rainbow six but you’re playing warframe? Bro, kill yourself. I bet you suck cock at Dota. I’d play better games if they were even fucking playable today, like Fear Combat, or any and every EA game or games for windows live game. Multiplayer games are dead because of zoomers
the highest end steamdeck is similar in price to a really nice lenovo laptop.
Perfect device to play vidya while your baby is napping on your chest
what's the cheapest lenovo laptop i can get that will allow me to do 3d modelling in blender and maybe gamedev
cod, r6s, fortnite, battlefield (lol who plays anything past BF1)
Why would you subject yourself to playing PC multiplayer games without an ethernet connection ON TOP OF BITCH BASIC XBOX CONTROLS? It doesn't matter if you have the power to run games if you get your shit kicked in by some faggot with 10 ping and instant CSGO "reflexes".
muh gyro
Gyro is based but Deck does it better with capacitive joysticks, trackpads and extra back buttons + you're definitely not good at it to match a M&K player
GTA V
it ran fine until rockstar fucked it with anti cheat
Destiny 2
If your response to Bungie's stance of "we will never support Linux and we'll ban you for trying" wasn't a "FUCK YOU" you're a cucked faggot.
Why will anyone buy a circumcised laptop?
evola is a hack
yes it can.
This here is a true moron. Dual booting is an enormous waste of space. Pirating is extremely easy. 90% of games just work if you install them to a usb, plug your deck into something that has usb ports, then literally copy and paste the game folder to the steam deck desktop, add the exe via steam, and change proton style to experimental. And whatever minor shit you need to do is as easy as doing something through proton tricks or using a proton version.
Pirating games or playing indie/freeware games could not be easier on the deck
no idea. just look at legion laptops for specs you need. they're reasonably priced especially since black friday is coming up.
It's still kind of weird to see people recommending dualbooting windows.
I haven't done that shit since Windows deliberately corrupted my GRUB.
Ironically making it only possible for Ubuntu to boot.
How is it with a mouse and keyboard docked?
works great. some games will perform less if you go from 720p to 1080p, but even then i can run the vast majority of my games playing kb+m on my monitor
Pretty good, I use it with pic related and a little logitech mouse sometimes when I'm sitting on my couch.
Got a deck at launch for modern games and for docking at hotels and friends' houses when I want to bring PC games with me. Got picrel for emulation and mobile gaming because it's actually pocketable, doesn't weight 10 pounds, and can hold its charge for my use cases unlike the SD.
and can hold its charge for my use cases unlike the SD.
Ah the use case of specifically shutting off frame limiting, cranking it up to max brightness and running Furmark on it
I have a switch already.
The deck's battery is awful, and it sounds like it's about to blast off the entire time. Not sure why you're arguing with everyone ITT like you've got a bunch of valve stock on the verge of vesting.
Ok but a laptop is an actuall functioning computer suitable for adults with adult responsibilities and not a tablet for manchild NEET pedophiles.
You make a solid point
That'd be compelling if Valve was a public traded company
Just install windows on the deck. ROG Ally can run steamos anyway so the OS argument is pointless. The ally is more performant but I'd only get one if they added touchpads.
I cant fit it in my pocket
git gud
your hyperbole is factually inaccurate
moment of silence for this retard
Says the guy who got mad when I pointed out he was bullshitting about the battery life on the Steam Deck with a hyperbole.
Ahem
Did anyone ever figure out a way to stop the endlessly downloading shadercache? I have rural internet and games take long enough to download.
bullshitting about the battery life on the Steam Deck
There's no point in arguing with you all day about your wrong opinion. Everybody who owns a SD, including you, knows the battery is 2 hours or less for most modern games and only slightly better for older games and emulation. It'd be a better use of my time to argue with a homeless guy babbling outside 7/11 about chemtrails. He's delusional. You're disingenuous, and probably fat and smelly, too.
Isnt the ps portal a streaming device that needs a ps5?
That isn't a PS Portal
There's no point in arguing with you all day about your wrong opinion.
I could say the same.
Because the steam deck is a little too big and has low battery life.
I doubt it'll happen but I hope the next one scales down a decent bit and ups battery life while improving performance and power by a generation, I don't care if I have to wait a little longer for it.
that looks absolutely nothing like a ps portal anon are you ok
scales down a decent bit
it won't and that's a good thing, because that would be less comfortable and thus trash.
That's exactly how I did it before nigger. I may be a pirate but I'm not a poorfag who can't afford to upgrade my ssd so I'd rather save the time installing a game on my pc, transferring it only for it to not work on the steam deck with proton experimental (has happened more than once) and just went windows direct because that always works.