PC handhelds are the best way to play games

And yet the switch 2 will outsell their combined sales.

get game on steam deck

mess with settings to make graphics as shit as possible so it can run at 30fps at least

play with stutters and check the temperature every minute to make sure your settings aren't too high

get game on switch 2

immediately start playing without having to fuck around with settings, and looks better than other handhelds (which barely qualify as handhelds because they're way thicker)

hmm ok so i just finished reading the thread and it sounds like the deck didn't do very well huh? maybe next time it won't be as 'shitted' and 'flopped' as you are all saying

Steam deck too underpowered

People (that obviously don't have one) keep saying this, but I keep playing my library of like 300 games, 700+ if we count emulation stuff I've transferred from my pc

300 games

old shit everyone already beat decades ago and pixelshit indies, getting a $550 device to be missing out every new game is retarded, and no, downgrading it to ps2 graphics to run at 400p 30fps is not playable

emulation

there are much cheaper options for that

I know this is a fanboy seething thread, but it's extremely presumptuous to assume that: everyone's played those old games and people actually dislike those pixel shit indies, one of which is one of the few premiere launch titles on a certain system.
Both shills and the few people I know who are even remotely actually interested in console gaming these days are mostly talking about the fact that it has back compatibility so it isn't IMMEDIATELY losing the entire switch library (which wasn't that great to begin with) and that it's getting gamecube games in the pay to use your own internet retard program pay some more expansion pack.

Yes. Love my Legion Go. Will upgrade to Go 2 in day one. Z2E, 32GB RAM, and VRR HDR OLED, gon be lit.

tendies still picking fights with absolute niche products and losing

grim

being black

a laptop is a handheld

dang you're already wavering on your messaging little guy. What happened? Saw comparisons?

my goon games need a mouse pointer so i love the trackpad.

It's honestly strange, like at least with something dumb like the MSI Claw with AI TM the product and software support is kinda shit, but for some reason they seem to keep swinging at basically the gold standard for software support, so much so, to the degree that like, saying

It doesn't play on the steam deck

Is practically the same as saying

Yeah this game installs malware on your computer takes up way too much fucking space and runs like complete shit on everything, go buy a 5090ti XL for a B grade fps/RPG

Curious that you omitted the Legion Go. It does have a trackpad and it has a 1600p screen so you can play old shit at a high Res and you can 2x integer scale 800p for newer games without any loss in clarity.

I think it's a lowkey admission of defeat while still struggling. Sure, switch 2 should run better than a deck, because there's probably almost no dev taking the time to optimise especially for the deck since it's a niche product and ppl will get to run it fine with extra work anyway. But around this point deck has like 90% of all games on steam and switch 2 has donkey kart.

Sorry if this is a retarded question; can you connect these to a monitor/TV with a keyboard and mouse and use them as a normal PC? And if so, how do they compare against a laptop if you travel a lot for work and want something portable for games and movies?

You can with the Steam Deck, and I've used it for light video editing docked.
Mostly sending memes to my bro.

He omitted a bunch of devices. They might cost more, but there's tons of different options when it comes to PC handhelds.

(I own a Steam Deck but personally I would like something smaller like the GPD Win Mini or Ayaneo Air (or maybe even the that dualscreen Ayaneo one, since I no longer have a 3DS and the prices have gotten completely retarded))

getting a $550 device to be missing out every new game is retarded

I don't even play movieshit on my tower lmao

>emulation

there are much cheaper options for that

And they all fucking suck. Fucking 3 minutes of input lag on PS2, no emulators for anything slightly less conventional so your only option, if at all, becomes MAME in all its CPU torture zero performance glory.

You can. All these handhelds are essentially mini PC with the form factor of Switch. You can thank Valve and Nintendo for popularizing these form factor and use case. If you work more than play, a laptop would make more sense since you don't need to bring external keyboard, mouse and monitor to plug into. Even so, Steam OS is pretty limited for work purposes.

True, you really don't need anything more. I have a PC for poorly optimized modern games but if I was gaming on a budget I'd just buy on of these and be done with it. They can play anything worth playing. I have a Deck and honestly I would prefer to just play everything on it even if my PC can run it ten times better.

I literally don't have a gaming PC. Only a Legion Go. If there's something that's too demanding and I want to play it in a better quality than upscaled from 480p at 20 FPS, I'll just pay for a month of GeForce Now. But that's extremely rare. I think I only had to do that for Indiana Jones and Doom Dark Ages.

about to start being $800+

Steam Deck games look worse than the Switch 2's

PC handhelds rely on off-the-shelf parts

Windows 11

SteamOS is broken shit

I'll just get a Switch 2 and then in 2027 get Microsoft's own Xbox Switch (first-party Xbox dockable handheld).

Now it just needs good games

Steam deck is my favourite. None of the competitors have performance increases good enough to justify dropping pads and moving. Hopefully deck 2 will drop in next few years

I don't even play movieshit on my tower lmao

Yes we know that you don't play any games at all.

Playing games on PC handles sounds fun, but then I realize that anything that is not an indie game or has pixel art style but actual good graphics will probably run on them in like 15 fps.

Steam deck sucks and can't really play any new games.

Just stream it

Then you can get a chinkheld for half the price that isn't also a brick.

J-j-j-just play old games on it

Okay, but you might as well stream at that point.

I play Persona 5 Royal on my Ally X. Max settings 60 FPS. Same goes for Visions of Mana, Tales of Arise, and any of the Kingdom Hearts games,

I'm also playing FFXIV on it regularly, but for max settings there I have to lock it to 30 FPS. It's acceptable to me, but I know a lot of people can't stand 30 now.

Nope. Handhelds are for retards.

t. morbidly obese scoliosis desk PC lardass

made for dropping bombs on russian trenches

Why don't you volunteer Pawel?

I primarily emulate and it is underpowered, it struggles to run vita and PS3 games that are almost in reach. I am desperate for them to release a deck 2 so I can be liberated from my shitty LCD screen.

If only they were actually portable, without needing a backpack or a purse.
Look at all that wasted real estate.
You could fit a whole keyboard on there.

PS3

What the fuck did you expect? You need an expensive CPU and GPU even on a desktop PC to do that. Imagine thinking a device with 15W TDP will emulate PS3 lmao. People mean up to and including Wii U when they talk about emulation.

Looks like the most uncomfortable piece of shit ever and probably costs 3x as much as a deck and comes with 1 hour battery life.

most uncomfortable

Nah, that would be the 10" version. This is the 7" one.

costs 3x as much as a deck

2x, just stop being poor

1 hour battery life.

Yeh shit battery life but not quite that bad; like 5-8hours with retro games, but as little as 1.5-2hr if pushing more modern AAA type shiet.
I really hope they make the battery hot-swappable in the future.

I don't use it 90% of the time but the 10% that I do it's a god sent. On top of it being a somewhat comfortable and somewhat precise (of course not as much as a mouse) way to aim/move a cursor it's also amazing for additional menus.

AAA

Aside from that sorry but magic doesn't exist. It would either have shit battery life or it would be a bulky overheating piece of shit. Oh and it would probably expensive to the point of not being worth it. The only reasonable way for AAA running smoothly on handhelds is for devs to actually optimize their shit.

I'm not poor, that's why I have a Legion Go instead of a Deck, and that is actually a proper handheld with great detachable Switch style controllers.

Shut up nigger

detachable Switch style controllers.

Do they get wobbly like witch controllers, or are they actually held on ther pretty good?
Just goggling pics, it looks really flimsy, its somthing i really hated about switch, and part of why i sold mine.
I hated the wobble so fucking much.

I'll get one eventually for gaming in bed

It doesn't wobble at all, it's much better than the connector thing on Switch. It's very solid.

Whatever you say, retard who willingly pays for low resolution, shitty audio and low performance.

I have a Steam Deck OLEDbut it's seriously underpowered. I can barely run Skyrim on it and the battery life is atrocious. I ended up getting a MSI Claw 8 which so far been great for me. My Steam Deck has been relegated to become full-time emulation machine.