Alt text: Distracted Boyfriend meme, My 4080 Super, Me, My Steam Deck
I can’t bring my video card in bed with me.
Sorry, desktop PC, you’re just bad at snuggles while I can hug my Steam Deck.
But you can stream it. My phone is my poor man’s Deck.
You could play with Steam Link on the Deck.
I built a $2000 PC during the early pandemic days. Now I sit on my bed 5 feet away from that PC and play steam deck.
With Steam Link you can play on the Deck and have the quality and power of the $2,000 PC. Valve spoils us.
It’s so much more convenient to play locally though. Just press the button and you’re back where you left. No need to boot up the PC, start the game, establish the connection.
For real. I almost never turn my deck off. It just stays suspended right where I left off in my game. I push one button, and 3 seconds later I’m right where I left off.
I didn’t realize you could put the steam deck to sleep with a game still running. I had assumed it would cause game issues.
Nope. No issues at all. Uses up like 5% of the battery per day to be suspended like that, so if I’m playing through a game I can play the entire thing without ever seeing a boot screen or intro or having to worry about getting to a save point. Just right back into or out of the game within a couple seconds.
I love that feature so much. I have played through at least 20 backlog single player games with my deck. Amazing games that I could never finish before because it’s apparently too much to ask for my brain.
I often have issues with the sound though depending on the game after waking it up again, which is annoying. The sound is cracking and partially distorted.
I know it’s basically impossible, but I wish practical suspend/resume game functionality would make it to Windows.
So do you want that feature on your PC? Because you can get that
Is the answer Linux? Because I feel like the answer is Linux.
Same, 2k laptop with a 3070 ti and I cant even remember what game is installed there
Real
You can use steam link, or even better sunshine/moonlight, and have the best of both worlds if your local network is strong.
I can play fully modded Skyrim/Fallout4/Cyberpunk/Starfield on any screen in the house.
I don’t even see the point of a steam Deck, I use a regular 10inch tablet with a kickstand running moonlight and an Xbox controller in bed.
or even better sunshine/moonlight
Thanks for the shoutout, this is my first time reading about Sunshine. Looks pretty awesome!
I love it. The kids cheap laptops with Ubuntu are now fully fledged gaming laptops! And a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the cheap tablet is also a gaming computer.
Edit: also wireguard to connect from outside the house.ENORMOUS +1 for Sunshine + Moonlight. I’d play just about anything shy of a twitch shooter on it, if your network is nice and stable
The point is you don’t need to be at your house, or a place to set a tiny TV, or a kickstand, or a wall outlet. Also, if you’re using an Xbox controller, I can’t overstate how hard you are missing out on gyro controlled aiming on a steam deck. It works incredibly well.
I have neither and still find the Steam Deck more appealing for me.
Whiiiich, lends me to the next question, is the Steam Deck an inferior product compared to all the other existing PC handhelds? I mean we all know we have seen the Steam Deck basically created this new sector (inspired by the Switch), but I have seen lots of hate, or lots of praise towards it, by different users and I can’t exactly pinpoint which is the truth (it seems like the console wars of nowadays lol), at the point that all the praise the Steam Deck gets is a meme (I see this behavior on YT especially where this handhelds really show).
I still think the Steam Deck has the best price, but at the time I have enough income for getting one (and putting aside they don’t ship to Mexico) I think the market will have newer alternatives lol.
Other more powerful devices frankly often have worse frame pacing and battery life especially compared to the OLED model.
And no I don’t own or plan to own a deck but if I wanted a hand held right now that would be my choice.
often have worse frame pacing and battery life especially compared to the OLED model.
Yeah, honestly the fact that the Deck with less raw power leaves similar results is a huge positive point I guess, I honestly haven’t seen anyone complaining that much because of the performance issues.
And yeah, better battery life is always good in my book, I think other handhelds have a joke of battery life.
It’s weaker but Windows is so astonishingly terrible on handhelds that it ends up being a far better experience
the steam deck is less powerful than other handhelds, but is currently the best user experience and battery life on the handheld pc market. Even so the performance is often a non-issue, it can even play cyberpunk at a decent framerate.
It’s very similar to the raspberry pi in that other products have better on paper specs but the deck is the cultural hub and will have the longest support.
Huh, TIL the Pi had competition.
and will have the longest support.
I thought Valve wasn’t known for a long support for handheld, at least that is one comment a friend of mine said (that the Deck would be forgotten as the Steam controller).
Just saying, Steam controller is great and works amazingly still, made only better by the ongoing updates to steam input.
I’m not sure what else they’d need to do. Other than still produce it, I suppose 😅
I’m not sure what else they’d need to do. Other than still produce it, I suppose 😅
Yeah this is the part I’d be worried about if I get a Steam Deck and it has no successor 😅
If it’s official or not, the deck has tons of third party support through companies like Jsaux and their colab with iFixit. On the software side you have Camera, Bazzite and a wealth of options should steam OS disappear. I don’t think Valve will drop the deck tbh and them not being known for long support of the handheld this is their first one, your friend might be talking about the steam controller but even that is still supported just not for sale and was very much a cult product rather than a successful one.
Not all, but almost all of them. 1 (one) megapixel display, wider than my laptop, heavier than an extra phone with the best gamepad on earth mounted to it. Steam Deck has a long way forward to even match my classroom gaming experience from 2014, let alone surpass it. Aya Neo Air, GPD Win 4, there’s so much better hardware out there it hurts.
Funny I was just thinking about getting the 4080 super. Kinda on the fence, but I need something for the living room TV.
50 series is soon enough i’d say wait for that to.come out and get that or get a discounted 4080 super when the 50 is out.
Yeah… Just a little longer I suppose.
Got a backbone controller and ain’t been back to a console for anything other than watching streaming since.
So true… maybe if I could haul the desktop to the bar but still
