I really do love my steam deck, but more importantly for me, I am excited to see all the effects of gaming becoming more viable in Linux.
I reaaaaally dislike windows at this point.
Steam Deck using Linux puts it above anything else in the handheld category. It’s truly a device you yourself can do anything with, with no limitations or hard locks.
Not to mention the sw and hw support which both are excellent.
Realising that there is absolutely no way for me to, for instance, make a local backup of saves / settings, not even a way to access them on my Switch is a very sobering experience.
I’ve only realized just how unnecessarily locked down consoles are after i installed custom firmware on my 3ds. It feels like a basic feature to be able to export and backup your savegames but somehow that’s not allowed with stock firmware?!
I’ll pick one up once they release a model with OLED. My Nintendo Switch has it, and it would be really hard to go back.
See you in 2026 lol
I’ll be surprised if it’s that soon. Most consoles have 6-7 year life cycles.
Is the steam deck really comparable to a traditional console?
we’ll soon see I think, Valve has said they want this to be more of a traditional console-style lifespan, and they’ve also said they don’t see a reason to release a Steam Deck 2 unless they can get a significant performance bump, as of right now having a hardware target for devs to aim/optimize for is a really good benefit
plus if the devs optimize a game for Steam Deck those optimizations help for other handheld gaming PCs even if they’re more powerful than the Deck
I’m super excited about a potential Steam Deck 2, I would love to see a better screen (quality, not so much resolution, maybe OLED) as well as a better battery life, and, of course, a more powerful APU… I wonder what the possibility of porting Proton to ARM is and switching to an ARM/Chiplet style CPU for the Deck 2
I’m happy to use my steam deck for the next few years but if they released a new steam deck in say 4 years and it had significantly better performance (like at least 900p 60fps in modern to the time games) I wouldn’t even have to think about purchasing it I just would.
Me neither. I’d get the new one right away. And it’s a PC so I can retire my Steam Deck to use to do for other things by then. It’s a really great machine.
Depends on your use case. If you’re playing older titles and emulating it will never be “too old” but AAA games are already tough for it to run in a lot of cases.
I don’t see that happening for a while, and tbh it still blows my mind that Nintendo prioritized OLED over any sort of performance upgrade. OLED is undeniably better looking, but it’s not worth it imo when some first party games can’t even hit 30 fps.
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I imagine it’s because they don’t want to burden developers with multiple performance SKUs. Also Nintendo puts graphics and performance as low priority. Cost, polish, and ease of use are prioritized.
That seems like a weird hill to die on.
I prefer the hundreds of games I already own on steam and the ability to own my system and customize it as I see fit, but to each their own. Ifixit sells screens, they might release an OLED one at some point for people who want it, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for it.
That’s it? I mean I definitely think the Switch is a good option for “normies” but Steam Deck has a long long list of advantages that I feel can overcome a subpar display…
I prefer to avoid burn in
Burn-in is overhyped with the newer prevention tools. I’ve used my Switch for over 2000 hours, and I’ve yet to see any burn-in. I also have an OLED widescreen monitor that I’ve used for work and gaming 12 hours a day for the last two years, and it looks fantastic. Hard to go back when the colors are so much more accurate and vibrant.
The article doesn’t say much but that the price is better then their competitions and that it runs on Linux.
Their is so much more to it.
I think that is due to them being windowscentral.com. All their articles have the noticeable Windows-slant — even this one, and despite admitting to Valve’s position of strength. And praising Linux as an outright advantage would likely be too much shock therapy to bear for their readership.
It’s windowscentral.com. Did you expect a real article?
Has any info been leaked about the profit margin Steam Decks are for Valve?
I get it’s a loss leader to increase Steam software purchases, but would be neat to know how much of any they earn per deck.
Has any info been leaked about the profit margin Steam Decks are for Valve?
Well, seems like it’s very unlikely that they lose money the more Decks they sell, I’d expect the 64gb model to go out at pretty much their cost per device.
The Markup between the 512 model and the 64gb model is much higher than any OEM cost I would expect, so there’s probably a little margin in there.
Has any info been leaked about the profit margin Steam Decks are for Valve?
I get it’s a loss leader to increase Steam software purchases, but would be neat to know how much of any they earn per deck.
