I’m really excited by this. I sold my nintendo switch a while ago and I miss handheld gaming while going on trips. and also the fact that alot of games will probably be ported to linux because of this. what do you all think?

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      3 years ago

      Since the Steam Machines we had lots of proton and client releases. Works way better than back then.

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        3 years ago

        Considering there is big market for handheld gaming. a switch form factor pc would definitely blow up. that, if people can actually afford it…

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          3 years ago

          I guess it will be about 600-700€ since similar handhelds already exist and cost that much. GPD Pocket for example.

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              I don’t think they’ll be able to sell for that price with the current hardware component availability issues. Maybe mid to late 2022.

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                  3 years ago

                  CPUs, APUs and GPUs aren’t the only components which are in short supply right now. Think about VRM chips, EEPROMs, flash storage, …