It served me well for a while to take to a friend’s place we often go to for the WE, or when I get visit, to play together. Because local coop games are mostly indies/pixel art and have no problem running 1080p 60. Playing “it takes 2” is not that great though, rather underpowered for it.
I didn’t find buying a mini pc, even with rdna3, was really worth it, especially as it has no upgrade path. I could live with the deck’s limitations and spare 800, or save for later.
However if you want to play something like rdr2, 720p 30 fps isn’t great on a big tv, you’d be much better served by even a currently super cheap 6600xt and 5600 combo. Same goes for playing 4p mario kart 8 with yuzu.
So I saved for a while and now built a sff m-atx pc around 6700xt and 5600 to game at 1440p 120hz on 4k tv, much better experience and more interesting to me than getting an oled deck, keeping the lcd for travel and when tv is used by gf (still can stream to it, it’s connected with Ethernet to my wifi 6 router so works well)
My experience: sort of.
It served me well for a while to take to a friend’s place we often go to for the WE, or when I get visit, to play together. Because local coop games are mostly indies/pixel art and have no problem running 1080p 60. Playing “it takes 2” is not that great though, rather underpowered for it.
I didn’t find buying a mini pc, even with rdna3, was really worth it, especially as it has no upgrade path. I could live with the deck’s limitations and spare 800, or save for later.
However if you want to play something like rdr2, 720p 30 fps isn’t great on a big tv, you’d be much better served by even a currently super cheap 6600xt and 5600 combo. Same goes for playing 4p mario kart 8 with yuzu.
So I saved for a while and now built a sff m-atx pc around 6700xt and 5600 to game at 1440p 120hz on 4k tv, much better experience and more interesting to me than getting an oled deck, keeping the lcd for travel and when tv is used by gf (still can stream to it, it’s connected with Ethernet to my wifi 6 router so works well)