Valve is excited to announce the official launch of Steam Deck, the powerful all-in-one portable gaming PC first revealed by the makers of Steam over the summer. Emails with order details start going out today to the first customers in the queue, with devices shipping immediately after. Steam Deck is the first handheld device designed to play Steam games, with a custom processor developed in cooperation with AMD that makes it comparable to a gaming laptop. You can play games from your Steam library wherever you go; and as an open PC, you can also install any software or connect with any hardware you want. Steam Deck starts at $399, with increased storage options available for $529 and $649.
Gabe NewellPC gamers and developers have always wanted a handheld option that plays all the great titles, Steam Deck gives them that."
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Y'all need to cancel your reservations so I can get mine.please/thanks
The Steam Deck is officially released, with an OS named after a certain Wise Wolf.
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
It wouldn't cover the whole area, but even accounting for the finger grips, there is volume there for a significant battery boost, which is critical for a device like this. It would have been a great value-added feature...
I'm looking forward to the 3D printed shenanigans from the community as these get into Makers' hands.
Now get cancelling those reservations people, I needs mine pre q2 too.
Free linux will never be a windows competitor, as that would require it becoming the antithesis of what linux is. A paid consumer distribution would be very interesting, sadly canonical is the closest weve come.
As well, SOS coming to the traditional desktop/laptop market may make for a true gaming PC alternative from boutique vendors (Origin PC, Cyberpower, etc) and specialized gaming lines (a ROG SOS gaming laptop line for example), and focused almost purely on the gaming side of things. Then it'd just be up to the user to install Linux packages for other functions they may want to add beyond gaming and basic web browsing.
The only people who will still be clogging up the preorder lines now are the same sort of "Instant Forgiveness" people who keep pre-ordering broken games like Cyberpunk and Eldenring that remain broken for the rest of the year they launched)
Of course, the real, question you should have is how many years will it be before we see the world's first Steam Hardware update...EVER (will it be the three-year-old Index, or the new Link?)
There is no software fix for that broken screen, that broken touch pad layout, or the broken back-side buttons!
My statement earlier was correct because Valve still has yet to revise any piece of hardware they've released
Are you also a Platinum Member for Chris Roberts "Turn your Credit Card into this Ship JPG" Club?
No facts brought by you equals f all points and not worth the conversation, bye now.
Oh so you edited your prior post, smart, though the fact I quoted your original, shorter arsegurgitation, none of that stuff is broken, it just doesn't suit your epean you tit.
With that said it's probable that only the 64GB model is probably at cost or slightly loss, the other models likely will have some margin on them but probably not enough for other manufacturers to compete meaningfully at that price point. Possibly if they go higher like in the $800s. And what they whiffed about the Steam Deck? The launch seems to have gone really really well.
There's really no major issues or anything.
The bad
The ugly
- When your favorite game glitches, crashes, or fails to boot.
Verdict: You have to be a specific kind of patient PC gamer to enjoy Deck in its current state. If you're not, wait for its software side to match the value of its price-to-performance ratio.The only people universally praising this box are the paid review sites that only care about securing their next review sample; not a game reviewer who actually tried using it at a local bar!
And that screen looks worse than my $35 PocketGo 1 screen made in China (so you can imagine how many cents Valve must have spent on this thing!) If people didn't care about nice screens on portable devices, then why the hell is any high-end smartphone selling? The broken back buttons, plus clunky rumble and the location of some of those touch pads will make using the thing clunky!
Anyone buying this expecting a console experience is clearly a non reading, or listening tard who likes shiney stuff with buttons. ..
As for the rest, arguable, others say different Linus of LTT fame, a handheld pc junkie(self confessed) with experience of the aya neo and many more rates the screen and controls very, very highly.
Even though he has issues with it, like the rumble (a minor issue at best on pc games)
So
Secondly chill the FF out it's a computer were debating not your wife or something FFS