radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 @CarbonCore the deck supports two fight sticks at the same time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 As someone who is going back to school this year, steam deck is absolutely wonderful Provided they plan on selling it in India, of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Da faq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Technically you can install Windows OS and play GP games. I wonder if non-steam games added to library will work as well. That will be huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sach4life Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaniac Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 2 hours ago, R3D_D3ViL said: The dock is apparently good enough to run games on 'Balanced' setting (which i think is probably Medium-High) at 720p res with bells and whistles of current gen GPU's. Blown up to a bigger res on a monitor, the mileage in graphics will vary surely based on the games. It will not be eating into Switch sales at all because most people dont buy switch just to play indies. Agreed. But look at the value prop for Steam Deck. You can literally carry over your existing game library without having to do anything. It's gonna be crappy when blown up to a larger screen, but for people who want a portable gaming device, want AAA (non Nintendo) experiences and want to buy games for cheap - the deck ticks all of these boxes and more. Heck, folks can play games such as Skyrim/Doom on the go without having to pay the Switch tax. The only thing missing is Ninty games. It can potentially do everything else better than the Switch. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, l33tmaniac said: Agreed. But look at the value prop for Steam Deck. You can literally carry over your existing game library without having to do anything. It's gonna be crappy when blown up to a larger screen, but for people who want a portable gaming device, want AAA (non Nintendo) experiences and want to buy games for cheap - the deck ticks all of these boxes and more. Heck, folks can play games such as Skyrim/Doom on the go without having to pay the Switch tax. The only thing missing is Ninty games. It can potentially do everything else better than the Switch. I guess this would definitely eat into switchs third party market. I mean earlier, people used to buy games like witcher, Skyrim , doom, wolfenstein etc on switch just for the portability factor. Now they won't have to if they can afford this device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R3D_D3ViL Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, l33tmaniac said: Agreed. But look at the value prop for Steam Deck. You can literally carry over your existing game library without having to do anything. It's gonna be crappy when blown up to a larger screen, but for people who want a portable gaming device, want AAA (non Nintendo) experiences and want to buy games for cheap - the deck ticks all of these boxes and more. Heck, folks can play games such as Skyrim/Doom on the go without having to pay the Switch tax. The only thing missing is Ninty games. It can potentially do everything else better than the Switch. Ticks all the boxes for me surely. But Nintendo will be unfazed in the sense that people who buy Nintendo primarily buy them for their first party offerings. everything else is a bonus. And they were never in the specs game anyways. For all we can say, it was Switch's success that has pushed others to come out with such products. I personally love what Valve has come out with and cant wait to dive into my library with this. I am curious to see more info on its docked capabilities. Getting this here is gonna be a big hassle. Edited July 16, 2021 by R3D_D3ViL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 22 minutes ago, l33tmaniac said: Agreed. But look at the value prop for Steam Deck. You can literally carry over your existing game library without having to do anything. It's gonna be crappy when blown up to a larger screen, but for people who want a portable gaming device, want AAA (non Nintendo) experiences and want to buy games for cheap - the deck ticks all of these boxes and more. Heck, folks can play games such as Skyrim/Doom on the go without having to pay the Switch tax. The only thing missing is Ninty games. It can potentially do everything else better than the Switch. Also, (3rd party) games are much much cheaper on Steam than on Switch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 52 minutes ago, dylanjosh said: Also, (3rd party) games are much much cheaper on Steam than on Switch. https://store.steampowered.com/app/302510/Ryse_Son_of_Rome/ Going for 87 bucks. Damn! Nothing can beat steams pricing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggr happy ss Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, dylanjosh said: Also, (3rd party) games are much much cheaper on Steam than on Switch. He did mention without paying switch tax ,i think he meant the cheaper games only. Seriously this device is too tempting ,personally i am thinking of selling my switch . No doubt it has exclusives but besides Botw ,odyssey nothing really that stood out for me. It is mainly for indies which by default should be on steam as well and we also get the AAA 3rd party which i would prefer. Edited July 16, 2021 by triggr happy ss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylanjosh Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 IMO It will be best for playing indies and AA games and Steam has tons of those of high quality. I know they showed AAA games running on it but I'm still very sceptical of real world performance. Also considering games are usually not super optimized for PC the way they are for consoles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 4 minutes ago, dylanjosh said: IMO It will be best for playing indies and AA games and Steam has tons of those of high quality. I know they showed AAA games running on it but I'm still very sceptical of real world performance. Also considering games are usually not super optimized for PC the way they are for consoles. Maybe now they would be steam deck optimised. Maybe some games would have a special setting for the deck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 13 minutes ago, dylanjosh said: IMO It will be best for playing indies and AA games and Steam has tons of those of high quality. I know they showed AAA games running on it but I'm still very sceptical of real world performance. Also considering games are usually not super optimized for PC the way they are for consoles. What about emulation. Just imagine so many generations of different systems would run perfectly on it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panopticon Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 1 hour ago, radicaldude said: https://store.steampowered.com/app/302510/Ryse_Son_of_Rome/ Going for 87 bucks. Damn! Nothing can beat steams pricing! something something...Gamepass...something something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radicaldude Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 13 minutes ago, Panopticon said: something something...Gamepass...something something Cheapest way of playing ryse at the moment is via steam. I don't think it is on gamepass presently and the 50/ month offer is now over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Engineer Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) Is the battery in the steamdeck removable and replaceable? Edited July 16, 2021 by Engineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer_adi Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 Just imagine your current library, all ready to be played on the go, as soon as you get a steam deck, if you buy switch, then you gotta build your library from scratch. Huge incentives for potential switch pro customers like me, to get a steam deck instead now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l33tmaniac Posted July 16, 2021 Report Share Posted July 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, gamer_adi said: Just imagine your current library, all ready to be played on the go, as soon as you get a steam deck, if you buy switch, then you gotta build your library from scratch. Huge incentives for potential switch pro customers like me, to get a steam deck instead now. This. If the Steam Deck takes off, Switch would start making sense only for Nintendo games. This really ups the ante for the Switch Pro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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