I've been wanting a Steam Deck and telling myself I don't need one and they keep trying to seduce me!
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Valve finally realised that there is more to seduction than just fried chicken
Yeah, I really have no need. The money would be better spent on hardware for my computer if anything. Still, I want one. I don't know why.
I was seduced, though the last time I played a PC game was somewhen in the 90s. Thought to get into that steam thing. Opened an account, ordered the steam deck, had the account blocked for fraud, my order cancelled, was not eager to share my ID with steam. Aaand still don't own one. Now I am just not up for it anymore. Maybe you can take that route.
I want one. It's a lot easier for me to start up a gaming session on the couch with a handheld without much fuss than on my computer at my desk. There are a lot of games I'd play more this way.
That's actually a fantastic price point. I have an ayaneo, so I have absolutely no need to pick up a Deck, but this will make it very tempting
Holy shit thats cheap
This is awesome! More decks in the wild is the best option!
Sure would be nice if they shipped to more regions.
Those are some very reasonable prices
Meh, $500+ for what is basically a $350 laptop crammed into a handheld form factor is not exactly what I'd call "reasonable".
I, for one, would actually be fine with buying a Steam Deck at that price just so that way Steam/Valve have incentive to continue their work on Proton (their answer to try and get unsupported games working on Linux and their own official SteamOS).
The trade-off of giving them incentive to work on Proton, which would help an estimated roughly 2.5 million "monthly active users" using Steam on Linux definitely seems reasonable to me at least.
Yeah but I don't want a laptop. Until people start making handhelds this good at that price (and there are competitors getting close) then the price seems fine.
What's the price difference with the brand new ones?
In the US:
- 64GB is $399
- 256GB is $529
- 512GB is $649
Hmm, I may actually pull the trigger on one of these, then. Is there any benefit to the higher capacity units if I can just pop in an SD card? I assume they can store games on the cards?
I have a 64gb with a large sd card. My recommendation is to get a 256gb. You will feel space starved with installing different versions of Proton, the shader cache(?), and the emulated Window's user folders.
If you get the 64gb you basically have to get an sd card. If you get bigger then you might not ever have to if you play relatively small games and you don't mind managing installed games.
Yeah, that would be the plan. I did the same thing with my Switch and it just automatically uses it as additional storage without any fuss. Does the Steam Deck do the same thing?
I hope they'll do Deck 2 some day. My current laptop is still so much stronger than the current Deck that there's no point of going there even though I'm quite interested.
Can anybody comment on how worth it is for the ones with better screens? I get the value of the larger size, but I'm happy with the 64gb plus sd card - I just have fomo if the screens make a difference.