Steam Deck

Yeah looks interesting, curious to know how it will perform as you will be able to connect it to an external monitor / tv. Might be able to play some dota or cs go while on the move.
 
It looks pretty good. I like that it's basically a PC, so you can run whatever on it. You can also attach a kb/mouse/screen etc.
 
If this thing is as powerful as they it is, it will be the death knell for non-Nintendo portable games. The ports of popular PC multiplayer titles run like kak on Switch (Apex, Rocket League). Sony said they will be bringing more Playstation titles to PC. Microsoft Gamepass, EA Play subscription services are both on Steam now. This runs SteamOS natively, but you can install windows on it, has laptop hardware, Steam is only an app on-top, therefore you can install Ubisoft Launcher, Epic Games Services as well and expand your library even further.
 
Just this week I found out I've got some BTC on CEX from 2017 that I completely forgot about. I was this close to bringing it over to Luno and withdrawing it and buying a new phone.

I'm glad I didn't. I'll leave it there until launch and buy from a US store that accepts Bitcoin :love:
 
zoozi said:
If this thing is as powerful as they it is, it will be the death knell for non-Nintendo portable games. The ports of popular PC multiplayer titles run like kak on Switch (Apex, Rocket League). Sony said they will be bringing more Playstation titles to PC. Microsoft Gamepass, EA Play subscription services are both on Steam now. This runs SteamOS natively, but you can install windows on it, has laptop hardware, Steam is only an app on-top, therefore you can install Ubisoft Launcher, Epic Games Services as well and expand your library even further.
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With the size of games nowadays, I doubt that 512GB NVMe drive will fit more than 10 AAA games. My plan is also to load Windows on it and then install all the launchers.

I'm sure in time, I'm sure there will be a way to use a larger drive.
 
The_Ogre said:
With the size of games nowadays, I doubt that 512GB NVMe drive will fit more than 10 AAA games. My plan is also to load Windows on it and then install all the launchers.

I'm sure in time, I'm sure there will be a way to use a larger drive.
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Maybe the game's will be smaller on this ? I know some games on my Switch are smaller than the Xbox, but it's speculation for now.

I see you can increase with a Micro SD card as well :)
 
VoodooBean said:
I see you can increase with a Micro SD card as well :)
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I'm not seeing that as a strong selling point. Micro SD cards are as reliable as CD's were back in the day. I've got two Pi's lying in a cupboard somewhere because I just got gatvol of corrupt SD cards.

But maybe it's just me :p
 
The_Ogre said:
With the size of games nowadays, I doubt that 512GB NVMe drive will fit more than 10 AAA games. My plan is also to load Windows on it and then install all the launchers.

I'm sure in time, I'm sure there will be a way to use a larger drive.
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Only worry is how much the Windows overhead will affect performance, maybe removing features and tweaks will help, SteamOS is probably really lean.
 
The_Ogre said:
I'm not seeing that as a strong selling point. Micro SD cards are as reliable as CD's were back in the day. I've got two Pi's lying in a cupboard somewhere because I just got gatvol of corrupt SD cards.

But maybe it's just me :p
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Well some cards are decent and run like one of your entry level external ssd's, I know the switch doesn't allow the full potential of a fast micro card.

If I can recall it only allows 100 mg/s on the switch ( I could be wrong but that's what I read on an old reddit forum )
 
zoozi said:
Only worry is how much the Windows overhead will affect performance, maybe removing features and tweaks will help, SteamOS is probably really lean.
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Yeah I was thinking the same earlier, hopefully it has it's own UI and app's like the current gen console's

But let's wait and see :)
 
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It looks like natively SteamOS is a Linux variant, so it can only play a smallish percentage of all steam games. The ideal way to go will be to replace that with Windows asap.
 
animal531 said:
It looks like natively SteamOS is a Linux variant, so it can only play a smallish percentage of all steam games. The ideal way to go will be to replace that with Windows asap.
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Nah, Proton can easily handle almost all games with a slight nick in overhead loss these days (even lower when they optimise vkd3d soon), and because of this announcement, Valve is going full steam (heh) ahead on getting the third party launchers and online DRM suites working / whitelisted for those last few games that are predominantly online only.

If one were to run mostly emulators and native games on this thing, Linux would be a no-brainer due to the lower resource usage and currently abysmal OpenGL + slightly worse Vulkan AMD stack on their Windows drivers.
 
These toys are becoming a very niche market in SA with our economy blown to hell. I have personally never owned one of these handheld consoles and only see myself buying one of these when I have a lot of extra cash laying about which might not be any time soon. The cost makes me rather consider buying a newer component for my PC or upgrade my RAM, etc.
 
Crumbl0x said:
Nah, Proton can easily handle almost all games with a slight nick in overhead loss these days (even lower when they optimise vkd3d soon), and because of this announcement, Valve is going full steam (heh) ahead on getting the third party launchers and online DRM suites working / whitelisted for those last few games that are predominantly online only.

If one were to run mostly emulators and native games on this thing, Linux would be a no-brainer due to the lower resource usage and currently abysmal OpenGL + slightly worse Vulkan AMD stack on their Windows drivers.
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I found this site where you can check for Proton compatibility for your favourite games:
 
animal531 said:
I found this site where you can check for Proton compatibility for your favourite games:
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100%, I just wished ProtonDB purged their database for a fresh start because a lot of the early results from 3 years ago are still tallying the count on the negative side.

I do retract my statement however, I'd say about 80% are working great and a further 5% could be boosted when DRM is out of the way in the future.

I'm not against someone loading Windows on that device, especially if they'd want a portable workstation that can be game-ified, I was only replying to the first statement on a small percentage of games being playable.
 
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