Valve isn’t the only option if you’re looking to take your PC library on the road.
Chris Brandrick writing for overkill asks, what if GTA played by the rules? "The Precinct tries it — and well, I can’t believe I enjoyed issuing parking tickets either."
It is all getting steamy on this week's GFN Thursday. The official and native GeForce NOW app is now rolling out for Steam Deck devices.
We also have six more games coming to GeForce NOW.
Shaz from Pixel Swish: "From the Asus ROG Ally X to the Lenovo Legion GO to the Steam Deck, we’ve gotten a lot of PC handhelds over the past few years. However, for as impressive and exciting as these PC handhelds are, they all fall shy in one way or another from my dream device."
Or, do yourself a favor and get a Steam Deck 😁
A significant portion of those "alternatives" are Android/Arm-based. So I wouldn't call them alternatives to a Handheld PC like the Steam Deck at all.
The rest are valid. GPD is known for being one of the first in this market and they produce some cool shit, but they are expensive, have a history of not honouring warranties and are known for cutting corners. So the buyer has to keep that in mind. Ayn is in a similar place and for the whole Loki series of devices, they took pre-orders with a promise of a Q4/22 release and even now most of those devices are either cancelled or without a release date. Aya is another one that has some skeletons in their closet, support from them is reported not easy to get and they did a huge bait and switch with one of their most recent releases by literally doubling their prices out of the blue. And finally, Onexplayer is pretty expensive and probably has the same issues with support and warranty, but to be honest there are very few reports of that brand as a whole.
And that leaves us with the Ally, which is an amazing device but has its own set of QC issues like the terrible SD card reader. But different from the rest, it also has the big advantage of being officially available in markets that not even the Steam Deck is. So depending on where you live, that might be the alternative for you.