Steam Deck officially supports a massive amount of games, easily providing players more choice than what is available on the Nintendo Switch.
With BattlEye anti-cheat breaking GTA Online on the Steam Deck, backlash from fans may be answered as Valve says they're looking for a fix.
Steam is set to show up at next month's PAX Australia 2024 but it's not clear if it'll be bringing its gaming handheld to the show.
The 'Steam Deck 2.0' needs to make use of the AMD Ryzen Z2 chips if it wants a fighting chance against the competition.
I think when the next wave of these handhelds release I'll see what's available and finally grab one. The handheld aspect is nice, but I really just need something small to take with me when traveling. Been using my Series S, which has been good, but it would be nice having my PC library on the go.
Steam Deck OLED is the best gaming device I've owned in 35 years. Give it a chance and you might be quite happy.
I appreciate it is a great device, but simply not enough to run the games I play. I’m also going to wait for a Z2E or Z3E OLED version of Steam Deck before jumping in.
I want to run games at medium/optimized settings at 60fps for 3hrs+, and we are not there yet.
Tbh, I mostly play on my Steam Deck OLED since I got it, leaving my Series X in the dust. There's something really enjoyable about handheld gaming, and the speakers and screen are amazing on this device, despite it being 800p.
I have the Rogue Ally and miss the Steam Deck, i love the extra power of the Ally but i am sooo tired of a million issues with windows and games, i miss the simplicity of SD, you launch a game and it works as long as it's supported, period, Valve really turned PC gaming in a console experience, so SD 2 is day one for me.
Had the Steam Deck OLED, sold it for a Legion Go, then sold the Legion Go to get a Steam Deck OLED again. SteamOS is so much better than Windows.
Deck doesn't need a "fighting chance". Specs have never won in the grant scheme of things. Value has, and the Deck has significant value and usability advantages over its so called "superior" competitors. Ask Nintendo how being in 1st place in sales in the next gen race with last gen handheld hardware works.
Nintendo has good exclusive first party titles to compete with the rest, so that's not quite a fair comparison
Ask Nintendo how much that helped them with the Gamecube and the Wii U. Exclusives alone aren't really anything, they are just one factor in what makes a devie provide value.
The steam deck has been my go to device since I got it.
I've tried an Ally and LeGo, both are decent handhelds, but I prefer the design of the deck with steam OS and window boot.
If they release a Deck 2 with a big enough upgrade. I'd definitely get one of those.
it would be rad if they used the same board layout and cooling allowing previous owners to upgrade.
It's much larger than that, if you factor emulation and how easy it is to run pretty much any "unsupported" game on the Deck using Bottles.
technically speaking it also includes Nintendo Switch libraries..
Even without emulation, it’s massively broader than switch. This is so obvious I’m surprised it’s merited an article.
No shit.
Can't wait to get a Steam Deck OLED soon!