Valve introduces Steam Deck

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You all ready for the biggest happening of the week? Steam deck embargo ends today baby!

E: the guy I posted earlier is doing a live Q&A about the deck in about an hour. I don't really know who he is or have seen anything else from him but the couple of deck videos he put out were pretty informative so could be good early source of information.
Double Edite: some early emulation stuff is in. It runs Switch and PS3, more demanding games are mixed but seems to handle some stuff no problem at 60fps
 
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ZMOT said:
the problem is certain plastic at some point looks like @Pissmaster's post, after people sweat into it for hours. don't even have to be filthy (quite a few people are tho)

depending on popularity setting how big the third party market is they sometimes offer clear cases as replacement.
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But home consoles wouldn't have that risk.

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Unless you're talking about the "yellowing" of ABS plastic, which happens regardless of it being translucent or not (Gameboys tend to become yellow, and so do the Glacier Blue GBAs) and also takes many years to happen (unless you're a smoker).
 

Why am I not surprised that Valve would drop a game without fanfare just to head their new system?
 
Pissmaster said:
Yeah, when it looks good, it looks really good. At least they've been putting out translucent PlayStation controllers over time for every console, like around the mid-late point in each one's life.

I'm disappointed I didn't get my piss-themed PS4 controller that came with a Death Stranding bundle.
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These things go for a mint now. Well I guess scalpers do that with everything.
Kane Lives said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mVDFJRM6F9k
Why am I not surprised that Valve would drop a game without fanfare just to head their new system?
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I was expecting this to be another small VR title before the end of it, was surprised in two ways. Sure is one way to get people on board.
 
store.steampowered.com

Steam Deck Deposit - Steam Deck: Q1 Shipping Details - Steam News

Hi! Happy launch day! We’ve seen some questions about what it means to be in the Q1 reservation group, and when these folks will receive their emails. Here’s how it breaks down. All people who are in the Q1 reservation window on the Steam Deck store page will receive an order email by the end of...
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Steam Deck: Q1 Shipping Details
Hi!

Happy launch day! We’ve seen some questions about what it means to be in the Q1 reservation group, and when these folks will receive their emails. Here’s how it breaks down.
  • All people who are in the Q1 reservation window on the Steam Deck store page will receive an order email by the end of March. (Q1 is Quarter 1, or January through March).
  • The first batch of emails has already gone out this morning.
  • The next batch of emails will go out on Monday, March 7th. (It turns out the logistics work out better if we don’t try to ship over a weekend.)
  • We’ll continue sending emails to Q1 reservers in the order their reservations were made on a weekly basis through the end of March (March 14th, 21st, 28th)
  • In April, we’ll start going through the Q2 queue in a similar fashion.
We’re working through our production schedules, and will have news soon for folks in the After-Q2 bucket.
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I'm not sure where the Nvida talk in the previous pages is coming from, Gamescope does not work on Nvidia GPUs, at least the Arch Linux repo version, and everything I see in videos show a AMD APU. Are you talking about some co-processor or IP block thing?
 
So far the main complaints from early reviews seem to be around the software which valve is continually updating so maybe that will get ironed out.

Performance wise it's on par or in some cases batter than the Aya/GPD devices which have beefier processors and are way more expensive and it absolutely mops the floor with the switch lmao

Still, I don't see it as being in the same space as Nintendo. Let's face it, it's an enthusiast device for PC nerds. I just hope the buy in is big enough for this type of device to become more mainstream so we get continued innovation and improvement.
 
Deadwaste said:
you probably get an avatar a background and maybe some emotes or something for buying it you can use on steam idk
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Yeah pretty much. Steam has a million things you can do to make your profile page all animated and spiced up and some people go hog wild with that shit.
 
Stasi said:
Still, I don't see it as being in the same space as Nintendo. Let's face it, it's an enthusiast device for PC nerds. I just hope the buy in is big enough for this type of device to become more mainstream so we get continued innovation and improvement.
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It's going to be a niche product no matter what sincerely.
The majority of people don't like to mess around with troubleshooting (which can be a recurrent case on "unusual" system setups depending of the games, be japanese ports or decades-old games) and I feel that way the more I get older. If the Steam Deck was released around my late teenage years and early twenties, I could have seen the appeal.

Switch has also more versatility for the whole handheld/tablet/home console aspect with local co-op out of the box.
 
BananaSplit said:
It's going to be a niche product no matter what sincerely.
The majority of people don't like to mess around with troubleshooting (which can be a recurrent case on "unusual" system setups depending of the games, be japanese ports or decades-old games) and I feel that way the more I get older. If the Steam Deck was released around my late teenage years and early twenties, I could have seen the appeal.

Switch has also more versatility for the whole handheld/tablet/home console aspect with local co-op out of the box.
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@Deadwaste Thank you. If I get it at all this year--and that's a big if--it'll probably be the $400 one.

Anyways, my greatest concern is whether I'll be able to play all the games on my account on it. As of right now, the games I play are for potato PCs or Xbox 360 gen. That might change if this thing works like I think it does. I certainly don't want to spend $400 for just a Battletech machine.
 
Stasi said:
Still, I don't see it as being in the same space as Nintendo. Let's face it, it's an enthusiast device for PC nerds. I just hope the buy in is big enough for this type of device to become more mainstream so we get continued innovation and improvement.
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I get the obvious comparisons to the switch, but never understood it being a switch killer since the switch is already a massive success. Hell the switch already wins just by virtue of being the only system I ever see in stores.

Gaben also came out and said that the 512GB version was the one that sold the most, showing that it was enthusiast demand pushing this thing the most.

Personally I couldn't see myself spending 650 on a handheld. I'm still salty at myself for spending 500 on my 3070. I got the cheapest version but so wish there was a $450 128GB version.
 
Niche appeal aside I'm totally for the Deck.

There are certain things about Nintendo that makes me hope they trip on their shoelaces seething about it.
 
AlephOne2Many said:
Niche appeal aside I'm totally for the Deck.

There are certain things about Nintendo that makes me hope they trip on their shoelaces seething about it.
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I despise subscription services, especially when it provides a marketplace where I have to buy the services or goods separately. It's just a corporation imposing a big tax on the individual.
 
BananaSplit said:
It's going to be a niche product no matter what sincerely.
The majority of people don't like to mess around with troubleshooting (which can be a recurrent case on "unusual" system setups depending of the games, be japanese ports or decades-old games) and I feel that way the more I get older. If the Steam Deck was released around my late teenage years and early twenties, I could have seen the appeal.
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in theory linux should be even more idiot-proof than windows (in some cases it already is), and don't forget the steam deck is fixed hardware, so there's nothing preventing devs to put in a hardware profile by default (steam could even offer community profiles, but given the myriad of different configs and options probably pointless), but even if not it wouldn't surprise me if someone writes a guide for it in the game's page.

so any game with proper steam deck support should be click + install just like on a console.

Dr. Geronimo said:
Personally I couldn't see myself spending 650 on a handheld. I'm still salty at myself for spending 500 on my 3070. I got the cheapest version but so wish there was a $450 128GB version.
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really depends on your use case, just like laptops. I wouldn't need one, but if you're on the move a lot it certainly makes sense, and I'd assume a steam deck is less hassle if your purpose is gaming on the go. I don't expect to make it that big a splash, but then again the switch sold gangbusters (in part due to the games, but the same people are begging for ports constantly as well), so who knows really.
 
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