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No one needs this cryptocurrency-powered Steam Deck competitor (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Playtron and Mysten Labs have announced the SuiPlay0X1, a new Steam Deck-alike that is being billed as "the world's first blockchain native handheld games console."

BREAKING: announcement from onstage at #SuiBasecamp: we’re excited to share the first handheld gaming device with native Web3 capabilities – the SuiPlay0X1, powered by @PLAYTR0N!

For the SuiPlay 0X1, that means tight integration with the Sui blockchain, which claims lower fees, faster transaction speeds, and easier scalability than some other crypto coins.

Playtron is "attempting to extract the PC gaming ecosystem from Windows and recontextualize in our own operating system," CEO Kirt McMaster told VentureBeat.

Maybe Sui has fixed these problems, but so far, evidence suggests that cryptocurrency is still more useful as a speculative asset than an everyday payment option.

Without even vague gestures toward key details like specs, price, or planned release date (beyond "2025"), it's hard to even evaluate how the 0X1 would work as a gaming device.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

faster transaction speeds

If there is one complaint I have had with Steam, it’s that the step between clicking buy and receiving my game on my account takes too long /s