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Steam Deck

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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/RevolutionaryAd8204 on 2024-09-14 15:50:43+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Even if it's priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it's sold very well. There's a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a playstation fan but I'd buy a PS5 pro before I'd buy a steam deck TBHQ. I have a negative interest in portable gaming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I think it's a stage of life thing. As I got older, got married, and had kids I found it increasingly hard to find time to play on my PC. The steam deck is perfect for short sessions you can stop and resume anytime, and I don't have to fight the kids for the TV or abandon everyone to sequester myself in the office.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I just straight up cannot do this. Either I'm spending time with family and giving them the attention they deserve. Or I'm spending time focusing on the game and the attention it needs for me to enjoy it. Multi tasking just leads to me ignoring both.

If it's a small child and you just need to make sure they're not killing themselves then I can do that. But besides that, to me it's one or the other.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The whole reason I bought my Steamdeck was because I couldn’t get the Portal (thanks to scalpers).

Now I hardly ever turn the PS5 on because I am playing tons of games on Steam instead. When I do I am usually running something over my LAN via Chiaki to my Deck so others in my house can watch TV.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I won't buy a portal. I probably would have bought a "PS4 in portal form factor" for twice the price, but streaming isn't worth it.

But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I probably would have bought a "PS4 in portal form factor" for twice the price, but streaming isn't worth it.

Which brings us back to the Steam Deck, which can also stream PS5 games like the portal, except in HDR (if you have the OLED).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They'd beat the Steam Deck's sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn't do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.