The Steam Deck: The most gaming power you have ever held; 499$ coming next December

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/

@MonsieurX: Was about to post this and glad I saw this thread. Can you add more details on your own opinion please. You know just a vid without discussion isn't the best way to make a thread please.

Love the notion of having my entire steam library portable.

But I don't think I'd go for this.

Gonna had my opinion here since you beat me by a minute. This thing is gonna fail massively. Xbox is only $299, it has no Oled which even Nintendo has Oled, and it’s not 4K. Such a waste. And $649 just for a little more space, gtfo!

Gonna call this the Valvita

Wow, very cool!! I bet Xbox is kicking themselves right now lol Switch will still outsell this lol.

Emulation? 🤔

That's pretty affordable for what it is (starting at $399). Might put some pressure on Nintendo. But probably not.

It's emulation? ewwwwwwwww

SteamOS...🤮

While Nintendo still using a 0.8 Teraflop GPU from 2015 in 2021.

Nintendo wants to make profit on hardware its why you will never have cutting edge mobile hardware on them.

It will be 2024 when we get a Switch 2 and it will be the same power as this for the same price.

Meh, only 64gb. Should've been 128gb minimum.

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: This Steam box isn’t cutting edge. No JoyCons, crappy audio, no Oled, old memory, no adjustable stand, no IR reader, no NFC scanner, etc. Don’t even have 4K. And it’s emulation. It’s horriable.

Oh, there's an SD slot. That's good.

It'll definitely put the pressure on the OLED Switch to say the least. Switch OLED $350 vs Steam Deck $400 is gonna sting on Nintendo's consumers skipping the OLED. I'm interested but idk if it's something that I'll use alot. The design gives me Sega Game Gear vibe lol. I did have plans to buy the OLED but seeing this now, I'll think twice on it. Playing Jedi Fallen Order on the go, well that has my attention.

This could legitimately be strong competition for Switch if Valve play their cards right and having competition is good for the gaming market so hopefully if it does well, we'll see even more innovation.

You can use micro sd cards.

Get the base model buy a micro sd card of of 256-400gb and you are good.

Not bad, not great. Nintendo only launching a screen upgrade will actually work in their favor. The actual Switch 2 has a its target

Yeah, 64g is way too small for the games you’ll be playing. Valve was stupid to not make the storage much bigger.

wish this was a hybrid hand held.

wish xbox, sony, and nin made one handheld even if its 600 bucks it be worth it.

No, they aren't. It plays Xbox Game Studios games lol!!!!

They have a 512gb option and there are also expansion ports.

Lemmings said consoles were dying... I guess not.

@x_hedon: Yeah, for like $700 lol. This box is a joke.

I like this, but i hate the storage... base model is hardly anything. Alot of PC games take alot of space and with no physical options for this... mehhh FF online is 60 gigs on its own.. COD is 133gigs so the base model doesn't have enough space for even COD by its self.

At least with the switch i can buy games physical and keep the majority of it off my memory cards

LMAO that is what you consider technology?...

It has a Zen 2 CPU with 4 cores and 8 threads and a RNDA 2 8 CU GPU with 16GB LPDDR5, for a hand held device that is as cutting edge as it gets unless you go with a Apple M1 chip.

Digital foundry already did a video on Vega vs RDNA 1.0... the same CU count there was a 30% increase in performance, meaning that a 8 CU RDNA 2 chip could be anywhere from 30-50% faster than a 2400G APU, putting it in the performance bracket of a GTX 1050.

Which can run Rainbow Six Siege at 60FPS at 1080p and the Witcher 3 at 1080p 30FPS High settings... Any idea what the Switch version looks like?...

Cutting edge!

I have a Switch, I do not have a problem with its screen... I have a problem with its performance.

I personally don't have any interest in mobile gaming, but I can see the appeal of having your entire steam library and Gamepass right off the bat for $50 more than a switch. Plus, I noticed another selling point that would interest mobile PC gamers: "if you want more power, you’ll be able to stream games to the Steam Deck directly from your gaming PC using Valve’s Remote Play feature."

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: Its battery life is also being reported to 1-2 hours. Lol, what a failure. That’s cutting edge for you. I’m so impressed.

Hot stuff just off the press. I guess more info is coming out

2-8 hours.

@gifford38: it can "hybrid"

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: Source?

Valve stated 1-2 hours while gaming. Not 8 hours.

Lol it’s 8 hours web browsing. Lol

Too expensive.

I would rather just buy a gaming android tablet for that money

Day one for me.

@mesome713: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/15/22578783/valve-steam-deck-gaming-handheld-pc

As for the battery, “Steam Deck’s onboard 40 watt-hour battery provides several hours of play time for most games,” Valve says. “For lighter use cases like game streaming, smaller 2D games, or web browsing, you can expect to get the maximum battery life of approximately 7-8 hours.” Valve tells IGN that “You can play Portal 2 for four hours on this thing. If you limit it to 30 FPS, you’re going to be playing for 5-6 hours.”

@rmiller365: That is so sad. People will be playing games while plugged to the wall. Bro, I played Star Wars Fallen Order for an hour, now plugged to my PC playing lol.

My iphone 12 can play games for longer than that and it costs almost the same.

@ivangrozny: Not even that. Can buy a cheapo £50 - £70 one and play basically hundreds of R's on them.

I like Valve and their Willy Wonka hardware brainstorms, defend Steam Controller to the end. But who is this for?

This just proves that Nintendo had no excuse. This is powerful enough to emulate Switch, but only costs $50 more! This is faster than the Switch 3 will be! DAY ONE

Nintendo finally defeated! Third-party by 2025! This is where stagnation gets you!

0 interest in handheld gaming.

@techhog89: Wow, imagine being this clueless.

Maybe, I'll assume you can stream from your own PC?

@Random_Matt: I don't see why not - Steam and SteamOS allow this already on other PC "formats" (if that's what we'll be calling this)

yeah if i got this id want the 512 gig one or higher, at that point tho im better off just getting a gaming laptop

Are you a new generation of system wars special?... How does "4 hours and if you limit to 30FPS you can play 5-6 hours" translate to 1 hour exactly?...

Nice avatar you have there! Is that supposed to be a Switch broken into two?

If it was a bit more powerful I would definitely buy one.

I kind of want a handheld PC for my PC game collection

@Grey_Eyed_Elf: Cause when I play Star Wars on max I get 1 hour. It’s a joke of a handheld. My IPhone 12 puts this junk to shame.

The more I think about it, the more interested I am... not sure I can work up the motivation to spend the big bux on yet another piece of gaming hardware. But it's tempting

You play Fallen Order on your iPhone?