With respect, Asus doesn't deserve your money right now anyway. Poor QC, poor support, lots of controversies right now.

Asus has fallen far in quality while still charging premium prices. Buyer beware.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this thread. As new games come out that push the envelope for what technology can support, lower power platforms and parts will struggle. It's always been this way. In the PC world older hardware just slowly starts to show its age vs new game releases with an inability to keep up high frames...then not even mediocre frames...then when you find yourself under 30fps you gotta move on. On consoles, they just stop making games that support your hardware. Hogwart's Legacy isn't available at all on PS3, right? You just get cut off.

The Steam Deck is a 7W-15W APU system. It was never recommended that someone buy a Steam Deck to play the newest, most demanding games at high frame rates in perpetuity. If it could do that for a little while on low settings, cool. But that was always been considered a cherry on top, not some sort of expectation. The expectation here was the ability to run a lot of new stuff really well and almost all of the stuff released prior to the launch of the Deck (say, PS4 era and back). It does all of that.

Is it a great introduction to PC gaming? It most certainly is. The hardware is excellent, thousands of games are compatible with it, games are generally less expensive, you can stream to it, you can install games from any other storefront, use virtually any USB-enabled input device released in the last 25 years, dual boot Windows if you want, and it is an emulation monster to boot. Hell, it plays Switch games better than the Switch, and puts out graphics that the Switch can't even approach.

But it's not great if your only intention is the play the newest, most demanding releases in the world of gaming. Then again, you're not going to have a good mobile experience with those games on PC outside of a laptop with a proper discrete GPU at 3x-10x the price. Maybe the Asus Ally at 2x the price? IDK.

Pretty crazy when you say it out loud, given how pivotal CoD has been to gaming for almost 20 years. It defines multiplatform gaming along with like...Madden. It's in that 1st tier of games people think of when talking about multiplatform games. And clearly it will remain multiplat for the rest of the decade. After that tho...glhf 👀

It's okay. The superior Yuzu will keep us warm until it's ready.

90 people is a big chunk of a studio for all but the very biggest developer houses.

Hope they all land on their feet. Being unemployed in this economy is a bad trip.

An Unreal Tournament player? You a man of taste and class.

I also never got into CSGo. I was busy with: UT '99 - 2004 --> TF2 + Halo --> MW and Battlefield --> Overwatch --> Destiny 2 + OW2 + TF2. A little Valorant mixed in but not that much.

100% going to give CS2 a try, though. Though I'll be at a helluva disadvantage vs players who've been playing CSGo for literally a decade.

Speaking of, I need to redeem my free copy. Thanks, AMD!

I legit thought this was a troll thread. I had no idea Counter Strike 2 was announced. That's an earth-moving announcement for the PC world. Valorant am cry.

I'm now awaiting Team Fortress 3's move to Source 2 as my most anticipated game of the new decade. That would make my Steam friends list absolutely explode with excitement. TF2's class-based approach and popularity literally changed FPS gaming for PC and consoles forever. There is no Overwatch or class-based CoD/Battlefield/Battlefront without the wild success of Team Fortress 2. And in many ways, none of those games equal what TF2 does with its classes. Those who've played Spy in TF2 know that the level of excitement and exhiliration that comes with sneaking up on an enemy that thinks your an ally, stabbing them in the back in the middle of their team and getting away is like...the best feeling in all of FPS gaming. lol

What an insane announcement. But not surprising given Valorant encroaching on their territory. Everybody is going to come back home for Counter Strike 2. No contest at all. Especially if everyone's old cosmetics are coming over 1:1.

I don't have any in-between games. All of the games I play are GAAS games.

• Diablo 3/4
• Destiny 2
• Dota 2
• League of Legends
• Team Fortress 2
• Valorant
• Overwatch 2 (sometimes)
• Elite: Dangerous

Point is, I literally never have a moment where I'm "in between" games. There's always new content in one of my mains to go collect. And the nice thing about it is that these games are all minimal investments or outright FREE, so my gaming costs are largely limited to hardware. If I didn't buy another new game, I'd still have enough games I haven't even played but still own to last me damn near through 2030.

It's good to be a PC gamer, btw.

You didn't ask me but...yes, they should.

If there's a market for them, why wouldn't they leverage their brand power to continue to expand their profits? They almost have a fiduciary duty to do so in a capitalistic organization of the economy. Plus the PSP and Vita were beloved by their respective communities.

The product would not be for me as mobile gaming isn't for me (it's extremely rare for me to not be driving myself or walking if I'm on the go, and if I'm at home...why the hell would I game on a mobile device and not my consoles or liquid-cooled 4090 PC?) but for those who really enjoy mobile gaming would love to see another Sony handheld. The Last of Us Part 3 playable at 60fps on a mobile device would blow minds and is realistic given the potency of the latest APUs.