I sold my gaming PC and replaced it with a Steam Deck. Yes - after trying stadia (and then buying a switch), graphics don’t scratch my itch nearly as much as portability. I already spend too much time sitting at a desk at work, when I am playing to relax I prefer being on a couch, bed, kitchen, garden, or wherever I happen to feel like, but definitely not tied to a desk.
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 months agoYeah, I’m curious about that as well. Makes me wonder if a lot of Steam Deck owners don’t own other gaming PCs, or if they just value portability/etc over graphics and framerate.
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
That’s why I put my gaming PC in the living (w/SteamOS)
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That’s definitely better but still doesn’t do it for me. One of my favourite pleasures is playing in bed on a lazy weekend morning 😄
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Playing in bed puts too much pressure on my elbows and my palms and blood ceases to flow but glad you enjoy it.
Telorand@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I bet it’s the latter. I love mine, and “good enough” is often just fine for portable gaming. I’d rather maximize battery than worry about beautiful graphics; that’s what my desktop is for.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I own a nice gaming PC. I just never really use it now that I have my SD. Veing able to game anywhere and immediately stop and start my game back up by just tapping the power button is exactly what I needed for gaming. As a “responsible” adult I don’t have a lot of undisturbed straight lengths of time to game at the pc, and if I only have 30 minutes, it’s like it isn’t even worth trying.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah I definitely feel that. As a parent with multiple kids, the suspend/resume of the deck is it’s best feature.
Domiku@beehaw.org 3 months ago
I did not own a PC for a while. I played BG3 exclusively with my Steam Deck hooked up to a monitor and M+KB. It was honestly great.
Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d actually bet it’s something different…
It’s less that you game on a steam deck because it’s portable, and more that because it’s portable you can game. There are people here and there that are like “yeah, I have a steam deck so I use that instead” but the sentiment I see more often is “I wouldn’t be able to game at all if it wasn’t portable - I can’t sit down for that long, I only have time on the train, I need to be near my kids” etc.
And this changes the dynamic. It’s less that these people have “desktop gaming” and “portable gaming” and are choosing to play the AAA games while portable. They only have portable gaming. And they choose to play the same good games everyone else is playing. The only gaming they do is on their deck. And they’re not going to be like “oh, why play a good game like BG3 if I can play a shitty portable game like xyz”.
These are just people’s primary gaming devices now. And if they can, they will choose to play the same good games everyone else is choosing to play. It doesn’t matter if it only runs OK, playing a good game with OK graphics is still better than playing a shitty game.