Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.

art@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All (most?) of your games will run on your future computers.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can play DOS games just fine right now, so yes it’s a good bet. And a far better bet than the PS6 being backwards compatible.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The crazy thing for me is that I have a little handheld specific for dos games. The problem I run into every time is having to setup computer keyboard bindings for each game to play them using the built-in controller. I really want retroarch or another dos emulator to do profiles for different games and I haven’t seen that yet.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Unless they change CPU architectures.

    And even then it’s no guarantee. Plenty of games needed support from the likes of GoG to run. Hell, I couldn’t even play Ex Machina because I had a HDR monitor and the game detected that and completely broke. Disabling HDR in Windows did nothing.

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    • TheYang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unless they change CPU architectures.

      well. there’s already winlator (basically box86 / wine-wrapper for android).
      Not as polished and far as Proton is, but the bones are there.

      A CPU architecture change wouldn’t be a deathblow.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ex Machina the movie or the 2016 “game”?

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      • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Fucking auto correct…

        It was Nex Machina.

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• XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Device, maybe. What happens to the games bought from a DRM monopoly?

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It plays piracy-reclaimed games just fine.

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  • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    While valve has a lot of deserved goodwill, that’s always the problem - they’re well-behaved, but set up in a way in which the customer has no leverage if they where to change their approach tommorow.

    Good thing drm-free games run just as well on the steam deck.

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• ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  These devices have different use cases. Steam Deck also is digital only. If publisher decides to kill a game, they can control whether you can or can’t play the game. PS5 Pro is expensive, but so are video cards nowadays. PS5 Pro is just following a trend set years before, including the shift from physical games and cost. The only way to stop anti-consumer trends is to stop buying expensive hardware (PS5 Pro included) Also, give some love to physical games.

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  • techwithjake@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Saying the Steam Deck is digital only is like saying a tower computer is digital only. That’s purely false. If you can put it on a tower computer, you can put it on the Steam Deck.

    All the Steam Deck, like many modern tower computers, needs for physical copies is a USB media reader.

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    • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If we can argue that Sony will stop supporting the PS5 in the future, who’s to say in the future, (without the good leadership), Steam won’t restrict what can be put on the Steam Deck? We have a lot of arguments for wanting a Steam Deck and an alternative OS to boot for gaming, but saying PS5 will be bricked in the future is not a strong one.

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      • techwithjake@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Because the Steam Deck is just computer hardware. I can already install whatever OS I want to and Steam won’t know that it’s a Steam Deck anymore.

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      • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        • Take Steam Deck
        • Wipe OS and install Bazzite/Nobara
        • Install Heroic Launcher / Non Steam Launcher
        • Install games from them

        Nuclear apocalypse happens and internet is down

        • Get ISOs of games in a USB drive
        • Plug it into the deck and install

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      • art@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Beacause, Today, I can already load another OS on the Steamdeck. Not so much on the PS5.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  After over 3 decades as a gamer and tech user this is maybe the single most consistent important benefit for any open platform were you can just install Linux.

  The rest is nice but this one means that 10 or 20 years from now your hardware might have been repurposed for something else and still be useful and in use whilst a closed platform will just be more junk in a junkyard or sitting in a box of those things you’ve kept just because you don’t like to throw expensive stuff away but will in practice never use again.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also I’m that scenario, you know Valve only gave it up for something dramatically better.

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