Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"

• Lesrid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some people like a lighter weight and different grips. Lots of cases have a kickstand where you can prop up the deck and use your favorite controller.

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  • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can’t it also dock to a TV or monitor?

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    • kholby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes

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    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you have a dock. Maybe I’ve been unlucky but I don’t recommend the official dock. Every time I want to use the deck in a docked mode I have to rewire everything in the correct order to get the dock to output a normal resolution. Wire it in the wrong order and you either get no output or you get low resolution output with weird artifacts.

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      • keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have the thin silver JSAUX one and don’t have an issue like that, but sometimes it refuses to charge until I reseat the AC adapter.

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      • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’ve used multiple docks and never had this issue on the official one. Do you have this issue on other docks, or just the official one?

        I would guess it’s a software issue on the device rather than some kind of compatibility problem

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like the steam deck and use it as a controller, but you could make the same argument about the switch. Regarding the switch, my answer would be that while it is a controller, it is - IMHO - a poorly designed and uncomfortable-to-use controller.

  While you and I like the ergonomics of the deck, others may not. One can hardly blame those people for wanting something they feel more usable.

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• RacerX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I use it in a dock most of the time.

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