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• penquin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The steam deck the absolute most ergonomic handheld I’ve ever tried. It’s so fucking comfortable to game on. I love how they put the joystick the same level as the buttons where my thumb moves very naturally between the two. It has amazing touchpads. Great battery and performance. It’s just an amazing device.

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  • Klanky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Once I got a Steam Deck, going back to a Switch (for ToTK) feels super awkward for my right thumb. Like I have to hold it funny to adjust the camera and then shift to hit the buttons. Never noticed it before I got my Deck.

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    • penquin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      100%. I have a onexplayer and it’s very hard to play on it with the joystick directly under the buttons. I’m having to move my hand up and down constantly.

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• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Price, software, hardware quality, touchpads, gyro, and a decent sized community

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In short, Steam Deck was made so that the people at Valve would want to use the Deck. Meanwhile most of the competition is operating on “bigger numbers mean better product”.

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  • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I mean in a lot of ways they literally can’t compete on these things. Price/quality are difficult cause valve can sell their product at a loss (cause theyll make it back on steam sales), software is weird cause who is investing a whole OS to just sell hardware (valve can cause it’s directly tied to their marketplace).

    Id give you TouchPad, but I don’t know what the patents are on those, cause I’ve only seen that design on valve products.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t believe Valve is selling them at a loss, but they definitely have less pressure to profit because they are not a publicly traded company.

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      • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s not even about being publicly traded. I suspect they’re taking the console approach where you count on the attach rate (people buying steam games) to make you money.

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