1 Gbit internet connections are not yet universal. And some parts of the world still have slow internet.
jokro@feddit.org 2 days ago
I can also just download them on each device and have better load times?
mereo@piefed.ca 2 days ago
ashughes@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Yup! Sitting here on 70 down / 18 up, fastest money can by around here. If I’m going to play a game I haven’t downloaded yet I usually have to plan a day in advance.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Copy it over the network instead so its on the internal memory of both devices. Uses your fast LAN instead of slow internet.
ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Steam supports local network transfers, they added this feature a few months after the Steam Deck was announced.
UltraMagnus@startrek.website 1 day ago
It’s good for rural areas and areas without many internet options. Even my internet isn’t really that bad, and it would still take a few hours to download a game that large. It would be convenient to just take an SD card from one device and put it into another.
I’m glad that they’re thinking about these edge case scenarios. Valve is good about this- for example, I’ve never needed any of steam’s accessibility options, but I’m glad they are there.
scala@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Correct. You can also share the download from one machine to another on your WiFi. And even across your friends(for faster torrent-like download).
You can also use your PC as a cloud host and the frame/machine streams the game off that PC rather than needing all the graphics powered the device itself.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Or if they implement a copy feature, move the SD card over and copy a game to internal, so you can more quickly transfer over a game without removing it from the SD card.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Pretty sure Steam also supports local file transfers for game downloads. Like if your PC has a game downloaded and you start to download it on your Deck, the Deck will ask if you want to download it directly from your PC. It means your download speed is primarily limited by your LAN hardware, (which is probably at least gigabit these days), instead of whatever arbitrary speed cap your ISP has implemented.
anguo@piefed.ca 2 days ago
You consider 150GB small?!?
The biggest games I have downloaded were around 80GB, and I found that excessive.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 days ago
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Anything over 35GB is luxury
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I still find tf2 at 32gb enormous
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Considering the amount of maps and models added over the years, I don’t really find that enormous
jokro@feddit.org 2 days ago
I dont think it’s small, but small enough so that several of them fit on the 512GB SSD
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
call of duty player, probably?