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- Comment on [Game] Palworld gets Steam Deck mod to improve performance 9 months ago:
Oof. Memory leaks?
- Comment on According to Dexerto Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS 9 months ago:
Any word on what the hardware specs are? Someone there used their brain and loaded up SteamOS, but the hardware needs to be worth the jump or it’s just a steam deck clone.
- Comment on MSI Launches Claw A1M Handheld Gaming Device With Core Ultra 7 CPU, Starts At $699 9 months ago:
I swear I’ll be dead before they figure out why they haven’t managed to take on the SteamDecks success. Put SteamOS on it. Put trackpads on it. What really separates this from the other devices? Slightly different hardware?
- Comment on [News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' 11 months ago:
Very true. It’s similar to NVIDIA in that way. Their money comes from data centers, licensing, and B2B - not gaming GPUs. I’m speaking in the terms of Windows on traditional consumer desktops and their position in that space. I don’t mean to sound like one of the usual “MS is dead any day now” people, cause frankly they are wrong.
- Comment on [News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' 11 months ago:
I imagine some of the smarter people at Microsoft are seeing the Steam Deck unfold and are realizing it’s a potential threat. Desktop is dying, and gaming is one of the few segments still doing alright in the space. Microsoft wants to make sure games continue to be made for Windows even as mobile and consoles take over the lion’s share of profits. They haven’t been buying up studios just to prop up Xbox 😉. The Deck runs Windows games, and if compatibility ever reaches a point that the average gamer doesn’t need to know they aren’t running Windows, Microsoft is in big trouble. With the progress made just in the last five years alone, it’s an eventual possibility.
Licensing is a cost in an already razor-thin market. If gamers won’t care that a device isn’t running Windows - they won’t install Windows on it, and the OEM will just pocket the difference. Valve also has an advantage traditionally enjoyed by console manufacturers. They can sell it at no profit or even a loss, because Steam Store sales will make the money back.
So long as Valve keeps steady progress and improving compatibility, they will carve out their niche. If they can somehow get studios with major multiplayer games to provide official support, the chicken and egg problem will solve itself.
- Comment on [News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' 11 months ago:
Fact of the matter is the most successful Linux devices are the ones that you don’t need to know Linux to use. Chromebooks and steam decks are popular because they don’t need tinkered with. You can if you want, but the average person can just use it.
- Comment on [News] SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' 11 months ago:
I hope it does because the biggest problem for handhelds like the Ally is the atrocious experience as soon as you leave steam big picture. Armor Crate is buggy as hell and trying to click anything in window with the joysticks is not fun. Not to mention the usual Windows shenanigans of update every damn day and spam me with bs about one drive and angry birds.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
The gameplay I watched raised some of the same concerns. Looting without purpose beyond selling it, and so many menus to do anything. Another is the planets. Is it really just land, go to place far as fuck away, loot, then return? I get that it’s a galaxy and people are going to be spread out, but it’s jarring how…empty it feels? In Skyrim and Fallout the journey is the fun, you can walk around and something bizarre or interesting will happen. I’m not expecting space to be filled to the brim, but the planets are empty feeling too? My expectation was you could detect things in space or on planets and they would be like the dungeons or vaults, with unique little stories that tie together if you explore enough.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
From the responses it seems like it’s a divisive game. You either like it or don’t. I’ll probably wait until it’s on sale and modded tear it apart like you recommended. And it’s funny running a steam deck how pretty much every game (even ancient ones like 688i Hunter-Killer) works out of the box. Just enable Proton and play. Now if only Vortex worked as easily… So I’m not too surprised Starfield works. I watched an hour of gameplay and it looks like it has the scavenging, but I didn’t see any use for it besides the fill-spaceship-with-random-object meme.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
My man. Me and my partner have totaled about 100 hours in baldurs gate, and I just started downloading phantom liberty. Is starfield worth it? The Reddit hive-mind has decided it hates it so I’m not listening to them. I basically want fallout in space.
- Comment on Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified 1 year ago:
The most successful Linux devices are the ones you don’t need to know Linux to use. The Steam Deck has been exemplary in that regard. In my experience, I haven’t had to do anything but use it. Even desktop mode is just click and play.