TheYang

@TheYang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, index alone (no trackers, no controllers) is Quite a bit cheaper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally expect that they will want to cover hardware cost, while being willing to subsidize development cost with the steam store.
  So I think the low storage models will make a slight loss for valve in the beginning, while the higher storage models will get that back to even overall for valve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most disappointing part is the rumoured pricing of “aiming to be under $1000”.

  $1 is “under $1000”.

  at $999, even for the 1TB model, this is a really tough sell.
  I’m not sure I’d get one, even though I love what they’re doing, and want to support it.

  I really hope, that the “under $1000” is a misunderstanding from the “cheaper than index”, which currently sells for 539€ (~$625, incl tax) without controller and base stations.
  That would be a great price.
  I can just hope it’s nearer to that than the $1000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware Announcement - (This is wild)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think all of these are nice, if priced correctly

  Steam Frame needs to compete with quest, so prices over $800 are a really tough sell.
  Steam Machine needs to compete with consoles, PS5 (non-pro) and Series S, so prices over ~$700 will become really tough.

  Prices start becoming really good, if they manage to come it at ~$600 for Steam Frame and ~$500 for Steam Machine.

  But with current hardware prices, Valve being valve and no-one can know if they want to make money on the hardware, or if they are willing to sell at cost, or if they are willing to subsidize, who knows where we will land.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  surprisingly not most of the time I checked.

  Laptop/Mobile x86 seemed rather competetive to Laptop/Mobile ARM in performance/Watt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the price scales wayyyy better. Steam Deck starts at 313,65€ now.

  if you have less money, buy that, get an sd card, and if you enjoy it put an ssd in later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bloodborne in-game on Steam Deck with ShadPS4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to say this is extremely encouraging.
  I didn’t think that the steamdeck would have the raw performance. But it seems to me that it does, but the emulator is lacking optimization (understandably for such an early stage)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Game] Helldivers 2 Gets New Steam Deck Graphics Preset Alongside New Difficulty Level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience with Cyberpunk was that the Steam Deck preset was a good starting point, but wasn’t actually an ideal way to play the game.

  that is also propably subjective and may even depend on the deck you have, and in which areas the silicon lottery was good or bad to you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I preferred it because (as i understood) 8bitdo could only connect in xInput mode with a 2.4Ghz dongle, and in switch pro mode with bluetooth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  switch pro seems to have issues.
  I like xBox (removable batteries, good controller) and kingkong 2 pro (can connect to other consolwa, has accelerometer) and have both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If iFixit starts selling steam motherboards, can you buy just a motherboard and make a console-only steamdeck?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  An RX 6600 paired with a Ryzen 5600 would blow the Deck out of the water (3-4x depending on the measurement) for a very similar cost to a mid-range Deck.

  those two parts are 330€ new for me right now.
  I’d still need:
  a Mainboard, AM4 starts at 50€
  RAM, 16GB for ~25€
  Power Supply, 20-50€
  ssd 10-30€

  starting at 435€
  Actually, that seems reasonably competetive with the 64gb version (420€), depending on the other parts you choose (I’d not want to completely cheap out on Power Supply or Storage, so give that ~20€ more each).

  I’m surprised to be honest. Nice.