Steam Deck (Handheld) Revealed

[SuikerBrood]

Must admit, in kinda interested in this.

[Rondras]

Im reading a lot of assumptions here about perfomance, battery life,etc specially comparing to the Switch. Guys,this isnt a switch, its a portable PC. And Valve knows what they’re doing.

I doubt this will be very future proof, like some have pointed out already. But its not gonna be “dead” on arrival either.

[GoroMajima]

@Hix

…rticle. 15-40w is going to see some serious throttling in modern games and that’s only going to get worse - the device doesn’t seem future proof, or even present proof, at all. I honestly have no idea who these devices are marketed to. The ergonomics and heft, coupled with seemingly dismal battery life (DF reckons ~2 hours would be the norm) mean it’s not really portable at all. The docked mode is a complete wash as this thing is not running games optimised for it (see, Nintendo Switch) and thus will fall apart on resolutions above 720p. On top of that, people thinking it’s the portable Xbox of their dreams seem to have somehow forgotten that xCloud is an actual thing and you can use it right now with the phone you already have. Heck, Razer Kishis are on sale on Amazon, do yourself a favour.

If I got this for lower end pc games. I would use this over my phone.

[Searsy82]

Your Library on Deck (steampowered.com)

Steam has a site up to see which games in your library are verified. Numbers arent good for me. Currently only about 10% of my games (1200 titles) are verified. Only half of those, ~60 games, are actually Verified. The other ~60 games are just “Playable”.

“1078 games untested”

[Vivir]

Steam Deck Review: Console Quality Handheld Gaming - Believe It!

[ShinMegamiTenseiX]

I want this thing to take off so Nintendo can get of their ass and make a much better Switch equivalent ASAP.

[Thebaconlife]

so is steamdeck more powerful than a series s?

If not I still dont see how it would be as hard to get a series s into portable form. Keep the screen 720 to put less load and save battery. dont have games do 120 for the same. keep the 60 fps at 720 and I feel a lot of series s games can make the jump personally feel like the screen doesnt need to be the same size as a switch. Make it vita size which is still great and again save battery. make it digital only so no internal reader needed etc. I totally feel like its doable but im not an engineer so im sure I sound dumb right now. Charge 300 and up for models with more memory

[BRiT]

@Thebaconlife

so is steamdeck more powerful than a series s?

Nope.

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@Thebaconlife

so is steamdeck more powerful than a series s?

If not I still dont see how it would be as hard to get a series s into portable form. Keep the screen 720 to put less load and save battery. dont have games do 120 for the same. keep the 60 fps at 720 and I feel a lot of series s games can make the jump personally feel like the screen doesnt need to be the same size as a switch. Make it vita size which is still great and again save battery. make it digital only so no internal reader needed etc. I totally feel like its doable but im not an engineer so im sure I sound dumb right now. Charge 300 and up for models with more memory

Steam deck is weaker then PS4… DF approximates it to be a PS4 but at 720p resoultion compared to 1080p of PS4

[petra-vee-cee]

Has anyone received their email inviting them to purchase yet? I was in the December 2021 batch before they delayed the release, but no email yet.

[TheBrightestSun]

Does it use a special port for charging?

[anon98342452]

I thought I saw a link somewhere that would show you where you were at in the preorder queue (as in, what quarter). Google skills are failing me, does anyone know about this?

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@TheBrightestSun

Does it use a special port for charging?

What you mean by special port?

It only has one USB C port on it for charging and peripherals

[TheBrightestSun]

@No-1HoloLens-Fan

What you mean by special port?

It only has one USB C port on it for charging and peripherals

I think there was renders of dock station with some custom port or something

[Searsy82]

@Thebaconlife

so is steamdeck more powerful than a series s?

If not I still dont see how it would be as hard to get a series s into portable form. Keep the screen 720 to put less load and save battery. dont have games do 120 for the same. keep the 60 fps at 720 and I feel a lot of series s games can make the jump personally feel like the screen doesnt need to be the same size as a switch. Make it vita size which is still great and again save battery. make it digital only so no internal reader needed etc. I totally feel like its doable but im not an engineer so im sure I sound dumb right now. Charge 300 and up for models with more memory

Steam Deck is:

• 4 core/8 thread CPU @ 2.4 - 3.5ghz
• 8 CU RDNA 2 GPU @ 1 - 1.2Ghz. (1.6 TFLOPS)
• 16 GB LPDDR5 (around 88GB/s)

For comparison the Series S is:

• 8 core/16 thread CPU @ 3.5Ghz (single threaded) or 3.4GHZ with SMT (all 16 threads)
• 20 CUs RDNA 2 GPU @ 1.565 GHz Custom RDNA 2 GPU (4 TFLOPS)
• 10GB RAM (8 GB @ 224 GB/s, 2GB @ 56 GB/s)

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

@TheBrightestSun

I think there was renders of dock station with some custom port or something

Oh yes, it does have it… Not released yet

[No-1HoloLens-Fan]

Gabe delivering the Steam Deck himself… But people not caring about it

The first Steam Decks have been delivered!

[Sparda3g]

If you guys are planning to play Destiny 2 on Steam Deck, then don’t do the alternative. They will ban you.

Destiny 2 Steam Guide

[ShinMegamiTenseiX]

@Thebaconlife

so is steamdeck more powerful than a series s?

If not I still dont see how it would be as hard to get a series s into portable form. Keep the screen 720 to put less load and save battery. dont have games do 120 for the same. keep the 60 fps at 720 and I feel a lot of series s games can make the jump personally feel like the screen doesnt need to be the same size as a switch. Make it vita size which is still great and again save battery. make it digital only so no internal reader needed etc. I totally feel like its doable but im not an engineer so im sure I sound dumb right now. Charge 300 and up for models with more memory

300? hahaha. DOuble that and we can start off with one with 10GB SSD maybe. A series S equivalent of a portable would be close to 800 bucks and that’s not factoring in the SSD

[petra-vee-cee]

Mine arrived today after many months of anticipation, and yet … it’s been brought to my attention that they’re selling on ebay for around £2000. £2000! I had zero intentions of being any kind of scalper when I pre-ordered this, but that is money I could put to much better use than playing Factorio on the toilet. I can’t decide what to do. I think I’m probably just going to keep it, but it almost feels irresponsible to do so.