Just got my steam deck in the mail today can't wait to get it set up

I bought A LOT of games on Steam over the past year just because of the Steam Deck.

I want a steam controller 2! Just mimic the layout of the deck with a more controller like design and Valve had my money. Also, the naysayers I always see seem to be Switch fanboys. Maybe they'll grow out of fanboy land and be able to enjoy both. Lol.

The steam deck is definitely a major win for Valve, I agree. And it only means positive things for the Linux gaming experience.

I just received mine now! Time to try

Imagine working for Epic and trying desperately to gain foothold against Steam and then Valve releases the Steam Deck... :)

Love my steam deck! Haven't been this happy with a purchase in years. Being able to play all of my favorite games wherever I like (with emulators included) is absolutely incredible and a childhood dream come true.

Caution! I would not trust the sorting of the steam bestsellers blindly. Valve might even changed the sorting algorithm such that the deck appears always in the top10. But this is speculative, without real numbers how many units were ordered no one except valve knows.

[ 2022-08-24 20:48:21Z ] 👍 0

Didn't know that. May I ask where you got this information?

[ 2022-08-24 19:55:10Z ] 👍 2

Top Sellers list is based on the price of the games. Since the Deck is over $400 it can sell less units than the games below it but appear higher because it made more money overall

I tries to build PC/Console with OpenSUSE (installed twice). I trying to use hibernation and try to add grub script to read CD. Problem was: BIOS must be set to ahci mode and this causes on my test hardware. Simply: click an icon and system hibernate, create file in special partition. Content of this file will tell grub, which system to ran. Of course, when there is game CD, we boot into gamming system. I think Steam Deck is a great think. I dream about something like that and now it comes reality. But... I have 3DS, Wii and few gaming laptops. Maybe I will buy it in future. Also, Valve take a lesson from the past. Main problem with Steam Machines was hardware problems. Many companies creates one's Steam Machine, which hibernation problems, for example. And consoles such like PS, and XBox use hibernation to boot faster. As far as I known, Steam Deck boot really fast.

Also trails from zero got verified on the deck before it comes out. I love this so much.

Go Valve go!

Got mine today. Absolutely loving it. Brings back memories from my childhood playing my gba and psp. Playing the sims 4 on it right now. Laying on my bed in swim shorts because it id way too hot outside. It surprises me how easy it is to get origin installed and run non steam library games through proton. It runs buttery smooth and very simple to add custom controls. This thing is bringing me back to my sims 2 pets on my psp and gba days. I haven't been able to relax in months but playing this thing finally brought me some relieve from stress. I bought it to wind down after a long day of trucking. And it definitely delivers. I don't have to play the newest games on it. But I am happy I can do it if I wanted to. The deck is the handheld pc gaming experiënce that I have been searching for most of my life.

[ 2022-08-29 12:09:27Z ] 👍 0

Ok thank you ^^ no i don’t have mine yet im at Q4 so still waiting its good te read that there is no lagg really looking forward playing the sims 4 on the deck :D And also thankyou for explaining how to use the control etc :) only thing i need to figure out is how to set origin on it but there are alot of video’s so i think it will go fine 😅 then again thank you for the fast reply 😄

[ 2022-08-28 08:31:09Z ] 👍 0

@@andreawesterhof3753 Yep I play with the expansion packs except for the latest highschool pack and some kits. Still need to get those. It runs without any issues from a fresh install. The 1280x800 resolution is perfect for perfomance and graphics at 7inch. Everything is setup at ultra settings. It looks sharp and runs smoothly. I did resize the UI to make it a little bit bigger. But overall it looks amazing. It is important to customise the standard buttonmapping. I set it up with both analog sticks controling movement and camera rotation. And the right trackpad is used as a mouse cursor. I can click with the trackpad A button and R2 trigger. I setup the bumpers to zoom in and out. I also mapped the shift button so I can fill up walls and floors easily. It is a very intuitive experiënce and everything works. I could easily build a house in build mode. And life mode runs perfectly. Haven't gotten around adding some mods. But that is quite easy in desktop mode. It takes a little tinkering to set it up but once that is done it performs well. The sims is not too resource heavy so that makes it the perfect game to play on the deck. I want to emulate the sims 2 console versions as well. But overall no lag. Just a lot of fun. And it is amazing to play a complete sims game on a handheld. You will be enjoying it on the deck. I hope you got yours already. They ship quickly if you are based in the Netherlands or Belgium. Distribution center is located in Waalwijk. Got mine the next day after they confirmed shipping it.

[ 2022-08-27 07:03:00Z ] 👍 1

Do you also play with all the expension packs? Because when i get my steam i wanted to also put origin on it en play the sims with all the packs but doesnt it lagg? 😊

It's great, and has surpassed my every expectation! As others have said, I haven't played a game on my (significantly more powerful) desktop computer in months. :) It's quite honestly the handheld PC-ish device I've been waiting on for years. The existing handhelds available were close, but *way* too expensive, and they mostly seem like a really awkward way to use Windows. The other knock on effect is that the existing handheld market is gearing up in a big way to compete with the Deck, and that's great too. Especially with Valve intending to make Steam OS 3.x available to anyone. The hardware is fine, but it's the OS that actually makes it great IMO. I hope this is the "iPhone" moment that makes handheld PCs explode in popularity.

I have put Windows 11 on my Deck. SteamOS is interesting, however i find that personally many of my games have issues in Proton or with anti-cheat posing my accounts at risk. I like SteamOS for the more casual stuff, hopefully Valve continue their current track of providing good driver support to let people have the choice. Something that always put me off the Steam PCs is that lack of choice in some instances.

I don't have time for the naysayers, I'm to busy playing games on my steam deck!

[ 2022-08-24 20:04:25Z ] 👍 0

I needed an extra outlet for my Deck's charger so I unplugged my Switch and haven't plugged it back in for weeks lol

Best hardware purchases I've made in a while an my birthday was in June, and I got a Hisenes ULED 2.1 HDMI 144hz TV for my B_Day. I like the Steam Deck better. 😏

I think I measure the success of the Steam Deck not by how many units Valve manages to sell, but by how much Linux adoption and development it manages to drive. They are certainly related, but ultimately, it's of paramount importance to decouple the gaming industry from Windows.

Ever since I’ve received mine in April, I have not put it down. I am ALWAYS playing on it. I’ve stopped playing my Xbox Series X and my PS5.

I just got my Steam Deck yesterday - Decided to pick up Rogue Legacy 2 (since I loved the first game). I accidentally stayed up all night playing with my Steam Deck. I am running on 40minutes of sleep right now. It is safe to say that I really like my Steam Deck already.

Any info about active Steam users seems to claim 90 million users. July's Steam's analytics say Arch Linux is 0.17% of their users. Obviously within that there are just regular Linux users but that gives us around 1.5 millions units of Steam Deck. Let's say 1/3 of that is non-Steam Deck users and it's still a million with people still queued up. Those are rough numbers though but it still looks promising.

About the steam controller,i agree!! The noobs have stopped the steam controller's,and they didn't made at list a new Steam controller.

I just got mine a couple weeks ago and reserved the 64gb model a day after the reservations launched. I have already played it so much definitely worth the 400$

Just got my second one!

I have a steam deck and I love it, but using the top sales page that steam owns doesn’t seem like a viable source considering they could just push it to the top if they wanted.

I just want dual boot for Windows and steam os

I think Valve has put the Stem Deck at the top of the Top Sellers list as marketing. I very much doubt it sold more units than these other games

[ 2022-08-24 19:53:28Z ] 👍 1

Top Sellers list goes by price and not actual units. I didn't know this until recently either lol Basically since the Deck is over $400 it can more easily appear high up on the list despite selling less units. That's also why you barely ever see popular cheap games like Vampire Survivors in the top 10

Hope it comes to South America soon enough. Not buying a PC ever again. Just the SteamDeck and the devices that come after.

Would be nice if we could play bloodborne on it. A guy can dream.

Ordered January 11th, got my pay now email Monday! Can't wait

I'm glad the steam deck is succeeding! Been telling friends and family about it, and quite a few are already interested in buying one!

I got a deck. Typically I'll buy a device, use device a good amount for a week or two, and then it collects dust.... This little guy is giving me LIFE! I play it a lot! 100% my console of choice.

Ironically, i spend almost all my time on my Deck playing switch games.

After watching this I checked my reservation and was bumped up to Q3 July-Sept. I could get my email/notification any day now and I had no idea. AHH I'm too excited.

From Valves perspective this is a clear success.

It really is the year of Linux gaming

We have major publications reviewing Linux game performance on launch. Developers bragging about Linux compatibility. Everything that applies to the steam deck applies to Linux in general and we have never seen this kind of support.

steam deck is the steam controller 2, duh

I'm still happy with how fast SteamDeck is growing not only by selling it but also by verifying so many new games and previous ones. Also, almost all people in the world said about SteamDeck. This is an incredible success and I'm wondering how Gabe did it. If the next product will be the Steam controller and I think it will be another fantastic item. Because they learned all problems and issues and made amazing SteamDeck, they can just reuse this success for the controller. Maybe even make it more ultimate and customizable.

Quantity will always outsell quality . The switch is absolute trash. It stands neck and neck with ps4 and ps3 as one of the worst systems ever made since the it bubble burst.

I rarely use my deck but I love it. Waiting on the email to buy my second one in q4

It'll be a success once Steam OS is a platform and replaces Windows on all those niche gaming PCs from GPD and Aya. I'm confident that even without that it will hit 1 million units sold

Still (mostly) patiently waiting for Valve to take reservations from Aussies...

[ 2022-08-25 07:09:44Z ] 👍 1

Yep same here :(

The Steam Deck will change PC gaming just like the iPhone changed mobile phones. This is especially good for the Linux ecosystem. This device is a win for freedom as well. Open sourced operating system. You have the right to repair and upgrade your device. Everybody wins except for Nintendo.

I got my steam deck took me a while to get used to Linux since I've never really used Linux before but once you figure out the basics it's amazing and pretty easy to get any game on steam to work just by using proton ge regardless of weather steam says its verified or not

Its still a pretty modest success compared to something like Sony but valve was smart about this they made sure to get steam decks in the hands of gaming publications and game developers first and then into the hands of pc games hobbyists next, those groups alone will basically do all your marketing for you

Absolutely love mine, love it, theirs some kind of addictive nature to it, graphics are great, sound, everything, Steams customer service was so good, I honestly cant think of a reason i dont like, I guess, i wish my entire library was active, but i know it will get there soon enough, The Desktop is dope, very powerful. The system stands for freedom, freedom to do so much, so much freedom to it.

The number 1 reason for the success is the failure of Steam Machines, Value collected a lot of data and Proton coming out so soon after they cancelled the Steam Machines shows that they were already working on the problem of low Linux support. By the time they had Proton working, the home game console didn’t make sense anymore and that made them prototype a new portable version of the Steam Machines—but with those devices having a bad reputation, they changed the name. So the whole time between Proton’s release and the Steam Deck’s, they collected Linux usage and performance data. That is why.

That sounds great. However I'm not sure you can directly gleam sales numbers because it's top ranked. So we know how those are counted and the Steam Deck is handled the same way? Not that I want to question the success, but I do hope it persists. When they announce an updated SteamDeck I think that would be a good indication that it's not a fad like other steam hardware projects. How come you don't have yours yet?

Yep. I love my Steamdeck. It doesnt get a whole lot of mileage (I have it since April), but everytime it does, I enjoy the crap out of it. It's just so good to play so many PC games with.

Sorry don't agree if so good why people sell it to second hand shops?

[ 2022-08-25 13:55:14Z ] 👍 0

They're basically scalping, which is actually a sign that the Steam Deck is so good that there are people who'll sell it for thrice the amount they actually paid for

I think, Valve has deserved this success. Thay do a lot more than other companies do for ther community's. Thanks Valve 👍

Devs coming out and getting their games verified before launch is a very positive step forward for both the Deck itself and Linux gaming in general. If the Deck can play it, my desktop running that same version of Proton will be able to play it too.

Just wanna take a moment to give myself a round of applause. Called it like babe ruth. The MINUTE I saw that Steamos was based on Arch Linux; I said "Yup, she's the one" plus with how much cucking Sony,MS, and Nintendo have done to their fans through subscriptions and all other nonsense. It was bound to be... Steam baby. Got a 256gb model steamdeck tatooed on my left bicep. Good job me... Good job.

Time will tell of course but in my opinion, the Deck is the most important thing happened to PC gaming since 3D acceleration cards. Got me back into PC gaming after 21 years of absence.

I put down a reservation "just in case". When I finally could order mine, I didn't intent to buy it, but I did it, thinking I could just try it for a moment and then sell it for more. I didn't sell it. I've been using it more than my high-end gaming PC. I can play games in my backyard, or on the couch, sync the saves, and then continue on my high-end gaming PC. I was afraid many games wouldn't run properly because it would be running Linux, but I totally forgot about it until I read the name of this channel and remembered that the machine runs Linux.

It will be awesome when it will be available globally

Steam Deck is a HUGE success. It's also a huge step forward towards shacking up Microsoft's monopoly on home computing.

Too many games aint still working on deck :/

The Deck really is the best electronic device i've bought in years. I originally got it to relive my childhood with emulation and indie games, Instead I went on to play massive titles like New Vegas, Witcher 3, and even modern ones like Elden Ring.

like this channel. keep going bro all the way its your nice way that i l;like

Only thing about it being top of the carts I assume that means the 5$ pre order reservation, not the actual buy. But seeing that production has ramped up it is a great sign, also the fact that some devs not only acknowledge it but even work on supporting anti cheat for it, when they haven't been bothered to do that for Linux yet. I got one a couple weeks ago by the way, it's awesome.

Getting mine today, excited to finally get my hands on it

Because of a steam deck i spent 300 bucks just for games.. so think twice...ofcourse valve are geniuses

Having switched to Ubuntu for my primary gaming PC over a year ago, the Deck seemed like a no brainer for me. 6 weeks since I got mine and absolutely loving it. The more it gets mentioned in news/reviews etc in the gaming world, the more games will ship with actual Linux support and the fact you can "just run" games on it will open more peoples eyes that there are other OS's out there that do everything they need. Win win for everyone.

I can confirm that, at least in the UK, reservations expected in Q4 are being pushed up to Q3 as my steam deck arrived today after getting an email last week that it was available to order. Maybe sales were so high that more production lines were put in place.. No idea, but I have been looking forward to it for a while. Now to see what I can do with it.

I played my steam deck on the plane, work, couch, backyard, and toilet. Besides the toilet, it has improved my gaming experience vastly. No longer tied to a chair

[ 2022-08-25 22:17:53Z ] 👍 0

@@sanchayande8081 you can't play while taking care of business

[ 2022-08-25 15:42:57Z ] 👍 0

what happened on the toilet?

Love my steam deck, been playing fallout 4 on it lately, runs medium settings at a constant 60fps

i love my steam deck

It's a success in that they're still selling as many as they can make. Hopefully a success in that Valve sells enough to make it to retail stores. But "hundreds of thousands", over the course of half a year, in the platform space, isn't really a major success of any kind. I mean, the Dreamcast sold half a million units in its first two weeks. By the six month mark they were well over 2.5 million sold. And THAT was moving along so slowly that Sega had to cancel the platform inside of a year. FWIW, it IS super-promising that major games are getting verified prior to release.

I bought a 512G for myself and a 64G for my brother as present, I am planning to move my 512G SSD to the 64G and getting the 1TB SSD upgrade.

Pretty soon they're gonna bring back Steam Machines.

I love mine.

Like yeah it's a PC handheld that can run games that were available last generation right and just generation with some optimisations the fact of the matter is that it's a handheld that's a very good reasonable price and it's just oval a great fun system

The Steam Deck Docking Station not so much...

I've had one for nearly 6 months now, it's awesome. With a couple tweaks here and there you can run modded Minecraft, I've seen some people also play switch-emulated games on it too. The only problem is that everyone uses Windows, which isn't bad because it's an amazing OS. But the deck, in desktop mode, runs on Linux OS which isn't as popular so many like myself have to get used to the change. Also, certain game services such as Easy AntiCheat don't like the Linux OS so some games are outright unplayable without changing it to the Windows OS. This would be an easy thing to do, except that it significantly drops performance across most games. One article charted Elden Ring at around 50-60 FPS with 4 hours of playing on Linux. On Windows that changed to 25-40 FPS on Elden Ring with about 2 hours of playtime. I overall love the Steam Deck, it's an amazing concept with a ton to offer but certain companies and games required specs really sap the fun out of it.

I'm a bit doubting. They just managed to be the top GPU in Linux computers that use Steam (by 7.56% which is a decent number for that). But regarding all computers that use Steam, they aren't even listed. Using a Linux distro at all means you're in that 1.23% of users that use Linux, now if you also use a SteamDeck only GPU, then you're only roughly in the 7.56%*1.23% = 0,093% of the players. If we use the 120 million users (which is a rough estimate), we'd get only ~111600 of devices that are likely to be Steam Decks. I am aware that the survey is not representative of the actual numbers (due to the way the people are chosen, like having used Steam nearly daily. Also having a Steam Deck and a PC is not at all mutually exclusive and it's most likely the case). Now, I'm sure that the number is actually a lot higher. But even 10 million devices would be nothing compared to the 110 million Switches that Nintendo has sold. 112k players is definitely not nothing and Valve has the money to be pouring the money into these devices. And this isn't even accounting the fact that the actual percentage I calculated is lower, because I'd have needed to use the "Arch Linux" percentage (However because the "Steam Deck GPU" percentage is only dependent on "Linux" trait and not "Arch Linux" percentage, I could only say that for sure in a "112k or less" manner). Now the Steam Deck might be a late burner (and it most likely is), but for now it's lacking some features that even the PSP had. For example proximity play (called Ad-Hoc play if I'm not mistaken), easily watching movies, looking at pictures, playing music, etc. It will remain an extra "insurance item" for existing Steam Library owners, in Valve's plan not to get screwed over by Microsoft. When Microsoft forces Windows 11 or Windows 12 after they already broke their promise that Windows 10 would be the last Windows, then tries to close down their ecosystem, Valve will be able to provide their existing player base with an alternative. And this is how I see this device and why it's so important to any major Steam Library owner. Even if Microsoft was able to "Thanos-snap" Steam away from the Windows platform, Steam would be still able to survive if this handheld is widespread enough. Because what do you rather buy a game for? Two stationary gaming solutions? Or one that is stationary and one that is portable? Doing this, would allow Valve to create "Steam machines", yet again, if the time really called (which to me seems unlikely, but not preparing for such a threat when you can, would be foolish). Because even now, they have already proven that they can maintain decent compatibility with most of their library using their own independent solution. It definitely gets me not to move over to Windows 11, for the time being. As long as I can count on Valve pushing this, I'm free from bowing down to Microsoft. I only need Windows for games, because I can't afford to a shader starting to be converted from DirectX12 to Vulkan in a competitive round and because of pesky Anti-Cheat not letting me join with anything else than Windows.

Liam, you do great work, seriously - for years now. Lots of integrity behind the keyboard, and high quality work through it. I have one request, please sign off with, "later deckheads" or something similar. You coined the term! It's hilarious and tongue in cheek and shows you don't take yourself too seriously - something too many youtubers lack.

[ 2022-08-25 21:29:59Z ] 👍 0

🤔🤔🤔

the point at which I was expecting to happen, kinda did with spider man, but I was thinking it'd be a success when indies make gba-but-in-720p60 HDR for it, and taking this a step further and specifically designing around every thing steamdeck can do, like not just buttons/touchpads but also microphone related stuff? remember when the DS had games where you blew into its' microphone? or how about something completely out of left field like the analogue sticks doing different things if your thumb isn't on top of them? when we start seeing completely unique to the steamdeck titles, that have things that can't be replicated on other consoles, like the switch, or desktop pcs? thats when you know its a success. but yeah, I specifically was thinking about 2d games, with like, massive draw distances and hardly any polygons. now that I write that out I realize something like that would never really happen though, excepting maybe rpg/jrpg's. but yeah metroid fusion, advanced wars, megaman battle network, chrono trigger, final fantasy tactics/tactics advance, games similar to final fantasy 12, or 'offline MMO's' like xenoblade chronicles/phantasy-star... but in like 2d.

It's a great device. Only just got mine. I don't think we are at mass adoption yet. I think as long as valve keeps verified rolling and updates coming it might outsell some other hand helds like the game gear from days gone. Thinking further ahead maybe next gen will see it take off as a entry level gaming pc and get mass adoption. The big one is xbox live if they manage to get that running too we could be looking at a new era for valve and console/pc gaming. Imagine maybe Sony and valve join forces to wreck xbox or the other way. Things could get really interesting!

I ordered mine a few days ago

I doubt many of us thought the Steam Deck would be a direct threat to the Switch, but what the Steam Deck does is to get the ball rolling and with that, it could be the Deck 2, 3 or 4 that becomes more of a direct threat to Nintendo. We should remember that the Steam Deck was Valve testing the water to see how the market would take, they had no idea that it would be this popular and it's a given once the Deck 2 is released, it will have a lot more stock at launch and Valve might be able to get a better deal out of AMD because of economy of scale, basically, Valve and AMD had no idea how popular the Steam Deck would be, with future ones, Valve could do what Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft does when it comes to economy of scale, that could mean a lower price point or better specs for the given price. So yes, Nintendo doesn't have to worry for now, but give it a few Deck gens and it could become a real threat to Nintendo and what Valve is doing with the Steam Deck, there's every chance they can do it for a home PC console, a bit like the Steam Machine but done right with Valve doing the hardware and the software being in a much better place. If Valve plays their cards right, they could shake up PC and console gaming over the next decade. I also honestly think if Valve can do pre-defined game profile for games, that would likely get a lot more gamers to want to buy the Deck, especially from the console crowd and it could be done like how consoles do it now, a 60fps mode at low settings, 30fps mode with higher visual settings and a battery saver mode. There are a few ways this could be done, Valve could do it but ideally, the developers of their own game would do it but I think a better option would be for the community to do it if the developer of the game hasn't already done it, with the community, it could work a bit like how it works with the controller for games where gamers upload their profile for others to use, in this case, Valve or the community could pick the top 3 for 30, 60fps and battery saver mode, I think this would get a lot more gamers to buy the Deck that want gaming to just work like a console. It should be easy enough to do, Valve could have it where Steam replaces the default config file of the game with one that is Deck ready that sets up the frame rate, visual settings, controls and so on, Valve could even have a system level option where gamers can pick 30, 60fps or battery saver mode so games default to that with the option of you being able to override that if you want a different profile for a game. If Valve really wants to eat into the console market, this is one way to go about it.

I just checked my expectancy for the email, and it got updated to say "(Q3) July-September 2022". I'm so excited! Not long ago it was still saying "(Q4) October-December 2022," and not that much farther back was possibly 2023. Progress is being made.

Loving mine

I’m excited for its success. Preordered it right away day 1 July 2021. Cancelled the preorder and bought a Pc. Canadian sales ordered were delayed over a lot of other places and biggest thing for me is not every steam game is compatible, not talking about VR. Would loved to have docked this and also brought it to friends. Great video! 👍

I got my Steam Deck last week and I'm both impressed and disappointed. It's a great piece of hardware. The screen is good enough, controls are great, and the ergonomics of the device are far beyond any other handheld I've seen. I can actually see myself using this device for some time to come, something that's never happened with a handheld before. On the software side though, I've been less than impressed. The store, library, and just the all the device options and menus are kind of a pain to navigate and use. Game compatibility so far is spotty. It's hard to be too hard on Valve here - I haven't tested many games yet, and 2/3 of the games I've tried are "Unsupported" on Deck (Grandia HD and Disgaea 4). However, even Horizon Zero Dawn (a "Verified" title) has also given me problems with both input and suspend/resume. Not the best first impression at least, given that I'm rarely unable to get games running acceptably on desktop Linux. And finally, the desktop mode is a trainwreck. Would probably be just fine with a dock, mouse, and keyboard, but I don't have those on the go where I'd actually use the device. At home I have my desktop and have no use for the Deck. I really want this to be more than an expensive emulation device, but that's kind of where I'm at with the Deck right now. Thankfully though, since all my complaints are software related, they are fixable. And given the obvious success of the Deck, I have hope that things will get better.

Once valve catches up to the preorders they can pretty easily sell it in computer stores right next to the steam gift cards and gaming computers. They could also have accessories right under the shelf.

Zero reliance on Windows i think it's it's key feature. I'm sure once SteamOS is more widely available, and Proton keeps growing, to be used on other hardware (it is already technically) a lot of people will move away from Windows. Game Developers will soon follow suit and we might see native Linux games, using Vulkan API.

i baught it for 680 and sold it the same day for 800 .... yesss im a amateur scalper lol ... but a friend of mine did try his and the day one patch bricked hi display .... so i feel i did a much more useful thing with my unit :D

The steam deck has always been a clear success from the making. I don't know why people even had doubts when literally everything similar to the deck doesn't even compare to it nor out out to the gaming community to even make it work. Like most of valves product it's solid and this time they found a market that's actually taking interest. The same happened with index. Steam controller. Potentially the steam machine If it wasn't way ahead of it's time. And the concept of steam link.

Love my steam deck , the best thing to ever happen to me as a pc gamer

Microsoft must be afraid. Valve has lifted up Microsoft’s little pinky off of their death grip stranglehold over PC gaming.

as great as the steam deck is it really sucks that it puts a ton of pressure on your wrists when you play in bed which is what I primarily wanted to use mine for

[ 2022-09-01 22:34:30Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux yeah I tried that, it doesn't hurt as much but forces you in a position that gets uncomfortable pretty fast, also makes the controls harder to reach on small hands. I'm sure it'll get better later though with custom grips.

[ 2022-09-01 21:18:41Z ] 👍 0

Small cushion underneath it does the job for me 👌

My brother got it and uses it. That's proof enough for me.

They just need to now make valve Steam Machine 2.0 in 1-2 years with zen4/rdna3 custom chip that destroys current console zen2/rdna2 systems and price it the same if possible.

Every scalpers here in your region are all sold out thats how successful steam deck is

Wait people think it’s unsuccessful??? WHAT LOL

my dude! Just found this channel - like many others im sure - who were in Q4 and got pushed up, loving the wealth of great content. Never thought I'd get into Linux but Valve had to go and change that. You can see how far they've come in their product design since the Steam Controller (the difference in the trackpads alone is wild), and I agree I can die happy if we ever get a SCv2, but thankfully have a few mk1's to hold out with. I think they should go all out and make an ultra premium SC to compete with the xbox elite.. like put some lacquered wood panels on it, really class it up and market it as an ultra premium option.

I am really hoping the steam deck will result in a steam controller 2.0 ! Hopefully now with the docking system being sold on steam, there is a insensitive to make one.

No it isnt. It is slow for modern games , its obsolete compared to other handheld.. SD already useless slow for AAA.title like BG3 , the problem is outdated CPU iGPU. it is good for emu retro stuff but useless otherwise dishonest fanboys constantly potray SD as great because they are fools or paid or need them for content like this channel

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