Steam Deck

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I'll be interested to see the price on it, and if it's actually decently available. I've got a USB-C hub, which can accept power (though it's not powered by default), which might just do everything I need anyway. But if the SteamDeck one is sturdy in construction, not much more than generic USB-C docks in price and actually available (rather than "we can ship in X months") then it seems reasonable for the convenience.

I ordered the 256GB model but if I'd know how much games were going to increase in storage requirements over the last year I might have thought twice about that. OTOH SD cards just seem to be getting bigger, cheaper and faster, so there's that.

I'm pretty sure it'll work with any compliant dock/USB-C monitor.

I did go for the 512 primarily for the anti-glare screen since I plan to use it like I used to use the Vita while it was viable and the games I was playing had PS3 version save transfers: playing games on commutes and trips on the Deck, then I transfer the saves using the cloud to my PC to continue with flash graphics/high resolutions, leaving the Deck open as a second screen device for streaming/browsing etc. I think it'll be surprisingly capable on the desktop with those Ryzen CPU cores and a decent amount of RAM.

My main concern with my cheapo dock is if it'll do 4k/60 (for older games obviously)

The battery has remained my biggest concern with Steam Deck, especially as it seems big enough to have had a bigger battery (the GPD Win 3 has a bigger battery IIRC) included.

I have a Q2 (moved from Q1 when date fell back) 512GB ordered.

I think it'll become more clear in a couple of days when people can show more of the OS, but it looks like Gamescope might be the thing that helps the most with battery worries. I don't think running the CPU at the full 15W is going to be terribly practical for portable play as I suspect the fan will become quite loud and annoying for those around you but Gamescope lets you reduce res and cap the framerate (seemingly with better frame pacing than vsync in some cases) to fit things into 7-11W more easily. Combined with the more efficient RDNA2 graphics it should still get much more battery for the equivalent performance than any of the handheld PCs out there right now.

I do think that when the Aya Neo Next gets the AMD 6800U it'll be a really interesting comparison to make. That's going to have 8 CPU cores, Zen 3 architecture and the slightly more efficient process node in its favour. If this type of product catches on, in a year or two there are going to be some really interesting devices in this handheld form factor and it's going to affect my decisions when it comes to upgrading from my current laptop when the time for that comes in a few years. I can already see the Deck supplanting it for some trips.

edit: I also think that at some point people will be able to set system performance profiles for the Deck like they do with the controller, similar to the way Geforce Experience can edit your ingame settings for you based on your graphics card and desired frame rate.

Only some 50 games verified/playable for me.

Worst. Launch. Lineup. Ever.

Thinking of letting my brother have mine, seems perfect for the van he just bought and poor sod lost the pc in his recent split from the long time gf.

Oh cool! Looks fun!

Nothing here yet. I just checked my order and found out that past me decided to preorder the most expensive model, FFS! If I cancel it I'll go to the back of the queue Ah well, is what it is.

I ordered 17th July 21, no idea where that puts me in the queue. Just says "after Q2"

I like this quick Dave2D review.

Really? Seems like a likeable guy that does tech reviews that don’t take up half an hour.

Yeah that's a good 12 min summary. Concisely says what everyone else is also saying.

I kind of like the white accents in the analog stick. It's the d-pad and face button placement that gets me. It's like they HAD to put in those touch pads from the old Steam Controller and it made them shove off the actual bits you're going to use to the edge. It just looks like a big ugly block.

Really intrigued to see what this is like with Win11 installed and GamePass games running. That would make it an absolute purchase, Xbox on the go and plug it in to TVs in other rooms.