As someone who almost entirely emulates their games with the occasional pirated PC game, I’ve now spent about $150 on Steam games in the first month I’ve had my Deck. I can only imagine the bank they’re making off of people who are already used to buying their games. I’m officially ensnared. I haven’t been this excited about gaming since the original Xbox came out 21 years ago.
I’ve always preferred to own games on Steam because it feels more permanent than anywhere else. I’m never gonna lose access to my account, I’m never gonna have to worry about new hardware that’s not backwards-compatible, and I’m never gonna have to deal with weird launcher migrations (Origin -> EA).
For a while there the Switch become my platform of choice because of its hybrid nature, but Valve has managed to rope me right back in with the Deck. I’ve even re-bought some games just to have them on Steam.