Wanna play spiderman, halo , god of war and Forza horizon, and anything emulated on a single console? With minimal technical know how?

Such a smart move by Valve. They’ve converted me into a pc gamer first, and a steam gamer as well.

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    To me the steam deck feels like a console that’s prehacked. You have all your normal s*** and game mode but then when you go to desktop mode you have the Homebrew channel which is called the Discovery store Plus you can sideload things which is where you download something not from the discover store.

    Steam has always been able to turn your PC into a console Well at least since they introduced big picture mode and they decided what if we went the other way around Make a console that will allow you to turn into a PC?

    I only major complaint with the steam deck is that sometimes I can’t get a game to run no matter which version of proton I select.

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      This is going to be the hard one for me too. Mine just came in the mail today and I’m at my family’s place three hours away. I keep trying to buy games but every time I’m about to I realize it’s on Xbox PC Gamepass and I just gotta chill til I get it in my hands and see what sorta catalog I’m working with before spreading another $100+ on games that are on sale that I either already have on a different console or just really will never find the time to play.

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      1 year ago

      Humble choice stopped my compulsive spending. Every month you get a bunch of games to play and it’s fairly cheap.

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      It takes years but you’ll get to a saturation point eventually. I think my steam library is estimated at like 5K value but nowadays I don’t really buy much during sales. I average like a game a month and maybe a couple games on major sales.

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      I had to implement a rule where I can’t buy another game til i finish the one I’m playing (or decide to move on). The prices just continue to drop. So what if I don’t pick up Spiderman this round, I’m not likely to play it anyway before the next sale with my backlog.

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        1 year ago

        I really need to use this rule. I keep starting games, dabbling other elections only to come back and forget how to play or what’s going on. oh look, another sale.

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    1 year ago

    Same. Never emulated this heavily before. I’m even going so far as to get some of my switch titles running on it

    One of the biggest gets for me too has been having most of the modern fromsoft titles on a handheld

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      Ha. My buddies who have stayed in PC for many years have me so much shit for getting a steam deck and then emulating on it. Something song the lines of “you should have bought a real pc instead of spending a bunch of money just to emulate.” Sure, because playing Tears of the Kingdom and Thousand Year Door on Steam Deck locks me out of my steam library I’ve had since 2007? 🙄

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    1 year ago

    Console Gamers in The PC Space: Hey, I blindly followed a guide, having no comprehension of what it was telling me, and renamed .local to local, now my Deck is dead, please help. :(

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    I was a console kid and young adult, built my first PC a few years ago, the deck brings it all full circle. I have the best of both worlds, sitting at a high end monitor at my desk, lounging in bed on the deck, or docked on the TV. Such a brilliant device that has value to ANY and all gamers

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    It achieved that for me.

    I got a steam deck when it came out and then earlier this year built my dream pc.

    Haven’t turned on a console in at least 6 months.

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    1 year ago

    Been console forever and my deck is arriving today. Sold all my console stuff to fund it sooooo they converted me too!

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    1 year ago

    I mean, kind of.

    It doesn’t play new games which is kind of a bummer. But anything from the PS4 Era plays like a dream.

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      There’s only so much you can physically do with a mobile CPU - balancing power usage, heat production, price, size, weight, etc.

      Almost all the issues with new games - BG3, Starfield, etc. are CPU bound.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t have a PC, just a mac, so the stream deck is about to open a lot of new doors for me

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    The steam Deck ripped me away from my gaming PC. That poor PC has only been booted up a few times since I got my steam deck. The PC can push any game but I just don’t want to sit at my desk anymore.

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    1 year ago

    Agreed, what I love about Steam is that your library evolves as new hardware comes out.

    Want to play that game from 20 years ago - just download and run it. No problem.