Don’t know if anyone’s asked recently…
What’s your percentage, handheld vs docked?
Bonus question: what games (or game types or series) have you done 100% handheld?
Probably 60/40 favouring docked, qhen im at home i plug in but I play on work breaks handheld
I put the dock on for a couple games(Spiderman remastered), but largely handheld. It’s not that it can’t do it, but I feel it’s at its absolute best as the 800p system that could.
For me:
95% in the hand
(4) tomb raider titles (2 old, 2 recent) completed 100% handheld.
About a dozen more games, unfinished, 100% so far in handheld.
Handheld of course I just don’t see the point of docking unless you don’t have a pc or console
I actually got a kick out of playing my gameboy advance games through emulator on my 55" tv. It fell apart sometimes, and fell out of audio sync once or twice, but it was too much fun seeing my charizard bigger than life!
100% handheld and have zero desire to play docked , if I want a docked like experience I would use my gaming laptop to get much better performance
For me, docking is pointless as I have a desktop. I’ve considered getting one just for when I want to set stuff up that involves m+kb
Probably 95% docked. I only use it handheld when traveling. Otherwise, I’m either playing things that are light enough for the Deck to handle, or streaming bigger games from my PC in the office.
I don’t have a pc capable of more than email. My ps4 rests, dormant since i received my deck last year. My tv is commandeered by my children and my wife.
The handheld is awesome.
99% docked
Whenever I am home I love using the dock. Don’t know why the SD does this but in handheld games throttle after a while sometimes and I get a lot of screen tearing but not when docked or charging. Also love playing with a controller on a large screen, especially with my gf or brothers. Makes the SD feel like a console I can just pack up and bring to Uni
I only use the steam deck in handheld mode.
Hard to say exactly, probably around 50-50 though. I work from home and have mine Deck docked next to my laptop with its own monitor. So I chip away at stuff when I get quiet periods of work. Then most evenings I’ll play for about an hour on the sofa.