Primarily in my life ive been a console gamer. Starting with the ps1 and owning every system released since. Never did much pc gaming even when i had access to a decent rig. For the past few years ive been a collector. Going for rare and cool retro games i always wanted to own. After about a year with the steam deck it all feel so… archaic? Like, i went and hdmi modded my ps2, but i find the idea of booting up pcsx2 on deck more appealing. I dont feel the need to have a new game in my hands physically, when i know its gonna take me months to play it anyway, i can wait for a sale, get it cheaper, play it portably with mods. Console gaming, especially in the last 2 generations, feels like a hinderance more than anything. Why would i want to be tied to one piece of hardware, with a dubious at best chance of carrying my games forward to the next gen every 6 years? The steam deck feels like its released me from the shackles of console gaming. I dont think ill get rid of my whole collection… but my ps5 and xsx have been doing a lot of dust collecting these days.
Anyone else feel the same? Or have i just had an existential gamer crisis?
Nope; but I’ll tell you one thing it made me feel right at home since I grew up mostly with handhelds even got a game controller on my phone that I would stream games from any device I could at home I play some games on my desktop because it is better than a steamdeck in terms of screen graphics’s / performance but when I look at my deck I don’t feel like it’s 100% my pc rather a sorta steam library emulator if that makes any sense. I do find myself reaching for it whenever I just want to chill out. I also mainly play vr games on my desktop but when I do play those AAA titles I enjoy them on the deck just as much as on my desktop if not more especially those fighter type games!!