Firstly sorry if this is like hundreds of other posts, but super torn and thought there wasn’t a better place to ask

So it’s nearly Christmas time and my mother is asking me what I want, I have literally no clue to the point where it’s bugging her but a friend suggested a steam deck and I mentioned it to her and she said she’d be willing to give me some money towards one (I’d never let her buy me it, far too much for Christmas). Okay, cool. Nice, with work, it’s affordable.

My only issue is, whilst I think the deck is really cool and I know I’d enjoy it, I don’t really feel I need one

I don’t travel too much (I did at the start of the month before breaking up w my partner), I have access to my PC a lot of the time and mainly would be worried that I wouldn’t get enough use out of it. I already own a switch but haven’t touched it in a while because I ran out of things to play and the cost of Nintendo titles was a no go.

I have a huge steam library and know there’s many games I could enjoy but just looking for some tips on if it’s actually worth spending the money and if people think it’s a good idea?

Cheers!

  • IncredibleGonzo@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have a PC but I love my Deck. I do travel a decent amount, visiting my wife’s family is reasonably common, so I love it for that, but it’s also great at home. I play in bed quite a bit, and even more demanding games that don’t run as well as I’d like on the Deck, I can stream from the PC. As others have mentioned, the (mostly) non-game-breaking sleep feature is brilliant for enabling short sessions, there’s definitely times when I play something on my Deck where, if I didn’t have it, I’d never have gone up to my desk and fired up the PC, I’d have just doomscrolled on my phone for a bit.