No, absolutely not. I don’t give a shit about downvotes by fanboys here, please don’t listen to anybody saying it’s worth it if you’re Docked only.
The Steam Deck has a performance profile of a base PS4 when running games at 800p. At higher resolutions, PS4 actually performs a little better much of the time. The reason the Deck is more expensive is because you’re getting all that power on a mobile APU.
For the price of even the cheapest Steam Deck, you could build a PC that will run games better, especially since you’re already wanting to play docked so you already have a screen, mouse, and keyboard. Not to mention that the Docked experience of a Deck is janky. It often messes up the resolution, returns a black screen, or just doesn’t work for a variety of other reasons.
I just bought an OLED Deck after owning an LCD Deck since it came out. The Steam Deck is my favorite handheld of all time and an incredible system. But please, just build a new, stronger PC for that money if you’re only going to play Docked. Or buy a pre-built. Even GPUs from 2015 will outperform this thing, and you can get those for like $100 or less.
I think this is the right answer. If you’re gonna dock it 24/7 then I wouldn’t get the steam deck. I’d put that money towards an Xbox or PlayStation to get much better performance per dollar.
Yup, it’s a lovely device for the form factor but that’s about it. Don’t get me wrong, I love the steam deck for exactly that reason but were I inclined to game behind a desk I’d 100% go for a midrange desktop. Alternatively the series S can be gotten for 250$ right now which is a whole lot cheaper and will be able to play new releases for years to come at a very reasonable performance level. Why someone would want to get the deck almost exclusively for docked gaming is beyond me.
No, absolutely not. I don’t give a shit about downvotes by fanboys here, please don’t listen to anybody saying it’s worth it if you’re Docked only.
The Steam Deck has a performance profile of a base PS4 when running games at 800p. At higher resolutions, PS4 actually performs a little better much of the time. The reason the Deck is more expensive is because you’re getting all that power on a mobile APU.
For the price of even the cheapest Steam Deck, you could build a PC that will run games better, especially since you’re already wanting to play docked so you already have a screen, mouse, and keyboard. Not to mention that the Docked experience of a Deck is janky. It often messes up the resolution, returns a black screen, or just doesn’t work for a variety of other reasons.
I just bought an OLED Deck after owning an LCD Deck since it came out. The Steam Deck is my favorite handheld of all time and an incredible system. But please, just build a new, stronger PC for that money if you’re only going to play Docked. Or buy a pre-built. Even GPUs from 2015 will outperform this thing, and you can get those for like $100 or less.
I think this is the right answer. If you’re gonna dock it 24/7 then I wouldn’t get the steam deck. I’d put that money towards an Xbox or PlayStation to get much better performance per dollar.
Yup, it’s a lovely device for the form factor but that’s about it. Don’t get me wrong, I love the steam deck for exactly that reason but were I inclined to game behind a desk I’d 100% go for a midrange desktop. Alternatively the series S can be gotten for 250$ right now which is a whole lot cheaper and will be able to play new releases for years to come at a very reasonable performance level. Why someone would want to get the deck almost exclusively for docked gaming is beyond me.
I’m with you on this.
If the OP doesn’t plan on using portability at all – you are better off with a tower. And you can upgrade stuff in it as you go.
Steam deck is amazing on steam deck’s screen. Anything higher is wishful thinking. At least until we get deck 2/3 with a proper egpu support.