Depends on the game, what I’m doing and when. If I’m in the middle of playing and need to do something else briefly I won’t even turn it off, or I will if I’ll be longer. On a night time if I’m not using it then I’ll close the game first as it prevents any conflict if I want to load up the game on my desktop and it doesn’t support dynamic saving (which unfortunately most still don’t), and won’t want to kick me off a session if I turn it on while something else is running.

I don’t recall them being overpriced.

I found myself playing more Rocket League again this week and this is still my go-to controller for it because of the dual stage triggers. Playing a little bit on the Deck too though because I know I’ll have to work on new muscle memory for it.

Saying it again in case anyone from Valve is watching: Deck 2: second stage triggers, pretty please? It’s not the same just having hard and soft pull without a detent between them.

I already wasn’t planning to.

Tetris Effect is one of the first games I installed on my Deck but the d-pad just doesn’t seem as suited for it as the one on the Elite series 2 controller. I find the Elite’s short travel and clickiness to be preferable for speed. Not to say it’s unplayable on the Deck of course, but I’m not as fast.

I haven’t ordered an OLED model but if I did at least I’d have the LCD model to use in the meantime.

The lead time only being about a week or so (according to my store page anyway, 6-10 days) is definitely easier to handle than when I and the other reservers were around waiting not only for the launch day that got delayed from December to February or something like that, but for the waves of availability and watching the tracker to see if it would be our turn for the email to complete payment that week.

(I’m not trying to take away from your joke, I’m just reminiscing. I didn’t get mine until August but the anticipation was quite something.)

If I had the money, no doubt. If Valve had a part exchange program I’d seriously consider it. As things stand now, probably not. I’ll just hope to have the money ready for the Deck 2 instead.

As long as it’s plugged in it’ll be fine; if you can’t switch it on hold the power button a little longer just in case.

Nobody’s actually asked me that but Spider-Man would likely be my choice as well. Not only graphically but it showcases the other features too like the use of the controller API and dynamic cloud save.