Poll for limited edition owners:

Can I have it?

You make life sound quite unpleasant. Ah, you’re a parent.

Do you not get two years warranty where you live? That’s shitty.

I find that too, but for different reasons. The Switch dug in because it was too thin. The Deck digs in for me because it’s too big - I have to stretch my hands to reach both the back buttons and the thumb sticks.

Nope, to be honest I don’t find it very comfortable to hold at all. I’m surprised at another commenter saying they have small hands and find it very comfortable because that’s the main problem I have. The grips are too big.

For context, my favourite controller to hold if the square getting you plug the Switch Joycons into to turn them in to a standard controller - I love how that thing feels.

Posted from my iPhone Mini.

One note regarding the trigger bottoming out: there’s a bit of foam that the trigger should hit before it hits the PCB inside the Deck. On mine the foam is there behind the left trigger but missing behind the right one. I added several layers of electrical tape to do the same job.

1. Yup! Soooo good!

2. Yup!

3. Actually no - on my OLED the face buttons are kinda wobbly, which isn’t true on my LCD.

4. Mine are the same - I think there’s a bit of luck of the draw on any model.

5. Yep! I’m a big fan!

6. Feels the same to me.

7. I never really had the fan problem so no thoughts on this.

8. Yes.

9. Haven’t noticed this.

10. Haven’t noticed this.

I dunno, I get the impression Steam devs are quite into this, more so than with previous hardware efforts. They might keep it up. It also sounds like it’s been a significant success commercially, though I don’t know for sure. They also might feel it’s smart to keep releasing a flagship device to keep other manufacturers on their toes to keep the ecosystem healthy, like Google do with phones.

Stray?

I think if it bothers you and you can exchange it then you should.

Samsung

512 here.

Mine is:

43cm by 16.5* by 9cm

*it’s actually closer to16cm, it’s just sliiiightly over, so I’m rounding up to the nearest 5mm.

Because the Steam servers are overloaded

Nope. 100% perfect.

Doesn’t really matter to be honest. I was going to replace them with PlayStation buttons anyway and the PlayStation buttons I have in my old Deck wobbled.

YOU HAVE CAPPS LOCK ON

I just wiped it with the cloth that came with it, never had a problem.

Nobody would argue for Steam Deck over Steam Deck OLED. You need another one for that box.

Exactly - Steam is all the launcher I need.

I get why they wouldn’t outright ban launchers, but I don’t see EA or whoever pulling out of Steam just because their games don’t get extra promotion there.

I wish all launchers would **** off and die, and that goes for on Windows in desktop.

Valve could do something with steam to encourage this. I mean they could outright dictate than all games on Steam must have the option of skipping launchers, using a standard API so there can be a tickbox for it in your game settings within Steam. If they don’t want to be that heavy handed they could allow games that don’t meet those criteria but deny them some services on Steam, like they’ll never come up in queues, they can’t participate in sales, etc.