THE Official Steam Deck Thread

I honestly cannot imagine playing serious PC games on this thing. It's a low end APU. Adding LPDDR5 and RDNA2 instead of Vega might help slightly, but it still only has 8 CUs. It's basically 22% of a Radeon 5700, or actually worse than that, since it probably won't clock as high. It's not going to have anything more than anemic GPU power. And how many PC games are even designed to play on a 7 inch screen. Can you even read the HUD in a lot of games on a screen that small?

I think a lot of you guys are hyping yourselves up over a product that you normally wouldn't have any interest in whatsoever just because it comes in a weird form factor. If you wouldn't think of buying an APU laptop for gaming this doesn't really make any more sense.

SubCog said:
I think the storage issue is a real problem. What are you supposed to do with a 64gb model, when there's lots of games that take more space than that on their own? An SD card is not going to run Doom Eternal well.

Besides that, I absolutely love this idea. I've got 2 kids who really want to get into PC gaming, but I don't want to shell out the bucks to buy them real computers (or offer constant tech support), and this might be a perfect alternative.
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I'm pretty sure you can put together a budget computer that costs the same as this device that will offer a better experience. Simply putting in a discrete GPU would instantaneously blow this out of the water.
 
Nagorak said:
I'm pretty sure you can put together a budget computer that costs the same as this device that will offer a better experience. Simply putting in a discrete GPU would instantaneously blow this out of the water.
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But can you play it on the shitter?
 
I want to see some emulation tests.
If this can run wiiU and ps3 games, then I'd be mighty tempted.
Already kinda am, but thats a hefty price point over streaming PS games to my vita.
 
Nagorak said:
I'm pretty sure you can put together a budget computer that costs the same as this device that will offer a better experience. Simply putting in a discrete GPU would instantaneously blow this out of the water.
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demo said:
But can you play it on the shitter?
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Nagorak: That's a budget computer... this is different. Steam Deck obviously smaller, portable, and different than either a budget PC or a gaming laptop... and exactly as demo says, you couldn't play any of those well on the toilet :D

What I find interesting about the Steam Deck is just how competitive it is for the price. Valve is probably earning just a small margin on these things as a proof of concept. This article shows comparable current systems and their pricing. This thing destroys them on performance/power: https://liliputing.com/2021/07/comp...-max-and-win-3-onexplayer-and-onegx1-pro.html

And while it may not be a great system for upcoming AAA games, I have a huge backlog of games I wouldn't mind playing in my spare time. I'm playing huge AAA games on my PC, why would I waste my time playing some older games on my desktop? I know, I'll play them on this thing when I am moving around or a few minutes here and there throughout the house. It will pause my gameplay etc. and resume quickly too. It's dedicated to gaming and will be a fun thing. That's my use case.
 
A2597 said:
I want to see some emulation tests.
If this can run wiiU and ps3 games, then I'd be mighty tempted.
Already kinda am, but thats a hefty price point over streaming PS games to my vita.
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Look at reviews of the Aya Neo. As anything that thing can do, this will and more because the GPU is newer than the Vega 6 it packs.

Biggest differences...
Aya Neo: Ryzen 4500U 6-Core Zen2 CPU with Vega 6 GPU
StreamDeck: 4-Core Zen2 CPU with RDNA 2 GPU

So Steamdeck should be pretty sweet at it.
 
I put in a reservation for the 512gb model. It may not be the most powerful thing, but I don't need that. I want to be able to couch PC game while watching something else on my TV, and this is perfect for that. I've got a Switch but I don't use it, it doesn't have my Steam library, the games it does have aren't that interesting to me anymore. This will be perfect for couch Minecraft or Fall Guys, especially if the touch pads are as good as the ones on the Steam Controller, which I absolutely love.

Would it be nice if it was more powerful? Sure. Do I need it to be? Nope. This device isn't for the hardcore PC gamer crowd, and that's fine.
 
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Looks like they updated the mem specs.
 
Even with their anti-scalper technique steam is trying, these things are going to sell for 3x what they are worth...especially coming out at Christmas time. I guess if you want one try and reserve one NOW or forever hold your piece.
 
xCLAVEx said:
Even with their anti-scalper technique steam is trying, these things are going to sell for 3x what they are worth...especially coming out at Christmas time. I guess if you want one try and reserve one NOW or forever hold your piece.
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I don't know about that. This device isn't without competition from a couple of other companies out right now. Plus companies like Dell have been flirting with the idea for awhile. If this does well, and it already looks like it will/has, then you can expect a flood of these devices.
 
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