Steam deck portable handheld gaming PC from Valve

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Kinda want to get one for travel for work, if 2028 is correct I could stomach buying older hardware.

Is the steam deck still superior to all competitor handhelds ?
 

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Kinda want to get one for travel for work, if 2028 is correct I could stomach buying older hardware.

Is the steam deck still superior to all competitor handhelds ?
Steam deck works great for tons of games. Battery life is an issue, but if you just want to plug it in in a hotel room the start gaming its amazing. I don't really think its about better vs a switch. I've never used the switch, but I'm sure I'd be happy with one of those too if I had any games. Never thought about it, but I have hundreds of games on steam, so deck is great.... Even though I play a few specific games like 90% of the time.
 
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Kinda want to get one for travel for work, if 2028 is correct I could stomach buying older hardware.

Is the steam deck still superior to all competitor handhelds ?
I travel with mine and it’s great. Have a magnetic lithium battery I can use for backup battery but I’ve never used it for the deck as I don’t play for hours on end and can charge it between playing, or just have it plugged in while playing in the hotel bed. I did play it for a long time on a flight once but there are plugs on flights now so it wasn’t an issue.

Everything looks so good on the OLED screen.
 

Noodleface

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Steam deck works great for tons of games. Battery life is an issue, but if you just want to plug it in in a hotel room the start gaming its amazing. I don't really think its about better vs a switch. I've never used the switch, but I'm sure I'd be happy with one of those too if I had any games. Never thought about it, but I have hundreds of games on steam, so deck is great.... Even though I play a few specific games like 90% of the time.
I have a switch but there isn't much I really want to play on it. Was more interested in other manufacturers offerings like the rog ally, etc.
 

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There was some news about getting steamos onto the ally, and maybe more handhelds a couple months back. Not sure where that ended up.
 

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Grabbed a steam deck. Wondering if anyone has played the Pathfinder games or DoS2/BG3 on there's and how it runs?

I know of protondb but curious your experiences
 

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I subscribed to GeForce Now the other day and damn this service is made for the Deck. Been playing PoE2 with a rtx4080 in the Ultimate tier.

Flawless as long as you got a good connection. No input lag that's noticable for me at least.