Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/
and now the steamdeck replaced all of them.
honestly with how bulky and heavy it is it’s pushing the limits of portability. gone are the days of pocket transport! or maybe I should just get oversized pockets lol
It is more portable than a ps4/5 as some people will say that.
But steamdeck is right now the most “portable” modern device with the best price / performance value. it cant be carried like a ds in your pocket thats for sure but with a nice package it is pretty good to handle.
true true I love mine but I’m always scared to bring it anywhere because I feel like I’m gonna end up dropping it
I highly recommend dbrands KillSwitch case! It is expensive, but once you put that thing on the Deck, it literally feels so much better (and safer!) in my hands! The grip is the best I’ve ever seen!
Nope it is the ROG Ally : better design and form factor, better autonomy (OLED is fine but need more power), cheaper, better desktop solution (you can print), Xbox pass.
As usual dishonest people will down vote.
Windows on handheld is battery drain and UI/UX is the worst on there, worse design(i just say “destroying Microsd” and then not even repair that flaw and scam their customers from their repairs ), clump of plastic with no ergonomic, propiatary connector for external gpu ( steamdeck doesnt need that as its good enough for 99% ) cheaper? ??? Desktop solution and their “ROG Ally software” is crappy 10$ development. Linux > Windows on handheld for battery and performance. You only get windows for xbox game pass. ( There are alternatives on linux too i think ).
The prices are almost equal, steamdeck you can easier upgrade and have better support and community ( see you ), the oled on steamdeck is peak and controlls are the best there.
Steamdeck is a bit more portable as it isnt as THICK as the ROG Ally. + Valve doesnt iterate every year over their handheld but updates their os.
Every serious battery life test will teach you that the ROG is the winner. I bough a brand new ROG for 350 bucks. Good luck to get a better price for a steamdeck. For the weight my ROG : 608g / Steamdeck : 669g.
I doubt the battery live as its on windows and has more beefed up specs to supporg windows. Ok i had one in my hands i guess ergonomics are completly different when it felt heavier.
350 bucks i get a steamdeck too i guess if it eats my sd cards its an ok price to pay
I can use my phone or tablet as a portable screen for my Xbox
Can even use it as a portable screen for my PC
Why would I want a steam deck vs having a bigger tablet screen and a controller I don’t have to stare at?
Portability, but the steamdeck is as portable as my tablet if it can’t fit it into a pocket.
Have you tried it? It’s quite nice. It plays all my favorite retro games via emulation and most modern games I care about. I can dock it and use a controller and bigger screen. Oh, it also functions as a pretty solid desktop solution if I want.
Solide desktop solution without any printer drivers. Stop to feed steam, there are better solutions for retro gaming.
But still this scraps on that topic is a bulky ps4/5/xbox PORTABLE for you? Steamddck can stream onto bigger displays too or evem remote play things that are to high gpu intensive onto your main pc.
A tablet cant play games ( except mobile games ) on its own.
It has a nice case for transport and the controlls are the best on the market ( even upgradable / easy to repair ) i would love a “just the controller” part of the steamdeck.
And if you need a tablet + controller + the console itself. THIS is NOT portable in any way or form as you just need a literal backpack full of periphials including power cord to power it 24/7.
I don’t need to bring my Xbox around. Simply open the xbox app and my Xbox screen is now on my tablet anywhere I’m at.
My tablet can stream onto bigger displays or even stream my PC.
You don’t need to carry around the console
Ahh its cloud gaming then, like steam link. It works the same.
Steam link is not cloud gaming. Steam link serves the game from your own PC, not a server in the cloud.
The Xbox processes the game.
Tablet just streams screen and sends inputs from/to Xbox.
So you don’t really need an extreme tablet/phone/laptop
Im bringing my tablet/phone anywhere I’m going, so having a steamdeck would just be an extra thing to carry and worry about charging.
You can do on-screen controls that aren’t bad for some games. Otherwise, Xbox controller.
The controller in the steamdeck has to kill its battery life some. 2 extra AA batteries, and I could use my Xbox controller for weeks.
I’d rather have 4x the screen size and not have to hold it the entire time while being semi-mobile. I’m not going to walk around and play on a steamdeck, maybe some do and then that’s a plus on the steamdeck.
Steam deck is nice and I can see why people enjoy it. My thing is why more people don’t like tablet/phone/laptop gaming and talk about the steamdeck like it’s a game changer.
My tablet is basically my PC at home. I can access and do everything remotely, including gaming.
I bought myself an Anbernic, and I’m very pleased. GB pocket sized, can run PS1 and less demanding Dreamcast games
With Emudeck, you also have like at least 5 handhelds in one. I’ll take the variety over portability in this scenario. :p
Or even just the phone Steam Link app + controller grip (ex. gamesir-x2)
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I had the first GDP Win and after that would never buy something from them again.
Maybe the fourth iteration is better, but I can’t imagine it has better build quality or performance to the deck.
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Interesting to know it’s more powerful.
Sounds like they might have improved some of the build quality. That first GDP Win though has probably sullied my opinion of them indefinitely.
There are cheaper and better options like Evercade or Retroid.
Cheaper maybe, but better? No way.
$99 to $175 and it is pocket size.
But that is just for retro games so of course jts a lot cheaper steamdeck you can play retro and AAA games
Huh excuse me?! Have you seen the handle on the GameCube?
The Vita stands as the best when hacked and paired with a sd2vita.
Now, but when it was released, it sucked. I think it’s biggest downfall was they didn’t add a UMD drive to it so it wasn’t backwards compatible with any of the PSP games. If they kept that, it might have sold well.
Not to mention those stupid overpriced memory cards.
I have mine stored somewhere. Got any websites to help with the hacking?
Thanks!
I still have mine!
I had a green one. Think it might still be around somewhere too.
Preserve it!
Eh. So much shit that could’ve been preserved when we emptied out the house I grew up in as dad died and grandma moved to a home. No room where to put them and nooot really anyone to preserve them for…
Lots of old electronics as well. I hope I have the gameboy somewhere, but it’s also possible it was in my storage a few years ago when it burned down because a bum fell asleep in the storage room with a lit cigarette.
Serious question because I never had any handhelds back in that era, but what made the Vita suck? I’ve heard there’s some great games on it despite opinions about the console and it’s always been unanimous that the PSP was great, but how did Sony screw it up? Not going out and buying either one right now, but I never really see specific reasons mentioned.
They dropped the UMD drive and replaced it with that gimmicky rear touchpad thing is probably the biggest reason.
They dropped something incredibly functional and would have given the Vita access to the entire library of PSP games at a time when it needed that library the most to compete against the smartphone (Vita was released in 2012)
I think the 3DS/DS were able to remain dominant so long even in the face of strong competition from the rise of the smartphone was because of the deep library of older titles to keep it going forward.
Pretty sure it was the memory cards insane price more than UMD support
Great, thank you! Yeah, dropping the UMD seems asinine when they were struggling to provide a library and demand.
I said a read portable console!: a smartphone
Where is the Gameboy Micro?
Or did it already win and this is for second place?
I enjoyed my Vita for its portability, and I didn’t even jailbreak it to emulate games. For a long time, any indie dev releasing on PS3 would put their game on Vita as well.
I do love my Switch Lite tho. Never had a single issue with it, while my wife’s normal Switch can’t keep working joycons to save its life. Vampire Survivors does bog the framerate occasionally though.
What’s wrong with the joycons on your normal switch? The drift thing?
The drift is very real and inevitable. The joycons have such a high failure rate.
Yeah, she’s warrantied them two or three times. It was always either drift or the damn things just not working for whatever reason. Eventually she gave up, I couldn’t blame her.
Pick up a pair of “Gullikit joycon Hall FX sensors” and never worry about drift again. Hall FX sensors are damn near the perfect joystick
I’ve seen the pair go for ~$20
Cool, thanks! Never really thought about 3rd party stuff, it being Nintendo and all. I’ll give em a shot!
Nope you forgot about the Game.Com, the best VR experience after the Virtual Boy that 1993 could offer
I liked mine, but it was the only thing that gave me eye strain as a kid. I would play battlefront for half an hour, look up, and couldn’t see shit
Maybe I was just playing it wrong
The 1000 is more moddable than the 3000. You can even get an IPS screen for them now.
Lmao that’s nothing compared to mines
Nah dude OG gameboy all the way
