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I had so many issues trying to check out that I eventually gave up and bought it on my PC instead.
It essentially flows like a web browser version of an app instead of an actual store app. The store seems like an afterthought more than a money grabbing feature for the system. Speaking of the Steam Store, I had an absolute nightmare of a time trying to purchase games through it on the Deck. It’s completely changed how I interact with the Steam Store and I don’t foresee my mentality changing going forward. Since acquiring the Steam Deck, most if not all my Steam Store purchases have been dictated by the ability to play the game on the Deck. For games you’re looking to purchase on the Steam Store though, I did find it to be a bit of a crapshoot whether the compatibility matched the ratings well enough. If you have a vast library on Steam, that isn’t too much of an issue as you are afforded the opportunity to play each game out on the handheld to discover it for yourself. What I’m trying to imply is that the compatibility rating isn’t a perfect denominator for which games will give you a good experience on the handheld. On the flip side of things, Little Witch in the Woods only has a yellow rating and it runs just about flawlessly on the Deck. Earlier this year during the NBA playoffs, I was logging a lot of hours on NBA 2K22 and I would constantly get kicked out of the game and have to reboot it even though it’s supposed to be at the highest compatibility level with the Steam Deck. I will say that even green checked games can potentially crash and burn on occasion. I won’t go too in-depth about the compatibility ratings that Valve designates with games as I covered that in the Hands-On video and it still holds true half a year later. This only has 16 GB of ram and 256 GB SSD and I’ve seen significantly larger PC’s not able to handle many of the things that the Steam Deck can. It’s amazing to think that I’m able to play such a huge variety of games (not through streaming) because of this AMD Zen 2 processor and an AMD RDNA 2 GPU.
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We literally have a portable PC capable of playing games booted internally or off a micro-SD card, that puts the library of the Nintendo Switch to shame.Īll of that is only for a price tag of $529 for the middle variant we purchased. Keep in mind this is all without the need to be tethered to Wi-fi through game streaming services (although you can do that too if you would like).
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Not only can you play a large number of AAA titles from your Steam library, the Deck can even handle emulation of PS3 and some X-Box games. Sure, there have been lots of other portable consoles from major OEM’s and also Chinese startups, but the Steam Deck arguably outperforms anything out there as of the publishing of this article. The reason I feel that performance holds more value for this particular product is because we honestly have not seen a product like this before. That’s slightly ironic seeing as this should be a portable console, meaning form factor should be of pivotal importance. I would rank performance as slightly more important than design when it comes to the Steam Deck. The second is the design and build quality that Valve decided to use for this portable console. The most important one is how the Deck performs in terms of what games it can handle. All you need to do is look at this product in the scope of two categories. The Steam Deck is quite simple to review.
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It’ll all make sense at the end of this full review. So now that it has been nearly half a year with the Steam Deck, I’ve come to the conclusion that while the Steam Deck is amazing, it’s also not a great consumer product. The times that my body would allow my hands to press buttons, they were on the Steam Deck. I then lost a month of my life, literally bedridden and hospitalized thanks to a nasty Covid spell from that trip. My excitement was at an all time high as this machine, in theory, gave me everything I ever wanted in a mobile console. I took it with me 3 days after I received it in the mail onto a 5 hour journey from LA to New York. When I first received the Valve Steam Deck, it coincided with my first airplane trip since Covid began.
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