It's pretty awesome that the steamdeck is now basically a viable and far less limited alternative to consoles for around the same price as one.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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This was already true for x86 handhelds, companies like Ayaneo and GPD have been around for quite some time. However, removing Windows from the equation and the huge resource overhead it causes, and making Linux a viable alternative with their work on Proton, has absolutely shaken the industry up. It looks like Microsoft is going to try and release a hybrid Windows/Xbox OS for OEMs. I did try out Win11 on my Lenovo Legion Go for an hour or so and it was just awful compared to Bazzite (that uses the Steam Deck UI). So all up it's a pretty exciting time for handheld and low power gaming!
Ayaneo and GPD are too expensive for to be compared to consoles imo. They've been above a grand and in general similarly priced as a laptop with the same internal hardware. Edit: The Steam Deck basically halved the price for an powerful x86 handheld, and made it comparable to a Switch. This is imo the only reason it sells so well.
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Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop is upon us
Well the year of the Linux desktop will have to wait a few years considering Valve time.
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I'm quite worried that the quality of experiences with Linux gaming in the eyes of Joe public will go down the drain once every random crap by some Chinese factory will be seen as "a steam deck" because it runs SteamOS, just like how Samsung is dog shit and gives android a bad rep because of it's weird bloatware.
Samsungs hardware is not crap, their locked down UI might be but apple and Samsung hardware are among the best. Also fuck Samsung and Apple.
-sent from my Galaxy S23 Ultra.
Bloatware = software. OP is not calling out their hardware. Just that Android gets a bad rep because Samsung keeps bloating their OS with useless software.
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The same fallacy of someone buying a $200 android, complaining it sucks, then getting a $700 IPhone, to confirm in their mind that all androids are cheap crap. Ignorant consumers are gonna ignorantly consume.
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I don't think that'll be much of a problem. Nobody thinks Windows is shit because there are cheap low powered laptops.
You’d be surprised. The amount of times I saw people go from 600€ hp laptops to 1800€ MacBooks only to think that Macs are amazing and windows is terrible is quite high. At least double digit.
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Valve says a Deck Verified game will only ever have a SteamOS compatibility rating that is the same or better
What about point and click games? It can’t be the same or better without trackpads?
The rating is only about whether SteamOS will run the game and its middleware. Its not about how well the game runs on the hardware or with the inputs for the device.
Its basically like saying its compatible with Windows or MacOS - it will work with SteamOS if its SteamOS verified. It is an OS compatibility rating; slightly more than it just working with proton or linux to include "game functionality, launcher functionality and anto-cheat support" according to the steam announcement.
Whereas Deck Verified means it specifically works with the Deck hardware too, including satisfactory performance and inputs.
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/532097310616717411
I thought it’s like where it gives you a few lines of reasoning like “text is too small”, “doesn’t show universal prompts” or whatever.
It's only about whether the game runs on SteamOS, handhelds and screen size, input and performance thereof don't matter for the rating like it does for Deck Verified.
It already show if controller are fully/partially/not supported
And they also show which controllers are supported or if you need the steam input to translate the commands
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Steam box v2 in a few years. PC gaming is cannibalizing the PC and handheld market damn
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Related to the image, not the article: I find the asymmetrical thumbstick layout to be terrible, ergonomically - the layout on the Switch sometimes causes me physical pain. I'm very glad that Valve didn't go that way.
Some like it, others don't. It's more important that consumers have options rather than absolutely everyone being forced to agree on one way being best.
this philosophy applies to many things, not just controller layout.
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Give me the desktop version! I’ve got an old SFF pc ready to become my home console, since I never got an Xbox Series or PS5
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