hinch said:
They showed it running Star Wars: Fallen Order, Death Stranding and Control. Valve said it should run most current games on medium/high so no reason to doubt that. There's obviously an audience for it since hundreds of thousands hand preordered it (that we know).. Some of which are from VGC. Like I've been wanting a portable PC like an Aya but couldn't justify spending that much on a handheld. With Deck, its low entry price its definitely something I can see using a lot for pick up and play games Yes this is low power device but tbh its astonishing that we actually have the tech to play these games at this quality in a handheld and Valve managed to that without passing the majority of cost to us. |
Aren't those all 8th/9th cross-gen titles? I'm not disliking idea of fairly powerful handheld (though I don't have much interest in handhelds, no mater the power), but given that it is not a handheld of a publisher who has rich 1st party output, I'm finding it somewhat hard to wrap my head around it.
I mean, I could easily see MS doing something like this and "forcing" developers to have 3rd version of Xbox Series games and hit mainstream audience with it, but I'm not so sure about this one...unless they intend to release updated version every two years or so.
