Paperboy_J said:
Captain_Yuri said:
There is certainly a market for it as GPD Win 3 which starts at $800+ and it's alternatives like Aya Neo that has similar pricing to the GPD Win 3 seems to get yearly iterations and gets sold out during their kickstarter/indiegogo campaigns. The Deck costs significantly less while giving more performance than those. But the thing that makes the Steam Deck truly unique is the fact that you are getting 16GB of ram for $399 or even $529. Now consoles obviously give you that but they aren't full pledged PCs. So when you compare the Steam Deck to say a pre-built desktop and you go to say bestbuy or where ever, you will be very hard pressed to find any pre-built desktops that are new that will give you 16GB of ram for $399 or even $529. So while I am not recommending it for a desktop replacement, if a person was on a really tight budget... It could be a good desktop with a cheap USB-C dongle + keyboard/mouse if they need a PC in general. And that's really the unique thing. We never had as far as I remember, a subsidized PC. Consoles/handhelds were always subsidized but never a PC and that's what makes this exciting apart from it's other cool stuff like RDNA 2 and etc. |
Ok I'm beginning to understand the appeal now. It's just kind of weird to me because PC gamers have never really expressed much interest in handheld gaming before now. Or maybe they did want one, but with the power of a PC. |
Yea I think it mainly comes down to if a PC gamer wants to buy a handheld, their options are either paying $300 for a Switch or paying $800+ for a PC handheld from China like the GPD Win series. I think most would choose the Switch because $800 is not only a very high asking price, the idea that if anything went wrong, I'd have to ship it back to China assuming their customer support is decent is very essh. It's certainly why I own a Switch instead.
Now you have a third option starting at $399 and backed by Valve who you know is a legit company. I am not saying this will be a switch killer or anything but it has me very excited.
