Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

[SvennoJ]

Captain_Yuri said:

Paperboy_J said:

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.

The 399 point is pretty gimped by the storage though, and the GPD Win also comes with windows 10 installed (which costs $120 to activate) The ultimate GDP win version comes with 1tb SSD (replaceable), still costs less than my gaming laptop. Its cpu is faster, but less cores and the GPU is much slower. But probably enough for 720p.

Anyway, by the time you have the steam deck gimped out with 1tb storage and windows 10, you're probably looking at $800 as well.