Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

[SvennoJ]

Captain_Yuri said:

SvennoJ said:

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.

You can get Windows 10 for free from MS officially and it will run without any issues. 1TB SSD costs maybe $200.

But the key here is the entry price point. If a person is going for the $399 price point, they already know what they are getting into. And MicroSD for the majority of PC games isn't a bad option if they don't mind waiting for the load times as most games including a number of AAA games as they are optimized for slow console hard drives which the MicroSD might be able to handle as the read speeds are the important factor. Hopefully DF or someone will do extensive testing soon enough though but we do have some examples from youtubes that tested this. Also Valve themselves said when IGN was testing the Deck, the games were running off of the MicroSD card.

It should work fine from SD cards. 5200 rpm drives only read at about 110 MB/s, not much faster and hampered by seek times. It will be hard for the PC crowd to go back to 5200 rpm drive speeds though. But true, the subsidized 399 entry point does make it look good.