Steam Deck looks awful

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Captain_Yuri said:

Chazore said:

They hand around those Famitsu sales threads and are basing their entire opinion on the whole system by it's looks, I'd say the conclusions have jumped the shark and that it's gonna be a doo-doo, because it's bigger than the Wii U pad.

Meanwhile, I've been waiting years for a device that's nowhere near as finnicky and over expensive as a GDPW, but at the same time, not as underpowered as the Siwitch (also no horrid joycon drift and expensive joycon prices).

Besides Switch being a portable device, it hardly fits in my pocket and looks goofy even if I managed to cram it in there. It's still a device that needs it's own carry case, one that even the Deck will have.

I would def agree that the overall weight of the device could be an issue. 

Overall takes on handling the device have been rather positive, and the first batch was practically sold out. I don't think the device is going to do as poorly as OP is suggesting. 

It reminds me of some of the switch haters back in the day. When Nintendo moved from 3ds which was genuinely portable to the Switch, some people said it oh it's not portable enough to be a success. It's too big and heavy to appeal to the masses like the wiiU gamepad. Who wants a switch when you can have an ipad instead? Mobile gaming is the future! And the list goes on.

Now I am not saying the Deck will be anywhere near as successful. Hell it's not even being sold outside of the Steam store and it's only coming out in a few regions. But some of the arm-chair expert opinions based on pictures who haven't even watch legitimate hands on previews of which there are plenty of is quite frankly, hilarious.

I personally use a carrying case cause with Joycon drift, putting the switch in my pocket would probably increase the chances of that significantly.

After the Wii U failures the doubters of the Switch were justified.  I buy every Nintendo console so I would have bought it even if it failed but I don't have a problem with anyone that doubted the Switch.  Valve failed with the steam machines so having some doubt for the Steamdeck is fine as well.  Lets hope the machine rocks and does well.