Steam Deck looks awful

[Kakadu18]

Captain_Yuri said:

rapsuperstar31 said:

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.

Having doubts is fine. But criticizing a product without doing research is not.

Kakadu18 said:

I don't need to see hands on previews to know that the battery life would be an issue to me and even more so the weight.

It might sell one or two million units, maybe even more, but regardless there's still a ceiling to a product like this. It's not a console, it's a PC.

But how do you know what it's battery life would be without watching any reviews/previews?

You do know PCs sell a ton of units right? Have you ever looked at how many PCs get sold by vendors each year? While I agree it won't sell all that much, (I'd be surprised if it gets above 10 million units before revision 2 comes out), saying that it won't sell because it's a PC is nonsense.

https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/global-pc-market-Q4-2021

Handheld PCs never sold much. Seriously, it's not hard to understand what I meant.

And I don't need to watch previews to know stuff about the Steam Deck. I just googled it. With some games it can last longer, up to 8 hours, but with most games, especially more demanding games it's closer to the lower end at 2 hours, which is short. The OG Switch had a minimum of 2.5 hours, also to short. On my v2 Switch I can play a game like BotW for over 5 hours. Since the Steam Deck's battery life is shorter and it's pretty heavy it's not for me.

When I play in handheld I like to lie on my bed, it wouldn't be very comfortable with this thing.