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Kakadu18 on 08 February 2022
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Conina said:
Mummelmann said:

And we haven't even mentioned the storage issue, these won't be taking physical discs of any kind so internal storage will fill up incredibly fast. The 64GB model is a joke, modern games are often huge, and buying extra storage in the form of SD cards or other solutions is an extra expense for the consumer.

microSD cards are pretty cheap these days, less than 10 cents per GB... f.e. 400 GB for less than €40, 512 GB for less than €50.

And the games seem to load faster from a microSD on Steam deck than the same games from HDD on PS4/Pro or Xbox One/S/X.

You can even hotswap microSD cards on the Steam Deck, so you don't have to reboot the device like on Switch.

Also there are many great games that should run fine on Steam Deck which are a lot smaller than 10 GB.

I've got a 512 GB card for 30€ once from some company I've never heard of and never again will I even try buying cheap cards. It didn't work, it was broken. All the other ones from Sandisk for example are at least 100€. Their cards work perfectly. You can get them for less than 50€, but there's a high chance that they're cheap trash, just like the price suggests.