Steam Deck looks awful

[DonFerrari]

the-pi-guy said:

DonFerrari said:

I know I'm repeating myself, but giving a free pass to Valve because they didn't care isn't a good atittude by customers, sure we can agree they didn't designed the hardware, but they gave it their stamp when calling steam machines and I severely doubt there were no absolutely minimum requirement or some agreement on specs and prices (and in the lack of it then is even more failure from the company).

Making a good controller doesn't help in experience on making a "console", or would we expect some of the 3rd party accessorie sellers on consoles to be able to make their own console? And sure we need to wait for the product to properly release to have it working and fully tested on the market.

It is expected of fixed HW to run games better than more pricey competition even more when the first is subsided (sold at loss) and the second is sold for a big markup (reason why even with some Sony games going PC I'm still not moving, the price of PS5 as a whole doesn't buy even half of the equivalent GPU in Brazil unfortunatelly). But still some of the glaring issues of the steam deck is from their lack of experience and I don't know why defend it as non-issues.

Are people saying there aren't any issues? 

I don't think anyone is saying its a perfect piece of hardware, but I think it's hard to argue that there is better hardware in the space that it is working in.

There are similar fixed hardware to the Steam Deck, and the Linus preview compares a couple of them, but they cost close to 3x what the Steam Deck costs, and the steam deck generally runs better, and for longer.

Chazore is dismissing all the issues as non-issues. Like suddenly PC gamers are ok with 30fps, semi-portable but no great battery etc.

Sure I can see it being the best one available on a market that well only have bad HW available, that is on smaller PCs. But when we have had PSP, PSVita and Switch as portables that are acceptably near console level games (and in case of switch it is also equivalent to console in some aspects) then it is hard to defend the mistakes in design or sacrifices. Like if you make the portable so big (and well the screen isn`t as big) then do it properly for battery life (one of my main issues with smartphones is they having giant screens but ultra thin, while it could be a tad bulkier to have double the battery life).

On price we go back to the point that on PC space the HW are being sold for a good premium, and it is good that SteamDeck isn`t going the same way, but I guess it still have a premium.