Guess I'll be playing this on the Deck. I swear, if Valve doesn't email me this week regarding my Steam Deck pre-order, I shall install EGS out of spite.

Elden Ring of Soul Hackers? Oh nevermind I'm a numpty.. yeah would be a awesome game to play on a portable.

Heh that'll teach them! I think you should be okay. Iirc you managed to preorder in super early so you'll be fine. Shenanigans aside, I'd be awfully tempted to try install win 10/11 as soon as I get one. For emulators if anything and maybe EGS and other games/platforms that won't be on Linux lol.

Windows is what I am most curious about with the Steam Deck. There are a number of functions on the Steam Deck that will certainly need drivers. For example, the capacities analog sticks that you need to press down in order to use the Gyro for aiming. I am curious as to how Valve will handle it. Are they going to provide drivers for all the functions on Windows or is it mainly just going to work as long as it's a game on Steam or something else?

It will be interesting to see though. I will initially be using the built in OS just to see how it goes but I might Switch to Windows 11.

Same. Yeah the experience obviously won't be as streamlined. Plus you won't get the optimisations and features from Valve's custom Steam OS. I'd assume they'd have everything running and Windows drivers at launch though it might be a little more complex than that. I'm hoping it'll be all recognized and at worst you'd have to install some Xinput drivers for the controller or something or maybe on their API recognizing it on Big Picture mode. Not too long to go until we see if and how its all possible.

Yup, will see how it goes. And that's a good bet, there is plenty of games and stuff to do when you get yours anyways. Heck you might not even need or want to depending on how nice the experience is on Steam OS. And I'm sure there will be a dedicated community of developers making stuff for Steam OS (or Linux).

Yeah, I don't really see Valve putting out all the stops to make sure the Windows experience is the same as Steam OS, on a device that's built by Valve for Steam store. They'll likely support for some features and maybe a few drivers, but I just don't see them putting in double the effort to make both OS's 100% the same/compatible on their device, when we kinda get the hint in the room, that Valve really want this device to push their OS (which Steam machines failed at doing).

If I was Valve and was trying to push my own Linux distro to tempt users away from Windows, I'd honestly just focus on pushing my own space, instead of someone else's.

Nvidia may spend $10 billion on components for RTX 4000 including 5nm capacity from TSMC, according to pcgamesn.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/RTX-4000-5nm-10-billion

These are going to expensive, aren't they..

as if that isn't the same for every previous series

Under normal circumstances, yeah.. though looking at how fucked the GPU market is right now and with rising costs.. yeah. Going to have to sell a kidney for one of these :P

At least Mr Jensen can afford a few more Ferrari's.

Bethesda launcher to close and migrating to Steam. Can MS buy Ubisoft so we don't have to deal with Ubisoft Connect.

? ATTENTION PC PLAYERS: We are retiring the Bethesda Launcher and moving to Steam.

Here’s everything you’re going to want to know about what to expect and how to migrate your Bethesda Library to Steam: https://t.co/KBBokFeZkt pic.twitter.com/f0KWBqd0kp

— Bethesda (@Bethesda) February 22, 2022]