The Steam Deck effect on my game purchases:

Why even clutter these pie charts with the 0%s?

Update of previous compatibility results broken down by SteamDB rating (2023-02-03):

A total of 7580 out of 9926 tested Steam games are now rated "playable+".

34.2% of the 1339 "90+ games" and 24.1% of the 4285 "85+ games" are now "verified".

72.8% of the 1339 "90+ games" and 55.6% of the 4285 "85+ games" are now "playable+".

23.6% of the tested games are (without tweaks) "unsupported" (not playable or only with major problems). The higher the SteamDB rating, the lower this percentage becomes: at 80+ rating it's only 18%, at 85+ only 16.6% and at 90+ only 14.4% "unsupported".

I have now also divided the results into price categories. Valve seems to primarily check the more expensive games for compatibility: 55.3% of games from $20 upwards and 33% of games between $10 and $20 are already classified. Only 4.2% of the games up to $2 have already compatibility results; the percentage is slightly higher for freeware games (6.5%).

The tested games between $0.01 and $20 are with 79 - 82% "playable+" clearly more compatible than the freeware games (67.8%) and the expensive games (70.6%).

Over 2000 games of my own Steam library are now categorized as "verified" or "playable". Filtered for "singleplayer", the playable+ percentage increases from 44% to 56%:

Great update for big Steam libraries:

Although I'm still under 10,000 games, the library section is much more fluid now. Especially when switching from the "installed" tab to the "All Games" tab.

Or if you have thousands of emulated games when switching into the "Non Steam" tab.

Loving my Steam Deck it's basically the only thing I game on for the past 4 months, though I'm already looking at maybe upgrading it to an Aya Neo Geek later this year, will see if Valve have anything in the cards to announce by around November.

Wonder how long it will take for a Deck 2, given the success. I live in a country with still no access to it, but I would gladly try to grab one on an international trip.

Got a 256gb SSD for £20, upgrading was as simple as I hoped. The 256gb from valve is definitely a rip off.

Native Ray Tracing on the Deck:

https://www.gizchina.com/2023/03/04/you-wont-believe-this-valve-enabled-native-ray-tracing-on-steam-deck/

I'm heavily relying on my 512GB SD card to give the internal 64Gb storage a rest, but I should maybe update this as well.

is it worth purchasing? I already have a high end laptop