I'm still gaming on my GTX 1660 which I got a couple years ago. Idiots will blow the tiniest sliver of wishful thinking into 'confirmed', don't listen to them.Įven without judging from Valve's past actions, PCs have been largely stangnant.

Sure, there's people claiming the SD2 to be right around the corner, but we had nutjobs claiming a 'Switch Pro' got announced.

To be honest, I would consider the base model Steam Deck to be a good budget gaming system, even compared to stationary PCs.Īs for concern about the Deck becoming obsolete, you know Valve isn't a phone company, right? Check out their previous hardware activities and you won't find that phone-like breackneck update cycle. It is only the second device providing compromise-free mobile gaming (Vita/DS required separate game libraries) and having one's Steam library in a mobile gaming context is a huge boon! Which is the main reason why I'm getting it, Switch games are certainly great (between BOTW, Odyssey, Kingdom Battle and the announced MP4, I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the lack of third-party titles) but I'd really love to play the same campaign on subway as I did the evening before on couch and I got so many such playworthy Steam games! Also the screen is just too small for any 'office' work. I really wanted to have on of these (the antiglare one ofc, i have shiny screens), but once i started to thing about what i'll be doing i realized i'm good with my nvidia shield k1 tablet and pc at home (and thus could use those money for smth more important). In the end it really comes to what YOU have planned for the device yourself.Ģ) Do you own / like to play games that can be played 20mins a time and have easy controlsģ) Do you play games that need headphones/mic a lotĤ) Are those games you want to play compatible (or at least verified) with deck (the chance of becoming one also counts) I also don't have a lot of games that could work with little to no controls any handheld has (those i could count using fingers on my hands). Would i do so if i bounght that one ugly portable case? Not really. I don't deny it has power and it's 'portable', but i don't really play games while sh*tting / sitting at restaurant / park, nor do i fancy carry my pc out there. Took me a while to get to my decision though.

Will the stream deck be worth it