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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Personally, I think the Deck is too big for my tastes, but the beauty of the ecosystem is that anyone can make one while still having almost all the Deck features.

I'd love to have a Vita or even PSP sized Steam handheld with a great screen for smaller titles, but that comes with its own problems

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At some point you're going to struggle to put a capable x86 machine in a device that small.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the one big thing Valve probably won't touch is ARM because unlike WINE, that's a whole other beast in which the only valid solution is for game devs to compile for ARM, because translation layers like Rossetta and Box64 will always have 20-30% performance losses.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

There's been reports of Valve looking at ARM for Proton actually but x86 chips keep getting better and more efficient. Not to mention Mali and Adreno are laughably bad compared to Radeon and Arc.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Might run into trouble with UIs as well, but the heart wants what the heart wants.

[–] raptir@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the Deck is too big for my tastes

That's what she said.

Honestly though I love the size of the deck but could even go a little bigger. Agree that as more manufacturers start using SteamOS it will be great to have options.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you kidding me? Steam Deck is so big and clunky. Don't even get me started on the piss poor ergonomics and the thing is fucking heavy as shit too!

I love it because it's open source, but it's shortcomings really leave a lot to be desired in my opinion.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

I think it's perfectly sized. No need for change. And the OLED model is noticeably more lightweight than the original LCD model, so the newer one isn't too heavy.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

Interesting detail, I didn't know that about the oled model

[–] fishy 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you, I have large hands but I'm a serious gamer. An hour in and I'm already feeling it's weight and feeling the fatigue. It's a very impressive device, but it doesn't suit me and my needs at all.

Bought an r36s and it's glorious. Playing all the classic SNES and PSX games I didn't play back in the day. Can grind in an RPG for hours one handed and it fits in my pocket. Bonus is that it's so cheap if it breaks or gets lost it's no big deal.

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah, that's what's up! I'd definitely like to have another console to run emulators on, that isn't the deck. Lol.

Odin 2 still has my attention.