I’ve been considering purchasing a steam deck. My pc is in my office, which limits interaction with the rest of the family if I want to play anything. I’ve tried playing mobile games, but just can’t get use to the controls. Think it’s worth getting one?
I appreciate it. I have an iPhone, but I’ll have to give this a try!
About the controller I can say I bought a ps4 controller a couple weeks ago. It works out of the box with my iPhone and with steam running on Linux. I had read it was compatible but it was so painless that it took me by surprise.
And proton is also fantastic. Most windows games work as well as natively, so you should be able to play most of them on the deck
I’ve tried that and for me the steam deck is better.
Well obviously a purpose-built piece of hardware is going to be a better experience than streaming a game to your phone. Streaming to your phone has the distinct advantage of being free.
I agree that streaming might be worth considering, but instead of Steam Play, which is quite meh, try Moonlight. That’s the client, and the open source server is called Sunshine. The performance and latency is much better. If you want to take it to the next level, you can add Tailscale to the mix for seamless streaming outside your local network/WiFi. As long as the underlying connection is fast enough, it tends to work really well.