• @[email protected]
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    55 hours ago

    Everyone is trying to make a “Steam Deck killer” but none of these companies understand what makes the Steam Deck so good. Its not the touchpads, the back peddles, the good motion controlls, the capacitive sticks, or the good grips (although they help), its the software that truly makes a steam deck different from every other PC handheld. Everything just works and everything works together. Fundamentally you cannot recreate that experience with another poorly designed launcher, you need a true controller UI.

  • @vala
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    77 hours ago

    Imagine running windows on a handheld lol

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    • no touchpads

    and assuming it’s like their other handhelds…

    • no back buttons
    • runs windows
    • LiveLM
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      35 hours ago

      Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

      These people don’t fucking see the light urrghhhhhhhh

    • @halendos
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      1413 hours ago

      And most likely poor repairability

  • @kitnaht
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    1713 hours ago

    I don’t think people understand that Valve also is going to own this space because of all the work they’ve done on Linux, them not being a trash company to their users (though, THAT bar is low).

    So this is going to be very much a “Raspberry Pi” type of situation where - yeah, you can buy better SBC’s than a Raspberry Pi; but everyone buys the Pi because it’s got a lot of developer backing and an amazing ecosystem.

    • LiveLM
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      25 hours ago

      This is what always springs to mind to me.
      Valve has a vested interest in keeping the Steam Deck 1 up-to-date even after they eventually release the 2.
      Can we say the same about ASUS? And what about the smaller OEMs? Aya Neo has 14 handhelds out for gods’ sake