Should I get a Steam Deck?

neku@discuss.tchncs.de to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz – 82 points –

I had an old MSI gaming laptop from 2016 which was amazing for me (I always had slow, 2nd hand laptops before) and now I've sold it and my PS Vita in order to buy a Steam Deck. I want to play Elden Ring, the Souls series, Sekiro and some indie games like Vampire Survivor. I also want to emulate games (Gameboy gen up to PS2 gen). Would that be a good investment or should I just go for a PC? I travel frequently because of my job.

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I completed Elden Ring on the Steam Deck without problems and I assume the other Souls games would run even better. Vampire Survivor also runs fine, no surprise really.

It is awkward as a laptop, but for gaming it is really nice. It's the closest you can get to a gaming console for PC games.

From what I've seen it looks and runs decently smooth even on a bigger screen

Yes, I played most of it docked to my TV using a PS5 controller and only some undocked. There is no difference between docked and handheld mode like for the Switch though so it is fine either way.

Just don't expect the highest quality settings for any recent AAA game. Due to hardware specific optimizations it is seriously impressive what the machine can actually run.

@Swiggles @neku does both of your USB ports work at the same time? i heard of flash drives not being read on the ports.

Sorry, I cannot really answer this. I am using the docked USB ports for mouse and keyboard receivers and have never tried any external storage.