That’s because it’s a fucking amazing device all around
Can it hook up to the tv? I want one but it's the price of a ps5 where I live so it's one or the other
Yes you can and it’s how I use it half the time. Keep in mind that the system is tuned to 720p/800p so you can either have the TV resolution and take a big performance hit or have it at the native resolution.
Definitely reduces performance, but there are some AAA games I can play at 1080/60fps with no issues.
It is notably still faster than a docked switch
Turning on FSR helps this a lot though. I frequently game on my 4K TV with FAR and it looks pretty damned good.
You should factor the cost of the games into it too, especially if you have an existing Steam library and aren't exclusively playing AAA games.
If not, it's a bit harder to recommend for exclusive TV use at that price.
My wife and kid like to game handheld, but I myself prefer to sit down on the couch and play on a controller
It's my only gaming system right now, although notably I'm not one of those people who thinks that anything under 4k @ 60fps is literally unplayable since I switched over from an old potato PS4 that I gave to a friend when I got the Deck, and I play on a pretty shit 720p TV too. I often play with it plugged into the TV, and use an old PS4 controller to play, and I've been prefectly happy. The quality's about the same I got on the PS4, but the library's sooo much bigger, and since it's a mobile device I can play in bed too if I feel like it.
I really like that I can play all my steam games on it. I don't have a gaming PC, but I can run anything from around the ps3 era like sleeping dogs which runs well on mine, and even newer non heavy duty games. So I do have a good 20 games I've bought over time on my library
Yeah the heavier duty stuff I play are eg. RDR2, Cyberpunk and Starfield (yeah yeah I know, I'm stupid, ugly, bad and wrong). RDR2 and Cyberpunk run just fine "out of the box" and look like the PS4 version did or even a bit better (although like I said I have a 🥔 TV), but admittedly Starfield can occasionally be an exercise in masochism. Works better than you'd expect though especially if you sacrifice more of the graphics, but it requires a bunch of fiddling with INI files because of course it does. Hilariously it looks worse than eg. RDR2 or Cyberpunk despite especially RDR2 being like 6 years old, again because of course it does.
Fantastic fucking system, really couldn't be more pleased.
You can! And you can even use PS5 (or any other bluetooth-capable) controllers with it.
We had a family night in the living room with mine, I used an xbox one X controller, wife used a dualshock 4, and kiddo used a Wii U controller (I was emulating a switch game, so the Wii U controller helped the little one a lot with the button mappings being correct on the faces).
and then upgrading to a Jsaux dock or the official dock later.
Agree with other commenter. If you're mobile or plan to move it at all, deck hands down. If it's going to sit there all the time, then probably ps5
Totally. I bought a usbc to hdmi so I could play jackbox party games when I traveled to friends/family.
It’s a laptop, you can hook it up to anything if you wanted
Buy a ps5 controller to go with it so motion sensing is there (it's awesome to use in shooter games like borderlands and tomb raider).
If you don't already have a bunch of computer games and you know you'll only be playing it on the TV (which would be silly, really) I'd probably say just get a ps5, though. That or someone's used gaming computer for $500 and just hook that to the TV. If you wouldn't use it outside your living room there are better options.
And it’s gotten to a point where it’s being used as a utility computer in places, if I recall. That could’ve potentially sent sales snowballing away from typical console sale figures.
It’s a Linux machine with good cpu, 16gb of ram, KDE and you can install stuff with flatpak AND distrobox. If you have a dock, there really is no reason not to use as a normal computer.
They use it in Ukraine to control machine gun turrets!
Ever since it was widely available, I see one on every flight I take. It's not surprising it's sold well.
I've never seen one on flights, but mine is always out
You're the one they see every flight. Keep up the good work
Sponsored by valve... I just fly all day long playing streak deck, part of their Deck Flyers influencer program
I was going to say the same thing, but then I spent my last few flights staring at elden ring. Who knows what was going on around me.
Never seen one Steam Deck in the public yet and I don't know any friends who bought one. I'm an europoor tho.
Valve has an incredible product on their hands, with the OLED model surely they will sell millions more. In a few years when a steam deck 2 comes out it will be an instant purchase for me. Valve hit a new stride with the deck.
Out of interest, do you own a steam deck already?
And if not, why are you so confident you'll buy the theoretical future "steam deck 2" instead of buying this current OLED gen?
I currently own a steam deck. I got it in the first batch of deliveries. As far as a tech product goes, I have never consistently used a tech product for this long outside of my desktop. I almost always find myself migrating back to my desktop for everything, except with the steam deck. I actually find myself doing things on my deck instead of my desktop.
When version 2 comes out (or if I can get a sweet deal on the OLED down the road) I will for sure be upgrading without hesitation.
I have a decent but aging gaming PC, but that desk doubles as my office now, so I don't always feel like doubling down my time in there after work.
Now I can game wherever.
Not only is the SteamDeck nice, SteamInput is amazing, no more unchangeable bindings.
Text heavy games aren't always the best at that resolution, but otherwise I'd say I've gamed more on it then on my 3080.
The opening scene of Subnautica 2 was a nice experience to have on a flight.
I'm in a similar situation. Streaming fron the PC to the deck is fantastic. Games the Deck struggles with are suddenly playable. Intense games that would normally ramp up the fan and only get a couple of hours of battery are suddenly easy for the Deck to handle. I highly recommend it.
I've wondered if it would be worth getting a dock to hook it up to my second monitor in desktop mode for just web browsing and watching videos.
I love love love my steamdeck! It re-invigorated my gaming! Currently loving Brotato.
I thought dynasty warriors would surely kill the battery, holy shit it's draining it as slow as some of my puzzle/sudoku games do! I've got 5 hours of ps3/PS4 (dare I say poorly ported?) goodness at my finger tips! Now if only I had time, energy, and no other obligations to play 10%as much as I wanted to
Could be the upside of poor multi-core optimisation.
I got mine like a month or two ago and it’s by far my favorite device. I’ll keep buying steam decks for as long as they make them.
They make alot of em, you are falling behind!
I’m not a big online multiplayer person, which I’ve been told makes me the model audience for it. My impressions have been nothing but positive for the six months I’ve owned mine. I haven’t had any issues with games either, which compared to the last Linux laptop I used is just wow. I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat 11 this week and the graphics it call pull off are impressive given its footprint. If a 2 comes out I’m definitely getting it day one.
I can’t believe how long the battery life is when playing Wii games on dolphin.
Like how can I play for hours and still have so much space left over?
Haha right? I’ve got an embarrassing amount of hours in animal crossing and Kirby Air Ride and neither makes the fan even turn on outside of the initial shader compilation.
So they just sold 2 million, got it.
I believe the estimated numbers are closer to 3.7m but I don't have a reliable source on this. I think some people on /v/ ran some total revenue numbers and did some math to derive that number.
Ah, so they sold a few million units.
Are you telling me they sold multiple millions of the Steam Deck??????
Yes, that's what they said.
Multiple: consisting of, including, or involving more than one.
Yes, and that is what gave me pause, it seemed too generic to be a coincidence, meaning that I read it as they only had sold 2 millions.
I had it pegged a little lower than what they got. I figured just upwards of three million.
Two is too small, and saying 'multiple' seems like it's just sensational BS. Anything 5 and over, and they'd want to more clearly specify just how many millions they had sold. That leaves 3 and 4, but four would probably get a 'nearly five million'. That leaves three as the most likely, with four a small possibility. I figured 3.2-3.3 mil.
And yet it’s still not available natively in my country
Year of the Linux desktop, finally?
I wish they sold it in my country
Yeah, 2 years or so later there's still no official way to buy it.
Australia, when?
Multiple millions, aka millions?
If we're being extra pedantic I'd say it was at least 4 million.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Valve has sold “multiple millions” of its Steam Deck handheld gaming PCs, Valve designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais tell The Verge.
Given that it just announced a new revision with an OLED screen, the company is probably set to sell a lot more.
The Steam Deck has been a hit for Valve right from its launch; when the device first went up for preorders in July 2021 (has it really been that long?
), the demand created some major issues for Valve’s Steam store.
And the handheld gaming PC is often at or near the top of Steam’s top-selling chart — even just two months after the device’s official February 2022 launch, it was clear that the Steam Deck was not a flop.
The company apparently even made a cake to celebrate selling 1 million units.
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The cake was a lie.
Now valve needs to sell a kernel level anti cheat that works on steam deck so we can play them games
That's very much against the philosophy of Linux. At best you'd divide Linux gaming into trusted (known operating system, hypervisor, no root access), and untrusted systems.
It's essentially what Google are trying to do with attestation, Web Environment Integrity, etc.
Edit: there's no way to stop cheaters without also stopping software freedom in general. The best path forward might be to focus on building communities of people who enjoy playing games together.
Or here's a revolutionary thought: let people voluntarily (and reversably) opt-in to kernel-level anti-cheats.
Part of freedom is the freedom to choose.
Nobody should be letting a closed source black box run on their kernel, especially not from Epic Games (a CCP company).
That’s because it’s a fucking amazing device all around
Can it hook up to the tv? I want one but it's the price of a ps5 where I live so it's one or the other
Yes you can and it’s how I use it half the time. Keep in mind that the system is tuned to 720p/800p so you can either have the TV resolution and take a big performance hit or have it at the native resolution.
Definitely reduces performance, but there are some AAA games I can play at 1080/60fps with no issues.
It is notably still faster than a docked switch
Turning on FSR helps this a lot though. I frequently game on my 4K TV with FAR and it looks pretty damned good.
You should factor the cost of the games into it too, especially if you have an existing Steam library and aren't exclusively playing AAA games.
If not, it's a bit harder to recommend for exclusive TV use at that price.
My wife and kid like to game handheld, but I myself prefer to sit down on the couch and play on a controller
It's my only gaming system right now, although notably I'm not one of those people who thinks that anything under 4k @ 60fps is literally unplayable since I switched over from an old potato PS4 that I gave to a friend when I got the Deck, and I play on a pretty shit 720p TV too. I often play with it plugged into the TV, and use an old PS4 controller to play, and I've been prefectly happy. The quality's about the same I got on the PS4, but the library's sooo much bigger, and since it's a mobile device I can play in bed too if I feel like it.
I really like that I can play all my steam games on it. I don't have a gaming PC, but I can run anything from around the ps3 era like sleeping dogs which runs well on mine, and even newer non heavy duty games. So I do have a good 20 games I've bought over time on my library
Yeah the heavier duty stuff I play are eg. RDR2, Cyberpunk and Starfield (yeah yeah I know, I'm stupid, ugly, bad and wrong). RDR2 and Cyberpunk run just fine "out of the box" and look like the PS4 version did or even a bit better (although like I said I have a 🥔 TV), but admittedly Starfield can occasionally be an exercise in masochism. Works better than you'd expect though especially if you sacrifice more of the graphics, but it requires a bunch of fiddling with INI files because of course it does. Hilariously it looks worse than eg. RDR2 or Cyberpunk despite especially RDR2 being like 6 years old, again because of course it does.
Fantastic fucking system, really couldn't be more pleased.
You can! And you can even use PS5 (or any other bluetooth-capable) controllers with it.
We had a family night in the living room with mine, I used an xbox one X controller, wife used a dualshock 4, and kiddo used a Wii U controller (I was emulating a switch game, so the Wii U controller helped the little one a lot with the button mappings being correct on the faces).
I recommend starting with a cheap dock like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Hiearcool-Adapter-Multport-Compatible-Devices-Midnight/dp/B09YLD1Q4L
and then upgrading to a Jsaux dock or the official dock later.
Agree with other commenter. If you're mobile or plan to move it at all, deck hands down. If it's going to sit there all the time, then probably ps5
Totally. I bought a usbc to hdmi so I could play jackbox party games when I traveled to friends/family.
It’s a laptop, you can hook it up to anything if you wanted
Buy a ps5 controller to go with it so motion sensing is there (it's awesome to use in shooter games like borderlands and tomb raider).
If you don't already have a bunch of computer games and you know you'll only be playing it on the TV (which would be silly, really) I'd probably say just get a ps5, though. That or someone's used gaming computer for $500 and just hook that to the TV. If you wouldn't use it outside your living room there are better options.
And it’s gotten to a point where it’s being used as a utility computer in places, if I recall. That could’ve potentially sent sales snowballing away from typical console sale figures.
It’s a Linux machine with good cpu, 16gb of ram, KDE and you can install stuff with flatpak AND distrobox. If you have a dock, there really is no reason not to use as a normal computer.
They use it in Ukraine to control machine gun turrets!
They are also used to control Star Wars robots in Disney world.
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Ever since it was widely available, I see one on every flight I take. It's not surprising it's sold well.
I've never seen one on flights, but mine is always out
You're the one they see every flight. Keep up the good work
Sponsored by valve... I just fly all day long playing streak deck, part of their Deck Flyers influencer program
I was going to say the same thing, but then I spent my last few flights staring at elden ring. Who knows what was going on around me.
Never seen one Steam Deck in the public yet and I don't know any friends who bought one. I'm an europoor tho.
Valve has an incredible product on their hands, with the OLED model surely they will sell millions more. In a few years when a steam deck 2 comes out it will be an instant purchase for me. Valve hit a new stride with the deck.
Out of interest, do you own a steam deck already?
And if not, why are you so confident you'll buy the theoretical future "steam deck 2" instead of buying this current OLED gen?
I currently own a steam deck. I got it in the first batch of deliveries. As far as a tech product goes, I have never consistently used a tech product for this long outside of my desktop. I almost always find myself migrating back to my desktop for everything, except with the steam deck. I actually find myself doing things on my deck instead of my desktop.
When version 2 comes out (or if I can get a sweet deal on the OLED down the road) I will for sure be upgrading without hesitation.
I have a decent but aging gaming PC, but that desk doubles as my office now, so I don't always feel like doubling down my time in there after work.
Now I can game wherever.
Not only is the SteamDeck nice, SteamInput is amazing, no more unchangeable bindings.
Text heavy games aren't always the best at that resolution, but otherwise I'd say I've gamed more on it then on my 3080.
The opening scene of Subnautica 2 was a nice experience to have on a flight.
I'm in a similar situation. Streaming fron the PC to the deck is fantastic. Games the Deck struggles with are suddenly playable. Intense games that would normally ramp up the fan and only get a couple of hours of battery are suddenly easy for the Deck to handle. I highly recommend it.
I've wondered if it would be worth getting a dock to hook it up to my second monitor in desktop mode for just web browsing and watching videos.
I love love love my steamdeck! It re-invigorated my gaming! Currently loving Brotato.
I thought dynasty warriors would surely kill the battery, holy shit it's draining it as slow as some of my puzzle/sudoku games do! I've got 5 hours of ps3/PS4 (dare I say poorly ported?) goodness at my finger tips! Now if only I had time, energy, and no other obligations to play 10%as much as I wanted to
Could be the upside of poor multi-core optimisation.
I got mine like a month or two ago and it’s by far my favorite device. I’ll keep buying steam decks for as long as they make them.
They make alot of em, you are falling behind!
I’m not a big online multiplayer person, which I’ve been told makes me the model audience for it. My impressions have been nothing but positive for the six months I’ve owned mine. I haven’t had any issues with games either, which compared to the last Linux laptop I used is just wow. I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat 11 this week and the graphics it call pull off are impressive given its footprint. If a 2 comes out I’m definitely getting it day one.
I can’t believe how long the battery life is when playing Wii games on dolphin.
Like how can I play for hours and still have so much space left over?
Haha right? I’ve got an embarrassing amount of hours in animal crossing and Kirby Air Ride and neither makes the fan even turn on outside of the initial shader compilation.
So they just sold 2 million, got it.
I believe the estimated numbers are closer to 3.7m but I don't have a reliable source on this. I think some people on /v/ ran some total revenue numbers and did some math to derive that number.
Ah, so they sold a few million units.
Are you telling me they sold multiple millions of the Steam Deck??????
Yes, that's what they said.
Multiple: consisting of, including, or involving more than one.
Yes, and that is what gave me pause, it seemed too generic to be a coincidence, meaning that I read it as they only had sold 2 millions.
I had it pegged a little lower than what they got. I figured just upwards of three million.
Two is too small, and saying 'multiple' seems like it's just sensational BS. Anything 5 and over, and they'd want to more clearly specify just how many millions they had sold. That leaves 3 and 4, but four would probably get a 'nearly five million'. That leaves three as the most likely, with four a small possibility. I figured 3.2-3.3 mil.
And yet it’s still not available natively in my country
Year of the Linux desktop, finally?
I wish they sold it in my country
Yeah, 2 years or so later there's still no official way to buy it.
Australia, when?
Multiple millions, aka millions?
If we're being extra pedantic I'd say it was at least 4 million.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Valve has sold “multiple millions” of its Steam Deck handheld gaming PCs, Valve designers Lawrence Yang and Pierre-Loup Griffais tell The Verge.
Given that it just announced a new revision with an OLED screen, the company is probably set to sell a lot more.
The Steam Deck has been a hit for Valve right from its launch; when the device first went up for preorders in July 2021 (has it really been that long?
), the demand created some major issues for Valve’s Steam store.
And the handheld gaming PC is often at or near the top of Steam’s top-selling chart — even just two months after the device’s official February 2022 launch, it was clear that the Steam Deck was not a flop.
The company apparently even made a cake to celebrate selling 1 million units.
The original article contains 182 words, the summary contains 137 words. Saved 25%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Uh actually no, bad bot.
The cake was a lie.
Now valve needs to sell a kernel level anti cheat that works on steam deck so we can play them games
That's very much against the philosophy of Linux. At best you'd divide Linux gaming into trusted (known operating system, hypervisor, no root access), and untrusted systems.
It's essentially what Google are trying to do with attestation, Web Environment Integrity, etc.
Edit: there's no way to stop cheaters without also stopping software freedom in general. The best path forward might be to focus on building communities of people who enjoy playing games together.
Or here's a revolutionary thought: let people voluntarily (and reversably) opt-in to kernel-level anti-cheats.
Part of freedom is the freedom to choose.
Nobody should be letting a closed source black box run on their kernel, especially not from Epic Games (a CCP company).
We use Linux to get rid of malware and you want to reimplement it, use Windows if you don't mind
We can talk about it if it's open-source and respects user privacy.
I think it would be easier for them to put Windows preinstalled