You had me at Deck Building. Deck building all by itself, might be boring. But combining it with things, with animations and fight screens, just never gets old for me. Its like the difference between any average match 3 game, or the mighty Puzzle Quest.
Depend how you see it. If for you it's a "Switch PC" , then it is hella expensive unless you take the base model, and you don't have much guarentee that it will be a good experience (as in, your daily game will run smoothly AND offer a good experience on a "small" screen with that layout button) If you take it on a more geeky/nerdy point of view, then you can install pretty much any OS on it, you'll probably have the ability to install other E-Shop. Considering what some people managed to make on the Switch, I think we can see wonderfull thing on this device. With some tweeking you might be able to set up a pirated version of the Switch, a pirated version of the Wii or other old console (DS, Arcade emulator...). I can't garantee the performence since I'm not versed enought into this, but based on what I've read (and what I saw in the modding comunity) and based on the fact Valve said you can install any OS you want , I can clearly see this becoming an Handled retro gaming device you can transport anywhere. What I wonder now is if you can add storage through microSD card. If so, and if you can "boot" on it, maybe you can actually have an all-in-one device, like having a bunch of microSD card with Linux, Steam OS, Windows etc... where you can switch between "on the go" depending which emulator or game you want to play. Might be actually interesting for anyone that move around a bit. The other thing I wonder is that if the button are configurable or not, so you can use the trackpads for different purpose and all. TL;DR: If you see this as a Swich Pro, it's expensive If you see this as a potential "all in one mini handled pc" device, then it's actually very interesting and could be awsome to see what the modding comunity will do with it if valve keep to their world of beeing open (install any OS you want) and if there is nothing/not much propriotary part.
someone made a list of previous valve products that received poor customer service support, a list of failure products which includes steam controller. If it's gonna be more expensive than a switch, then it better be running better witcher 3, ark or other switch ported games that got severe low fps which affected gameplay enjoyment.
For 400 to 600-ish $(its kinda affordable for ppl that can't pay 800 to 1500$ especially with the chip shortage) I mean it can run Control and Star Wars at 720p I would say its ok, its like a Nintendo switch but with Linux or Windows but still, I can't judge it until it comes out it would be a lot better if the dock was included in the box, and that you don't have to buy it separately
I guess so, now that GPU prices are dropping back to MSRP and for that price, you can buy a 3070, a lot better than Zen 2 CPU with 8 RDNA I think its appeal is that it's more portable than a gaming laptop and cheaper kinda (low-end gaming laptop) or just use it as an emulator, it does feel like a premium price, but if Valve slashed the price of the base one(64GB eMMC) and it cost like 200-ish instead of 400, would you buy one?
Deck building all by itself, might be boring.
But combining it with things,
with animations and fight screens,
just never gets old for me.
Its like the difference between any average match 3 game,
or the mighty Puzzle Quest.
https://youtu.be/DB7rcr7DJjY
What your think?
If for you it's a "Switch PC" , then it is hella expensive unless you take the base model, and you don't have much guarentee that it will be a good experience (as in, your daily game will run smoothly AND offer a good experience on a "small" screen with that layout button)
If you take it on a more geeky/nerdy point of view, then you can install pretty much any OS on it, you'll probably have the ability to install other E-Shop. Considering what some people managed to make on the Switch, I think we can see wonderfull thing on this device. With some tweeking you might be able to set up a pirated version of the Switch, a pirated version of the Wii or other old console (DS, Arcade emulator...). I can't garantee the performence since I'm not versed enought into this, but based on what I've read (and what I saw in the modding comunity) and based on the fact Valve said you can install any OS you want , I can clearly see this becoming an Handled retro gaming device you can transport anywhere.
What I wonder now is if you can add storage through microSD card. If so, and if you can "boot" on it, maybe you can actually have an all-in-one device, like having a bunch of microSD card with Linux, Steam OS, Windows etc... where you can switch between "on the go" depending which emulator or game you want to play. Might be actually interesting for anyone that move around a bit.
The other thing I wonder is that if the button are configurable or not, so you can use the trackpads for different purpose and all.
TL;DR:
If you see this as a Swich Pro, it's expensive
If you see this as a potential "all in one mini handled pc" device, then it's actually very interesting and could be awsome to see what the modding comunity will do with it if valve keep to their world of beeing open (install any OS you want) and if there is nothing/not much propriotary part.
I would say its ok, its like a Nintendo switch but with Linux or Windows
but still, I can't judge it until it comes out
it would be a lot better if the dock was included in the box, and that you don't have to buy it separately
I think its appeal is that it's more portable than a gaming laptop and cheaper kinda (low-end gaming laptop) or just use it as an emulator, it does feel like a premium price, but if Valve slashed the price of the base one(64GB eMMC) and it cost like 200-ish instead of 400, would you buy one?
i dont get so comfortable playing on very small screens
just watching the trailer is more than enough to realize how it is