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I'm concerned about how the experience of PC games on a handheld will be. Sure, a lot of developers might tweak the UI scaling. But games will still have fundamentals that were never intended for a small screen.
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doingitwrong posted:My growing belief is that the target market for the Steam Deck is people who like every part of the gaming hobby except actually playing games.
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ChocNitty posted:I'm concerned about how the experience of PC games on a handheld will be. Sure, a lot of developers might tweak the UI scaling. I haven’t run into too many issues tbh.
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ChocNitty posted:I'm concerned about how the experience of PC games on a handheld will be. Sure, a lot of developers might tweak the UI scaling. Handheld PCs have been around for at least a decade op
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Barreft posted:Here we go finally. I can't play the Switch without the Hori Pad so this is great for me. Perfect size. Anyone who hasn't used a Hori pad should consider it. It makes the switch way more comfortable.
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I have the hori pads and they make the switch feel comically stupid. Maybe it’s because they don’t have rumble and therefore no weight so it feels cheaper. Much better ergo though!
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Nuts and Gum posted:IMaybe it’s because they don’t have rumble and therefore no weight so it feels cheaper. I think it’s this for me too. It just doesn’t feel as solid. The pads are great just not for me.
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doingitwrong posted:My growing belief is that the target market for the Steam Deck is people who like every part of the gaming hobby except actually playing games. Hell yeah. And ditto with hacking instead of gaming. You should see how many Raspberry Pis that do awesome things that I don't remember exist once I've got them fully functional and stable. Sometimes they bring down my internet.
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I think any old Wario Ware has every fundamental
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I'm going to play Hot wheels Unleashed on the Steam Deck! Don't try to stop me, your efforts will be in vain!
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Barreft posted:Here we go finally. I can't play the Switch without the Hori Pad so this is great for me. Here is a more useful size reference: https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/1490700527440740355
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I can't possibly estimate the size until he adds a Taiko no Tatsujin contorller
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Reviews are coming: https://youtu.be/_UB9XoPlJ0U https://youtu.be/HjZ4POvk14c
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Linus has an unboxing video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UB9XoPlJ0U efb
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Gamers Nexus has theirs up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQH__XVa64 EDIT: Yo, this is super in-depth in hardware stuff. Thermals, noise testing, battery life, performance (in Valve's approved games prior to the final embargo) and input latency. Veotax fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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sigher posted:Linus has an unboxing video out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UB9XoPlJ0U
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The 7th Guest posted:dude literally put his aya neo in his pocket at the mall, wtf, with half of it just sticking out Gamers were a mistake
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Everything so far looks extremely promising. I thought the press embargo wasn't lifted until launch?
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Rinkles posted:Any gaming benchmarks? Two posts above you he does forza benchmarks. Also small snippets of control and street fighter in the same video. edit: I guess benchmark isn't the best term since it is fps capped. But in control it is 1.7x better than the gdp win I guess? Seems good, 71fps in control, even if its just the intro building where it will defnitely be higher, feels great to me. Kwolok fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Gaming Nexu’s video has tags at each segement of it so you can look and find the benchmarks (valve limited benchmarks to the 5 pre-loaded games). GN shows all 5.
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Full embargo isn't lifted, they can't talk about the software side at all besides the specific 5 games Valve said here.
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Kwolok posted:Everything so far looks extremely promising. There are two embargoes, apparently. Today was the hardware embargo and the final embargo is later this month just before launch. Apparently the software is coming in hot and still a bit rough, Valve's only allowing press to talk about like five games and they can't show the Deck's interface.
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Kwolok posted:Two posts above you he does forza benchmarks. Also small snippets of control and street fighter in the same video. GN had it slightly above 30 (which isn't great) 
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At medium, low might hit 60 more frequently. Those are good numbers for a 30fps cap though, the 0.1% lows don't even drop below 30.
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Yeah a lot of it depends on settings I'm sure. Control is a cool game and visually a feast, not sure if it is a good steam deck kinda game anyhow. You really should view it in a cinematic setting, and less on a tiny screen IMO. That being said I suspect control and a handful of other games will be difficult to run on the deck, its just not that powerful. 30 fps for it is surprising in and of itself.Veotax posted:There are two embargoes, apparently. Today was the hardware embargo and the final embargo is later this month just before launch. Do you have a source on the "still a bit rough"?
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Kwolok posted:Do you have a source on the "still a bit rough"? It's Valve. It'll probably be a bit rough for like 6 months to a year after launch. Kwolok posted:Yeah a lot of it depends on settings I'm sure. Control is a cool game and visually a feast, not sure if it is a good steam deck kinda game anyhow. You really should view it in a cinematic setting, and less on a tiny screen IMO. That being said I suspect control and a handful of other games will be difficult to run on the deck, its just not that powerful. 30 fps for it is surprising in and of itself. SCheeseman fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Kwolok posted:Yeah a lot of it depends on settings I'm sure. Control is a cool game and visually a feast, not sure if it is a good steam deck kinda game anyhow. You really should view it in a cinematic setting, and less on a tiny screen IMO I played through the whole thing on my phone over geforce now
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Kwolok posted:Do you have a source on the "still a bit rough"? The videos that have been posted. The Gamers Nexus video says that the software is coming in hot and they understand why Valve doesn't want it shown off yet. Apparently DMC5 got stuck in a loading loop during their audio testing. They're not saying that it's going to be a mess at launch, just that Valve has been pushing updates daily fixing stuff.
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control runs at like 20fps tops on the base Xbox one and ps4 on low, it is not a well optimized game at all
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Veotax posted:The videos that have been posted. The Gamers Nexus video says that the software is coming in hot and they understand why Valve doesn't want it shown off yet. Apparently DMC5 got stuck in a loading loop during their audio testing. Makes sense. Hopefully they actually give steamOS more love than they have given big picture mode (I know they are similar or maybe even branches). I love big picture mode for my computer hooked up to my tv, but it really is the red-headed step child of valve's development attention. Though if my gut says anything its that the steam deck is gonna sell like hot cakes so hopefully they have more of a stake in steam os.
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Veotax posted:The videos that have been posted. The Gamers Nexus video says that the software is coming in hot and they understand why Valve doesn't want it shown off yet. Apparently DMC5 got stuck in a loading loop during their audio testing. LTT also showed Forza having some kind of timing or frame pacing bug that makes the animations judder, despite that being one of the games Valve specifically allowed
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You're probably joking, but they were only allowed to show like 3 games. You can bet someone is going to show all the emulation when the embargo is up for everything.
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all the videos actually ran the games through a switch emulator
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MarcusSA posted:Which one of these videos tested switch emulation performance.
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flavor.flv posted:I played through the whole thing on my phone over geforce now https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
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repiv posted:LTT also showed Forza having some kind of timing or frame pacing bug that makes the animations judder, despite that being one of the games Valve specifically allowed Apparently that's a bug that can also happen on Windows, so it's not Steam Deck/Proton specific.
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