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.
So they just sold 2 million, got it.
I love love love my steamdeck! It re-invigorated my gaming! Currently loving Brotato.
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.
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.
I wish they sold it in my country
Yeah, 2 years or so later there’s still no official way to buy it.
Year of the Linux desktop, finally?
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.
Australia, when?
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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