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Playing on a laptops track pad is a pain in the ass. If you are using a mouse then that's even more space being taken up and doesn't let you use it when at places like a bus, a flight, on the toilet, etc. Also the basic Steam Deck is $400, finding a decent gaming laptop for $400 that can run games as well as a Steam Deck does is going to be difficult purely from where the budget went in making a laptop meant to be general purpose vs a gaming device

wrong

It can play massive open world games just fine, Cyberpunk,Witcher, Skyrim, Fallout, etc all play just fine on it.

The Steam Deck is actually what got me to finally sit down and play through Cyberpunk

Thanks, now I have to buy my girlfriend a Steamdeck.

Plays max settings on Fallout 76 or Fallout 4 phenomenally.

You both overestimate how powerful a PS4 was and underestimate modern tablets.

That website name...

Damn PS5 and Series X are like “sorry mate, 30 fps on this one” so yeah the Steam deck is gonna have a hard time with Plague Tale.

If only iOS would open up to more games. I’d love fallout or Skyrim on my phone. Best I have so far is KOTOR

I always thought it was for more platformer and Nintendo-like games, not some massive open world game or something along those lines

So by that measure, anything is the undisputed price and performance leader...which means the comment I responded to was meaningless. So why respond to my comment?

I think the apocalypse will have come by then and we’ll be “playing” Fallout instead

Sure

It’s because they act like the Steam Deck is a console and should play every game, it’s not. It’s a low powered portable pc and thus has limits and not going to be compatible with every game.

So, if some people really can't enjoy gaming without simulated 3D, would that mean the 3DS is the undisputed leader in price and performance? Because some people need simulated 3D? Do you think that's relevant?

Note that the comment I responded to didn't say "for playing in bed".

Because the steam deck fills a pc gaming void for some people. So at its price, it’s uncontested and unrivaled for me.

You are the one who began asking me why I don’t just use the seconds of time it takes to go from laptop to bed.

Great!

How does this relate to the comment I was responding to regarding price and performance?

Perhaps you are able to adjust your life based on efficiency by the minutes and be able to actually enjoy yourself. I play the steam deck in bed as it helps me relax and get my mind off work//issues of the day. I don’t have a problem sleeping.

I am saying that the steam deck allows me to compartmentalize a portion of time enjoyment that I otherwise wouldn’t have. Not that I couldn’t forcefully carve time out of my schedule to fit in video games.

I mentioned that if I was on a computer at a desk, I’d end up working. And I’m sure that doesn’t make sense to you. That’s simply how I am, and not how you are.

Wow, a handheld device is reaching its limit with games meant for GPU's bigger than the entire handheld? I'm shocked.

It is, depending on the features the developer uses.

Given some system requirements of upcoming games it will be interesting to see how tweakable the games will be if certain features are utilized and integral to the look of the games.

But on paper UE5 will run on the Switch so some games will certainly be more than fine on Deck.

UE5 is incredibly scalable, it will be fine.

My Sega Genesis probably couldn’t play it

Skyrim already runs fine on low end arm devices (Nintendo switch).

The switch at this point is basically the same as an entry level cell phone.

Man I have a 3060ti and I'm still having trouble running aaa titles :c

Then again I also have a fairly old CPU that Is prolly throttling my gpu.