New year. Reflection time.
In the past half year (6 months) how much have you played with your Steamdeck?
You can compare it to your main PC/Mac or against your deck playtime of the first part of the year. Just comparison more or less. I want discussion going on.
I’m interested because I found myself to be a tiny bit deck fatigued and only in December have fun with Brotato. Otherwise I’m like 100h initial climax compared to 30h current one.
I’m bedridden, so it’s my primary gaming device. But I got a new table for my laptop so that has taken up video playing duties which previously were done by the Deck.
Just picked up a used 64gb version a few weeks ago for just over $300. My expectations were blown away. I’ve been a PlayStation and Nintendo guy since the mid 2000’s, but now my plan is to fully transition to the PC gaming ecosystem this year.
I have a PS5 and Nintendo Switch currently and while I like both, my biggest gripe with them is that if I buy a game on one, I can’t continue it on the other. Typically this leads to me having to buy games twice in some instances if I want to play on the TV and in handheld mode. Sure the Switch can dock to the TV, but the power is not enough for the bigger games. I also hate paying for online and backwards compatibility is lacking on both.
The deck shows me the possibilities of a PC future though. Any games I buy on Steam for the deck I will be able to play at higher graphics on a proper PC setup for no extra charge. I also love emulating all my favorite games from the PS2 and GameCube era. The deck shows what true backwards compatibility should be like. PS3 emulation has been limited, but you can buy many of the PS3 games on Steam for cheap anyway, so hasn’t been a big issue.
My goal this year is to build a mid PC setup that can replace my PS5 for TV gaming. Very excited about the future of Steam and PC and now I’m looking to upgrade the storage on the deck to 1tb this weekend.
every single day for me. it’s my home device. I have other consoles, I just like this one.
it does everything I need so far.
I use mine on the train to and from school, and on some flights, but was nowhere near my pc playtime according to the steam replay 2023. I hit about 150 hours per two weeks frequently there, and the steam deck is more like 18 hours.
I’ve actually been using it as my primary pc while overseas in china, too.
I’ve been playing it a lot more since I got the OLED. It turns out that I disliked the LCD on the original Deck more than I realized. And not just the difference from OLED itself, but the screen size and 90hz refresh also. Those chunky bezels really did suck, and now the screen feels more like it “fits” the device size.
The larger battery capacity has sure helped too.
