I got a OLED Steam Deck last year when they were still cheapish. I love it, but now that the prices have gone up I’m thinking “damn I could kinda use that extra money, I could get more than I paid for it if I sold now.”
On the other hand I’d kind of feel like a dirty scalper? You know, taking advantage of a price increase feels like I’d be ripping people off?
I like it and use it a fair amount, but it’s not like it’s much better than my laptop for games outside of having a way better screen (my laptop is not oled in the slightest but I could always buy a monitor if I really want pretty colours).
I’m not sure. Also like, I don’t feel like I should have something that is essentially an expensive treat when the world is like gestures around at everything plus I’m poor and probably should be saving more.
Buuuuut then there is also the thing of AI bubble making anything computer related super expensive for the foreseeable future so maybe I should hold on to it?
I wonder if we’ll be getting 3rd party companies making cheaper steam based hendhelds in the future. But with RAM and stuff being the way it is right now, who knows.
software moreso. With the release of the steam frame (the vr headset) valve will be using an ARM version of proton. Android devices use ARM architecture so it probably won’t be long until we get steam os CFW for various android handhelds and probably some phones.
You can already play PC games on android through things like gamehub and winulator but the optimization is middling. On my retroid flip 2 I can play most 2/2.5D games with minimal issues and I’ve gotten games like Fallout 3 and Dark Souls 2 to run but I wouldn’t call them playable. In fact, I’ve found that the same games that aren’t playable through windows emulation are incredibly playable through switch emulation so I would definitely lean towards calling it a software issue.
Hopefully proton for ARM will be a similar jump in performance as proton already was for linux gaming compared to things like wine.