Steam Hardware

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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. (i.redd.it)

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[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm legitimately worried about next gen, since Sony is doing the same thing with their pricing as GPU manufacturers.

That thing being, the increase in price is >/= the actual increase in performance. The PS5 Pro is a 75% price increase over the similarly disc-driveless $399 PS5 (hardware which is almost a half-decade old now).

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The PS5 Pro pricing is testing the waters for PS6 pricing. If they can't sell well, they can easily drop prices (the PS5 Pro barely costs more than the PS5 to produce). They're just gathering data on what people will accept.

Doing that with the PS6 is too risky. Sony botched the launch of the PS3 and it backfired on them hard letting MS get a foothold with the 360. MS then did the same with the XBone launch and the PS4 ran away with it.

If people signal to Sony now that the PS5 Pro is way too much (it's £700/$913 here ffs), then the PS6 will be cheaper. Don't accept their greed.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

The difference is that Steam Deck is actually cheap compared to what the competition does. It's also the first generation of Steam Deck and the upgrade with an OLED (and lot of other stuff too) is actually substantial. And there are multiple versions of the Deck available to choose less drive space. Imagine this was an option on PS5 Professional too. Contrary, the PS5 Professional is the most expensive console compared to its competition. It's so expensive, that it set a new bar.

That's the opposite of what Steam Deck does. Steam Deck is the only current generation game console that gets cheaper over time. Also one is a handheld format, which is hard to make cheap, especially because its compatible to PC hardware (and software).

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A laptop because I have no where to go.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Can you use a deck on an external monitor?

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[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yeah, but can any of those play the saves I already have on my computer??

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Um... Yeah? You about Steam Cloud, right?

Besides that, if it's a none-Steam game you could just... Transfer the same file to the Deck. Did with a couple of games through Google Drive.

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