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My steam machine arrived! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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I got a place on the 512GB with Controller list, and got an email a few days after they started. I ordered it on Friday the 3rd and got it today on Thursday the 9th. The tracking codes were all over the place and gave different estimates depending which branch of each company I used. Steam claimed it was shipped when the courier said they hadn't got it so I was worried for a few days. But this morning Royal Mail (UK customer) sent me an email saying it would arrive today, while GLS said it would arrive tomorrow.

Safe to say I'm happy to have it now and be playing games!

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[–] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

so jealous. i got mine, but wasn't able to nab a controller... so i've been just complaining about all the minor issues i'm rediscovering with all my old controllers, lol. (not steam issues, just "these face buttons are too squishy", "i forgot this one had stick drift", etc, i've been pure steam-deck for a while...). Good news is i can connect just about anything to it, so that's nice. but a steam controller will be even better! Eventually!

[–] Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Put it in your ass!

Show us what you're really about...

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

One (wo)man one machine.

[–] Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I get this reference, having seen the source material a thousand time, voluntarily and with raging erection

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

A gentle(wo)man of culture I see!

[–] Reborn_Mormon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I are a cyborg, thank you. My pronouns are 0/1/null and I am grateful to be both a porn star and a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints. You should come to one of our churches this weekend, especially if you are trans or a furry. Especially if you are a furry. I'm doing science for God.

[–] mig@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I appreciate the inclusivity.

[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on the waiting list, and boy is it annoying to see them being listed on ebay

[–] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I believe you can email steam about it.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

To what end?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Steam's emailbox I presume.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 228 points 11 hours ago

spoiler

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[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Those make taking down wallpaper way easier. Grats!

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Sigh.

I got my invite to purchase email midweek. And I didn’t read the fine print like a chump… I selected every model, and the model they offered me was of course, the priciest.

So I have to let it pass me by because I thought I’d get the option for the cheaper one.

Enjoy. I’ll get the next steam train. Your model.

Maybe RAM will be cheaper by then.

😭

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 21 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Tell me what’s the first game you’re going to play! :)

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3, as it crashes my desktop so I've not been able to play it for the last year or two.

[–] Doug@piefed.social 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I’ve been a patient gamer on that front, waiting for it to dip below 40% discount.

…any day now.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

I'm waiting for the gog $4.99 deal in 15 years.

[–] nullify3112@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

My threshold is $10. Not $10 discount. $10 or less total price w/o tax. I’m gonna wait a long time.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I was expecting a picture of a humidifier.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

I looked at the picture for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out what kind of steam generating device it was before realizing it wasn't a shitpost.

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[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Congratulations! Even though they are overpriced, they are the right size and wife approved aesthetically. They are also more functional than a console. I still want one. But I got waitlisted hardcore. I hope you enjoy yours. Do write up your first impressions and a detailed review after you’ve had some runtime with it. It’ll help us less fortunate souls decide to wait out the waitlist, or go build something on our own cheaper but less slick looking :)

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 27 points 10 hours ago (27 children)

I got mine yesterday. Copying my thoughts from a comment in another thread:

Don't mind my essay here. TLDR: I love this thing.

I got mine yesterday. It's the 512GB with no controller since I already got the controller separately and the 2TB version felt like an especially bad deal.

I was initially on the fence about the price and reserved just to get into the queue to make the actual buy decision later. I was expecting more people to have thoughts on it out before my spot in the queue came up, but I ended up getting my purchase email very quickly on 6/30. I let the email sit for a day but ended up deciding to pull the trigger for a few reasons:

One, I've owned every first-party Valve device so far, and all of them have been more than the sum of their parts. Two, I wanted a HTPC, travel, and LAN party PC that's a bit less restraining than a laptop. Three, being a bit of a performance snob has been distracting me away from actually gaming and I wanted to get back into the no nonsense side of PC gaming again. And four, I don't mind spending a little extra money advancing Linux, repairable hardware, etc.

I feel like I have to acknowledge reviews from the PC space have been largely negative, but they seem to be undervaluing a lot: the form factor (a 6" cube is still tiny compared to almost all other SFF builds), performance per volume (almost the entire cube is a heat sink), and the benefits of more standard performance targets we've already seen with the Deck.

As for first impressions, the device is packaged well, and unboxing was very satisfying. I did have some trouble getting my controller paired since it was already paired to my existing desktop PC and plugging it in directly wasn't enough to get around that like I expected, but looking up how to pair it to multiple PCs got me past that.

I spent a few hours testing a mix of light to demanding games, and I'm more than happy with what it can do. I haven't tried gaming beyond 1080p yet, but I'm going to be very selective about when and how I do that. 512GB is proving to be plenty of space for what I'm playing at any one time, and I think that would still be true if I didn't have other devices acting as additional storage.

I feel like all my expectations above have been validated, and now I'm really looking forward to getting the Frame. I want to make a travel backpack or suitcase with foam cutouts for the whole set.

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[–] mereo@piefed.ca 98 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

I will not call it overpriced because the current PC market is crazy because of AI. Even Valve isn't happy with the price.

Overpriced would mean that Valve would be making a significant profit. They will not.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago

Something can be overpriced and the company can still be losing money on it. How much profit the company making it makes is entirely irrelevant to the usability for the end consumer.

If they made a bunch of poor choices that made the cost of the product go up that doesn’t change the fact that I could’ve gotten more for my money from a better designed product. Like they could make the entire chassis a solid copper cube and that could cost say $1000 alone. And it could cool like shit. If they did then this $2k copper steam machine would be extremely overpriced.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 52 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren't raking billions off of this. I'm fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.

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