Might as well get a laptop???

Absurdly massive and yet no space for some touchpads? 🤡

i agree. the reason steam deck and other handhelds work well is because of the smaller screen/resolution.

makes it light and games run ok due to the smaller resolution. a chonker like this completely defeats the purpose of a handheld imo.

Honestly the deck is already pushing how big a handheld can be and still be portable/handheld. I don't think I would want anything larger

I find it absolutely hilarious that every single company has a "Steam Deck killer" yet not a single one of them have any idea what made the Steam Deck popular, all they understand is PC handheld with controller (Lenovo is starting to catch on tho).

A pound heavier than a steam deck doesn't sound like a lot, but it is in practice.

Also... Windows? Well it's not good for handheld gaming right out of the gate.

Hot take, but I see it having a market for people who just want to play on a tablet dedicated to gaming without futzing with peripherals. During break I stole my daughter's tablet to play Gameboy games and it was possibly better than my deck (lighter weight, bigger screen, and shaders that give it a pixel grid w/ a GBC border frame).

This big thing is still not for me, though, as I'd prefer the versatility of going portrait mode because I would likely use it as a 3DS emulator depending on how good the touch is. DS screens fit quite comfortably on tablets in portrait mode. (Assuming I even have the disposable income, which I do not).

My hands are tired just looking at it

My issue is power consumption. Where I live, I rely on solar panels and batteries, and the steam deck is less power hungry than a laptop with graphics card.

Yes, but how can you train your beautiful gamer biceps then? You can have all that beautiful extra train and stay in shape while playing your favorite games. A double win!

I don't think 11 inch is absurdely big. That's the screen size of the current iPad air.

Smart move. People keep buying ridiculously oversized phones. Smaller ones somehow do not sell. So why not apply the same concept to tablets

I agree. So big screen and controllers that Nintendo Switch looks like a lilliputian. Not so portable.

Nah the steam decks are laptops but cheaper

Just get a little usbc > usbc/hdmi/usb and you can plug in a keyboard and mosue and then you have a gaming linux laptop for like $350

Show me another capable gaming laptop you can get for $350

Give it one of those detachable cardboard keyboards and it it would be an overgrown Surface competitor.

A laptop does not support attached controllers for hand-holding. Seems pretty obvious.

I cannot hold my hands in the air indefinitely. Even completely empty my arms will get tired after a few short minutes, much less several hours. My Steam Deck gets held on my lap or on a table or something like that.

OneXPlayer has something similar that I actually considered buying (but ultimately didn't for several reasons) that includes a keyboard and (laptop) trackpad and a pen. If I can buy 1 device that can do both handheld gaming and also laptop productivity, I can save a whole lot of money...

This is far too big, but still preferable over laptops if you just wanna game

Not big enough. I want to carry a 55'' "mobile" gaming device with me. Make it bigger!

Honestly, it kinda makes sense with the detachable controllers. It's essentially a very powerful tablet. It's less practical but it serves a different niche than the Steam Deck IMO.

Everyone's hating on this but I can't wait to get one used in 5-10 years. Looks pretty cool to me personally.

Tbf, the Steam Deck shows up as device type: laptop in the Steam Deck Hardware Survey.

You know the fun thing? If they managed to reduce the roughly 3+ centimeters of useless bezel on all sides the size wouldn’t be so unreasonable.

I love the joycon aspect.

this is basically the oversized razer kishi pro with an ipad mini.

ive got that rn and it's pretty amazing as a steam link device.

steamos really needs to fix their steam link code, it's a mess.

Even SD is too big for me after all. Would be nice to have a handheld with the exact power as SteamDeck, but compact

If it's not too too heavy, I'm not opposed.

Bigger screen will make touchscreen typing on a keyboard less of a PITA

Some games require rarely typing into the on screen keyboard, and as much as I like my ROG Ally, the small screen makes the onscreen keyboard a real pain to type on

Honestly what I'd like is a secondary N64 style center back handle that I can hold with 1 hand while I type with the other, to make the typing way more stable.

Awkwardly holding it out on the left side way off center fulcrums it as I type, which makes it less stable. You need some genuine wrist strength to fight against that lever action while typing.

So, instead, I usually awkwardly rest it in my lap while I try and type so it's stable at least. But this moves the screen a lot farther away so now I gotta squint at the small ass letters as I aim and type. Makes me feel like a goddamn boomer having to adjust my glasses and squint at the screen.

So... yeah I dunno, I feel like this is something that could use a better solution.

I guess I could use my Tap XR... 🤔

even with the tiny switch screen we played smash ult on it in kickstand mode with controllers in the break room. turns out if everyone uses dual joycon you get mad input lag before reaching max players. surprisingly playable if everyone can see.

with a bigger lug like this that would be a nicer experience with less squishing together

Finally, something I can read VN text on

As much hilarious as smartphones, increasing screen size bit by bit over 6", but never reaching 7" cause that would make them tablets, I guess?

I'm actually looking for a computer and thought this might be a good option if I can connect an external monitor and a keyboard some times

1x 27” laptop please.

if it doesn't fit in my pocket it's not a hand held

Aren't you missing the point? The portability and formfactor (controller) is what makes handheld pcs like this worthwhile. A laptop is a laptop, it's not really made for portable play and you'd need to lug around a controller.

I stopped using Reddit because of shitposts like these and here we are again.