Anyone got a Steam deck?

[Wyvern971]

I finally got hold of an Xbox series X a couple of months ago, and also have a Nintendo switch (original). Having pre-ordered a 512Gb Steam deck last year, I should be able to place my order later this quarter.

The only question I have is whether it makes sense or not for me. I have a reasonable library on Steam, but no gaming PC (or space for one).

For anyone that has a Steam deck, how do you find it, and did you think it was worth the asking price?

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[lawler]

I have one that is due to be delivered to me later this week (512GB version).

Not sure whether I should sell it as I don’t really game anymore and it was a bit of an impulse reservation made last July.

The reviews do look great though!


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[Wyvern971]

Well looks like I am in the same boat now, my pre-order email came in so will see how it is when it arrives.

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[dougair]

I’m interested in these (shout if you do t decide to keep). It I’ve read some reviews that’s it’s quite a beast and about 4 times the thickness of a Switch!

[mattleicester]

Had mine for a few months . If you have a gaming pc you WILL be using it less. sitting on the sofa for a few hours playing games it a lot more comfortable that on a full pc . Performance is pretty much all ironed out regarding bugs ect .
Plays all my steam games mostly trouble free
Top tip . Get buying some sd cards if you see them on offer and grab a good case to keep them in .

[MattH]

Yes got a 512 its awesome… i am playing games which have sat in my steam library untouched.
Emulation is slick to setup (using emudeck) and runs pretty much anything.

really enjoying playing games from the ps1/ps2/dc and gc eras .

Very nicely put together machine with a constant stream of updates
from valve.

[Matt London]

How long did delivery from time of order take for you people?

I can complete my order now but need to choose the delivery address. If it’s next week I will have to get it delivered to work.

Oh, and which company delivers?

[MattH]

About a week it comes from the Netherlands and ended up i think being delivered by evri/hermes

[Matt London]

Thanks for that Matt, it’s very handy information.

Hermes are the worst company for delivery to home, so I will get it sent to work.

[MattH]

Apologies got mixed up - just checked and got handled by parcelforce once in the UK..

cheers

matt

[Matt London]

Thanks for the follow up Matt. It’s much appreciated.

[Matt London]

Following on from the post on a Sales thread.

I think this is the link for instructions I followed to get the Game Pass Cloud Gaming to work

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming...he-steam-deck/

This is definitely the one I used for PlayStation Remote Play

https://www.androidheadlines.com/how...team-deck.html

I used a Bluetooth keyboard to type the lines. It may well be easier to open these links in the desktop browser to copy and paste the command lines.

I initially had some problems with audio and video glitching in PlayStation Remote Play. I found a solution online that worked for me. In Chiaki settings I changed codec to H264 and the Audio Buffer Size to 19200.