Why You SHOULD Buy A Steam Deck!

welcome back to the 128 KB podcast we are back once again due to lack of popular demand such a good cat phrase good I came up with it myself you did yeah the very first episode back yes there's still a lack of demand but we're here anyway yes uh this is your weekly dose of all things gaming oh y and today I want to convince AJ yes to buy a steam day finally okay it's also a chance for us just to um blow some smoke up valves ass yes yeah yeah yeah it all the reasons why we still love the steam deck and Andy this morning convinced me to buy one so that's happening this weekend oh oh is is that confirmation wow is it a not that one oh it's not even there where's the fogor it's not even the right patch oh there used to be a fog horn I was waiting to go yeah know that was on the other desk oh that was in the old set I hav this one there is that though oh the tumble weed that no one can hear which we thought would be a really good idea here the T weed uh it's just nothing I'll rip your head off it yes oh oh that was good censorship yes okay so the steam deck and specifically the steam deck o absolutely I mean it has to be if you're going to do do it oh yeah uh the reasons why I should buy it and really why we still think it is the best option not just for handheld Gamers but probably the best option for gaming right now absolutely it's such a good system it straddles everything it does yeah and there's a thousand reasons why you should buy it so thanks for listening we'll see you next bye let us know when you bought one and we'll do an updated video if you're in the comments do let us know if you've got one um already or if you're on the fence about one and maybe we can persuade you to join the Dark Side yes do now I've said it before on this show and for the new listeners who w't heard me say so I'm going to repeat again I love Final Fantasy 7 no um he does he dos it every day not even on when it's not the podcast the steam deck OLED is the first time in I'm going to say since probably the PS2 happened that I've done that noise when I've seen someone playing the new thing the OLED you had it here when you first got it it just launched yeah it was lit like day after or something and you had the back back to the door that this place where we playing it and I saw over your shoulder on uncontrollably just went oh wow yeah and it rubber banded me back to seeing the PS2 for the first time yeah that oh my God look at that yeah U I think it may have been like GTA 3 or something you know that kind of like oh look we're in the Next Generation now yes and that feeling's been missing definitely in the PS5 xbo box X era that emotion's not been there yet no I've not really maybe I a little bit had it in Final Fantasy 7 maybe a little bit in that game but never like proper wow and or uh uh gaming device so the steam OLED is the first time and it's not just how good it looks though is it no no it's it's the whole package it just wins and I mean taking it back a little bit going back to the the CD model I mean I put myself off what was it a year before I bought that oh we go back before it launched the most disliked video we've ever made on 128 KB was why uh I'm not pre-ordering the steam deck yes that was it I got ratioed hard it did get ratioed hard I had a good point though yeah I don't remember what the point was the point was that Val had a really bad history of Hardware oh that was the point yeah so I'm not going to pre-order it and take a risk going to wait to it to come out and see what it's like and that's basically what I did as well you know I waited the first year for them to iron out the the bugs essentially and basically make it more stable and just to see how much effort they would put behind it and then once I realized like I gave it that 12 months yeah then once that 12 months are in the whole time by the way I wanted one like I wanted one day one yeah I wanted one before then but I was like no I need to be hesitant I don't want to just jump in you know I want to just see what happens and then that 12 months had been and I said to Christina I was like I think Now's the Time you know it's going to Happ like I went through their like update logs and everything and just saw like hundreds of updates just going through and and everything that had been improved and and remembering what I saw at launch that would now been fixed and I was like now is the time and I remember getting this the LCD deck and being mind blown but within the first five minutes of me playing it I said to Christina if this had an OLED this would be something else you and I and I said to her if they drop an OLED I'm buying it despite the fact I just bought an LCD and I love that LCD version and then when the OLED was announced like that day I like took mine to a porn shop traded it in got the cash ready for more than I paid for it amazing and or at least the same amount I can't remember I got a ridiculous deal on that thing and I was just sat on the wedge waiting for the OLED and then like you know place the order in that and then when that came I had that final like this is it now and yeah like mind blowing just like you even though I'd already had experience long time experience with the LCD deck getting that OLED was like this is this is it you know and I still feel like that now however many months it's been since it launched it's it's been a fair while um Hardware Wise It's hard to argue its kind of value to what you're getting kind of offer yeah yeah yeah that balance is is incredible yeah um I hate the comparisons made I know I've said it before but I hate the comparisons made between uh handheld devices and their equivalent console version oh right yeah yeah it's like a PS4 it doesn't that doesn't make sense no no that's like comparing a motorbike and a car they're different things yeah yeah yeah yeah they both go on the road but they're not the same oh it's only got 100 horsepower but it's a motorbike you know it doesn't make sense the comparison um so yes it it gets compared a lot to it kind of like PS4 performance that's not fair yeah no no at all no no it's it is totally totally different um yes a a phenomenal bit of Hardware offering I I think really for me the the biggest amazement thing is the steam Library yeah that's got to be like the the huge offering and the fact that you can access that anywhere yes so if you got a PC I can at any time in the future I can access it it is absolutely gigantic the the length and breadth of games that are in there from amazing Indie titles through to like fullon AAA releases yeah yeah yeah yeah it's insane and the um kind of compatibility with the steam deck in particular yes yeah yeah it's a really high percentage massively now especially now and that was my other point of when it launched I was like what about the games you I mean and now now we're however many years in and steam you know like valve have been pushing so hard for testing their backlog of games making sure stuff is properly like verified or supported or whatever and if they're not then like actually helping developers get there yeah you know and make sure that these games are playable it's just so easy to navigate you know and it's so easy to test St how if it hasn't even been tested by them yet you know there's nothing stopping you if it says unsupported just download it try it and if it doesn't work use a different proton you know and it it probably will work there's plenty of games I'm thinking of backman Arkham City whatever the first one is says it doesn't work it does if you use the right proton you know and it it works fine 60 FPS you know like just it looks beautiful it's great and I I like that there's no like it doesn't stop you downloading it it doesn't say nah you know you can't do that I think that compatibility thing is a Real Testament to how much uh valve are truly supporting this yeah and it wasn't just a drop and run yes this is like long-term future everything is in supporting the hardware constant updates to the software that running on the operating system but also the huge Library consistently supporting the games that are on there yeah yeah yeah it's mad like we were saying this off camera imagine if like Nintendo Microsoft or Sony put this much support into their system like and be that transparent about it yeah like it's unheard of yeah it really is but yet valves like I swear every freaking week There's a new update or a new patch or whatever you know going into one of the Channels cuz you got like stable and then you've got like I can't remember what the other ones are but you got a few different channels so the stable channels like these are the official release patches then you got like the beta tester kind of style ones I can't remember what they're called but whatever you know so you can test out what they're working on fixing and stuff like that I just leave it unstable myself uh but if you want to Tinker around and maybe get some bugs then you can drop it down and try on one of the other modes it's it is crazy how supported it is and there like really random things that get added that I wouldn't even expect either and what I do love about it is they listen to the community and they take loads of different either feedback or mods that have been made by the community and they're like you know what you want this we'll just implement it into the actual system it's weird is it mad it they've Tak the uh the ephos of what steam was and made it into Hardware when when I think before the steam deck what the steam well the steam website was and the steam library was yes it's a game Marketplace but it was way more than that yes it was a community it was a forum it was places for Indie developers to put their game on pre-sale it was it was all of this big game Community for the for the PC Gamers um and they've taken that Community ethos and gone could we put that whole thing into hardware and magically they've managed to do that well they've they've successfully done it here CU they tried it previously kind of with like the steam link and then they had like these weird little steam PCS that were like offshoots with other brands like so you could get not I don't think it was Dell but like you could get the Dell steam box and like that kind of thing like and there was definitely an Asus one I'm sure but there was like these weird like collaborations and I just I don't think this is going to go very well and it didn't you know it didn't do very well but then when they did the steam deck I was like this has got potential and then obviously waiting to see where it is now it's absolutely they've nailed it I think it had to be different from what was uh the hardware that was already there in order for it to work yeah just bringing out a steam box which is basically a PC yeah yeah that's basically what they did or it's a makeshift console that's a bit kind of open-ended yeah yeah yeah yeah there's no incentive for the people with a steam Library currently to get that because I've already got a PC they're already playing on PC and probably better than that so what's the point but the handheld yes enticed those PC Gamers into something new yes and was so accessible and easy yeah that there was a lot of uh console Gamers like myself that are going to gravitate towards it as well yeah and also the theory had been proven by the Nintendo switch that opened the door to handheld hybrid gaming for certain yeah um playing uh big title releases handheld that definitely opened the the door for it um but the fact that it's so easy opened the door to PC gaming to people like me yes yeah yeah yeah absolutely I've never been interested particularly in that area and every time I've done it there's always been problems like you get and I I just want to play I haven't got time to mess around oh the dri yeah and all the handhelds are mainly Windows based like oh and that driver stopped working okay I need to oh my FPS has stopped really low what do I need to Tinker with that it's so much F oh the scenery is not rendering properly uh I just want to play yeah yeah exactly steam deck allowed me to do that yeah yeah yeah from it's very basic basic level the user interface the UI that it has yeah it's it's a console experience turn it on yes if I just want a console experience turn on press play on the game it's so easy have to I don't have to um open an operating system and then a launch and then hope that it's going to update hasn't happened it's going to break it and because all the steam decks are the same it is like a console experience you know all the ratings apply to everyone's steam deck as opposed to PC everyone's got different configs everyone's got different outdated systems or new systems or whatever minimum requirements yeah yeah you might be hitting different problems whereas all the steam decks are the same essentially you know so they're all going to play them the same you know and and that is that's huge especially for something that essentially is just a PC you know that's that's massive yeah you know so it's I think one of the really important things as well is that it doesn't run off Windows yes yeah yeah yeah you can Sid load and stuff you can you can a lot of people do that I'll be honest I don't know why you're bothering there's no point no why you put Windows on the only reason to put Windows on it if you're like a hardcore Destiny player or you want to play Call of Duty or whatever but to be honest if you're that far into wanting to play anti-che like based games like that you're probably better off getting something like the Asus Rog Ally you know just get something like that and deal with it you know I know it's a bit more expensive but you know the steam deck does so well at everything else all the single player experiences all the multiplayer experiences that don't have any cheat and all the Indie titles which is where it absolutely excels especially on the 90 HZ OLED like playing 2D Platformers at 90 frames per second you know it makes me like just want to go play it right now so you know there is a a reason why people you know Windows load it cuz that's the main reason why you can't play Call of Duty and fortnite and stuff like that it's just the anti-che thing is a Windows based thing and as soon as it sees Linux it goes nah you're cheating must be cheating yeah it's like what it's just a different operating system but um but if you're if you're one of those Gamers you're in that you're in that five top five 5% that going to be running off a decent PC that that if you want a handout experience like you say go for the Asis Rog Ally go for the MSI claw whatever it is you're in need of the higher end experience yes yeah yeah this is for the majority yes yeah yeah yeah I'd say um the the steam Library thing that this where I really want to kind of Base it off because this is where I think it really wins oh yeah massively from that sense of community there is just they've carried that over in fact it's the same steam Library yeah it's exactly it's exactly the same which means that community and that level of transparency is absolutely there from the Forefront yeah other eshops and uh kind of digital storefronts from PlayStation Xbox Nintendo they all have rating systems yeah of sorts you can have user feedback of sorts but the steam library is the only one that is openly transparent before you even open the listing for the game yes I can see how many people are having a good experience with this game in all time or right now yes which is Big it's huge and if I want more detail on what what were their problems with it then people can write detailed reviews and it's not hidden away in the listing the user feedback like a living breathing Metacritic where you can buy G it is yeah yeah it's right there um As Told very recently by Star Wars the Battlefront classic collection yes yeah yeah yeah yeah which everyone was hyped about this remake from asire uh and it was a hot mess at launch don't pre-order games kids don't pre-order games I think uh day one if I remember this right day one was three and a half thousand user reviews on Steam 18% of them were positive yeah and the rest were mostly negative so then it has this orange warning overwhelmingly negative yeah yeah yeah like okay so before I even look at details I can see that people are having a bad time with this game but what I love about it is the fact that you've got a second rating which is then the most recent update to that so there's loads of games on console that I might see that have a bad rating I write them off but on Steam I leave them in my wish list and then 6 months later or whenever it might be could even be years later I will open it up again and go you know what it will say like okay overwhelmingly negative but most recent reviews are mostly positive then you go oh I wonder why and you look down and it's they've sent a patch or they've updated or they've implemented new features to the game and they've completely changed it and like imagine no man's Sky when it came out like they lied literally lied the game was not what they promised everyone went nuts imagine if that was it and it died there and then like and you had no way of knowing that it got better right that's effectively what an outdated system like those are but then on like Steam for example it say okay yeah it used to suck but now they've done this and this this and this and everyone's actually loving it it's okay now I can go back and actually try that game that I wanted to play before it removes it removes some of the hangover of um launch mishaps which we see a lot of now problems at launch uh cyber Punk would be a really good example of that huge game yes um generational size game that now is complete and incredible yeah people love it yeah at launch totally opposite yeah was unplayable yeah yeah it was joke mean you know yeah yeah um so if the reviews were static if there was only one tier reviews then it the overwhelming amount of them would have come at launch yeah so it would always be negative yes but even that aside on the PlayStation and the Xbox equivalent you have to go into the game listing you have to go read all the details there's the pictures preview videos hidden it and right at the bottom it's the user ratings and there's no detail feedback in that yeah at least not that I can remember any off the top of my head it's just a star rating yeah I'm pretty sure it is yeah um but again on the steam Library if you so wish you're right a whole yeah yeah and some people leave like seriously detailed reviews some people just leave um memes and you know text pictures of boobs and that's fine too that's true yeah but it's a community and that's a it's a rare thing that there is a a community that's so like kind of overwhelmingly positive yes and just yeah supported so supported by the company at large but also the users and and it's all like everyone's working together for better gaming experience for everyone yeah yeah yeah i' would go as far as to say that valve feel like the only gaming company now that are genuinely for the players yeah yeah it seems that way isn't it it's almost like they're totally unbiased and they're like you guys run it you what I mean like you you run it yeah exactly yeah um you you said it as well you touched on it with um the community modding yes which is again it's a huge thing to show that it is it's more than just a digital storefront it's the whole thing but that's what I love specifically about the deck is because you can do anything it is just a PC you can back out of Big Picture Mode you can go to the Linux desktop and you can do stuff if you're got the smarts you know like especially if you're like super nerdy about it you can do all sorts of stuff on there whatever you want but if you're maybe in a rush or maybe not as up to it as as some other people maybe well then you can use other people's settings and other people's findings and their work like specifically for games that say unsupported but can run they're just like maybe the controls are completely messed up for example Psychonauts I was like I want to play Psychonauts you know amazing game especially on the OLED with all the colors and stuff brilliant game loaded it up complete mess you know like I was but I I know there's going to be a way of getting this to run but how you know and it just a little bit of problem solving and it it was uh you know you can just press the steam button whilst you've got the game up or whatever and then you can go to like community and then there's all the different uh controller layouts and configs and stuff and you can just select one it will just open a menu of like hundreds of different people's and they tell you specifically what they've doing so maybe you want it to be like a joystick like you know uh thing instead of a d-pad or whatever and it will rebind and remap everything so that the game actually works rather being a complete mess which psychonaut was cuz it's such an old game you know it's like early 2000s game it was not designed for the modern controller layout other people fixed it for me so instead of me having to spend a weekend figuring out how to do it myself I just like I try this guys oh look it works I can play the game now amazing you know and and that's brilliant you it's really easy to to find a solution and because there's so many people with steam decks even if you can't do it on the thing a quick Google on your phone someone's got to fix you know and if it really can't be done well then you'll find out pretty quickly but you know there in't much that can't that ethos of Being for the players um one of the big things for me is that this comes from P the PC World the whole idea of the steam website the Steam Community the steam Library it all comes from PC gaming yeah PC gaming made the transition to digital only oh years and years ago 15 years yeah easy something like that more than that yeah I'd say yeah it was like around I want to say around the 20078 mark yeah the last time I remember seeing um boxed PC games would have been the PS2 era yeah early 2000s yeah would have been around then yeah I I still had PC boxes up until probably about 2000 I want to say the prince Persia game that they did that was cell shaded I've still got the box for that yeah and I think that was 2008 that sounds about right and that I think was like the end of it yeah you know so let's say 15 15 towards 20 years 15 for definite um because of that PC Gamers have embraced this um this idea of a digital storefront and digital purchasing of games it's just happened it hasn't happened on Console yet there's still a big kind of wall up against it yeah yeah yeah but what steam has done in particular which is incredible is you buy that game the worry for everyone about digital early future is oh yes but if I buy my game off PlayStation and Playstation again recently got a lot of problem s with this you could just take it away you could lose the license to it that game can get deleted from The Ether yeah yeah yeah in all of that time of the steam Library existing that hasn't happened no even if the game is no longer for sale yes your copy of that game you bought it is still there still there yeah even if you don't have that installed right now yeah yeah yeah your copy is still downloadable and installable I've got it for all the original GTA like the very first ones I've got it for like Fable 2 or three whichever that is I've got a bunch of them on my library that you can no longer buy or even find the page for steam but I can go and download it y you know like I've still got access to it cuz I bought it 15 years ago 20 years ago you know that's cute that cannot be understated how big that is so I buy a digital purchase and our concern is always that it gets deleted in off some server in the future yeah well it just hasn't happened happen I remember you being mind blown when we got the LCD deck yeah and I loaded up half Life 2 and I was like oh look there's my save file from like 2004 or whatever it was and you were like what what it was like time travel I was like yeah that's that's my actual save from then you know like as a nostalgic gamer as well as you can tell that that in itself is like it was as beautiful as if I had found my memory card for my PS2 you know and put it in and got no way my save files are there I can see my old um I don't know if You' played like racing games and they used to do like the ghost cars of your I can see this seeing your sa files for half 2 how long 20 years yeah pretty much previous was like it was like one of those kind of time travel that is incredible yeah yeah it is really good beautiful for the players embracing this digital future which we're going to have to get used to in the console world yeah yeah yeah but showing you that it can still be player friendly yes yeah I love it yes yeah and that's one thing I love about it as well is I know like when there's a steam sale which we'll talk about in a second I can buy a game and be like uh I'll probably play it in 20 years I know in 20 years time I've got access to that game and I can play it you know and if I had started playing it if I wanted to continue my save from 20 years ago I can just remember what the controls are it makes sense to talk about it now it's not just the Steam Sale it's the steam spring sale as we record this just started games I'm not going to yeah that kind of inspired this conversation someone in our Discord server join the Discord you have to be a channel member yeah there's links everywhere just do it and you can get part of the Discord but someone in there was talking saying oh spring Sal start today how many of you buy any good game that's under 5 with the thought that you're probably never going to play it it's like everyone that's what the Steam Sale is um yeah yes but you get incredible games 299 insane yeah some games are like 98% off and you're just like yes like yeah so it the whole thing again it's Community is the kind of bubble that it sits in and but the focus within that Community is the individual player is really beautifully done you're incentivized in many ways any game you like the look of when you're scrolling through this steam Library yeah uh is to go yeah I'm going to add that to my wish list and keep an eye on it you saw how many were in my steam you must have had 100 games in your wish list easy more than that yeah yeah and then any time a game in your wish list is on sale and it doesn't just happen in the big sales they can just go oh it's 50% off you go do I fancy buying that for £3 or not yeah yeah yeah and it's literally that cheap it is that cheap yeah and you get a notification on your phone if you got steam installed get an email and on your steam deck you know you just get a notification you're like oh sweet I'll have a look at that what I think is wonderful about that is that there's in my mind in buying the amount of games I have throughout the years there's two types of games yeah there's the big moment games that I have to play as soon as they're released yes yeah Final Fantasy have you heard of it oh I'm surprised you you didn't bring that up before that's it's a great example if you were I don't know into Spider-Man when that when Spider-Man 2 came out and there what the PlayStation exclusives that are on on PC that on the steam yeah so you can play it on Steam yeah um Metroid dread I just seen it over your shoulder do you know what I mean there's these moments that are really big that you have to play it ated and you're happy to pay the full ticket 70 price yeah yeah yeah and then there's every other game that you like the look of yeah um for me less so for you Prince of Persia would have sat in that yes the Lost CR I was like that's a game I like the look of yeah there's loads of kind of Metroid Vey games like I kind of like the look of that yeah yeah yeah yeah um there's a ton of indie games that happens to there games we talk about quite a lot like I'd quite like to play that hell divers 2 great they're the games that like I'll get round to at some point I like the look of add them to my wish list yes yeah and I know at some point in the future I'm not going to rush to play them but I know that they're good yeah yeah yeah it'll hand up in in a in a sale yeah and you get notified they didn't didn't get lost in the you know in the whatever you actually can go oh yeah I remember now and oh look at the price drop I mean it's happened to me I mean even today with hell divers one you know I've always wanted to play that but I was I don't really want to play I don't want to play that bad you know and then this morning it was like steam sale3 I was like now I want to play it I was like I'm having that one thanks I probably will never play it but you know at least I've got access to it if I want to and this isn't um if you're on the fence about the steam deck this isn't an off the- moment thing the idea of uh the Steam Sale has been around for as long as I can remember it happens multile times The Humble Bundle yeah they do um stuff yeah yeah like I'm thinking like that started long time ago spring sales theyve this idea of big ticket sales or big bundles of sales has been around since the library's been around yeah yeah yeah yeah it's not as like a new thing to get people on to the steam de no no and they do it multiple times a year like you know they do it at Christmas they'll do it freaking I don't know whatever holiday there is in America pretty much covers you know like Thanksgiving like stuff like that there's there's a good sale I'm pretty sure it's about four times a year once a quarter really and then you get massive sales um and sometimes you'll just find a random sale what I do like as well is you more than likely get pre-order sales so like if a new game's coming out even though you know we said not to pre-order games but you know sometimes sometimes you do you know sometimes you can't help yourself I pre-ordered a game recently oh yeah a final fantasy oh that that small IND game I've not heard of yeah yeah yeah like small company Square yeah that's it yeah um but yeah if a game's coming out like Final Fantasy you know that small indie game small IND game yeah um you often get like a 10 15% discount if you pre-order it and you're like oh go on then you know some I've done that with a lot of indie games that like pretty cheap anyway I don't have like overly High expectation I go you know what I'll support them go on then and usually it's pretty fun um most of the time I wait for the release wait for the user scores yes and then I'll base my purchase off of that but the fact that all of that comes into play like it's just so easy I will say there is um there is a negative oh yeah with and it's with the with steam in general yeah there is there is one negative yeah because it's a very open Marketplace mhm um it doesn't have as much of a problem as Nintendo does with just thousands of Dil oh what all the hentai games yeah because you can sort and browse a lot easier than you can on the ehhop so you can sort through the rubbish a lot easier but it is a very open low bar um place to publish games yes yeah yeah so there could be a lot of yeah there there's there can be a lot of stuff but when it's already released and if it's rubbish you'll just have like either no reviews and that's an alarm Bell in itself or it's just overwhelming negative and we know this is rubbish my negative is born out of the odd occasion and it does happen dead by daylight or whatever it was called mhm what was it Not Dead by daylight the the game that never happened day oh the day before the day before dead by daylight something else I'm sorry to the people that made that game no way Associated to this negative thing the day before the day before that was it or whatever it was called that that open world supposed to be Zombie Survival game never actually happened yeah yeah well it kind of did happen but just not yeah the idea of being a um basically a paid beta tester on games yes or buying buying things in a kind of crowdfunded way yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's a lot of what um the kind of community was born out of on this when steam very first started yeah yeah well the like Early Access Early Access which they make very clear if it's early access yeah but because of that there is a lot of scope for the odd negative thing to happen where people have lost money on really bad experiences I will say from a game developers perspective you know as I've said before I came from a world where I used to be part of game development teams working on music and the sound effects and I was part of a lot of games that were early xes and the ones that never made it to full release everyone in it is trying their best yeah it just never happened and if anyone out there's ever done any kind of creative Endeavor not everything works out sometimes things fail sometimes falls apart you run out of money time or Just Energy yeah so sometimes it is it's genuine and that's what early kind of one of the risks of Early Access is but other times and the idea of Early Access it is open to exploitation and it has happened as shown by that game yeah but the good thing is is if you've got a play time of under something like 2 hours no questions asked refund really yeah that's incred on Steam yeah so any game you buy so you know when you bought Robocop and you didn't like it on Xbox you paid full price yeah it was £60 and they wouldn't give you the money back no they wouldn't me if you bought it on Steam uh you would have got your money back no questions asked I think I I played I think I played for two hours something like that and I just realized I hated it I'm pretty sure you've got to play under two hours I might be wrong might be more than that now y but if you've got a play time cuz it's all logged in your account um and this the same with people's reviews by the way I forgot to mention men this this is a really good thing if you see people's reviews it will tell you how many hours they've spent that's so it will say they played this game for 10,000 hours and then you're like okay yeah that person know whereas if it says for like five minutes then you're like yeah okay they're just making crap up you know but yeah they will refund anything that's incredible easy to do again that whole ethos of it's about the community with focus on the player as an individual yeah yeah yeah it's pretty phenomenal um prices of games though I go back full circle to it it is mad like I with the switch because the Nintendo switch is basically what I wanted well no sorry the steam deck is what I wanted the switch to be and at the time that's what it was because there was no handheld PCS really not affordable ones and like not weird Niche things so when the switch came out and then it started having third party games that's why I got so heavily invested in that cuz I was like there's loads of PC games coming now and that I can play portably CU I've always loved handheld play and that's why I endorsed the switch so much and I was really focused on that um and all the third party titles like near automata and all that kind of stuff that come over I'd be like I'm jumping on that I'm jumping on that jumping on that but really all I wanted was the steam deck so I could play all these games I'd already bought cuz I ended up buying games twice just to play on the switch so I could play them portably no cross save with PC do what I mean like it was just the novelty of that then when the steam deck came I'm like oh great you know I've I've now got access to my whole Library yeah I've got 20 hours of save time on that one vice versa there's games I've bought on the switch that I've now re-bought on Steam cuz it's like half the price on Steam as it was on switch and I know like these saves are going to last me you know I can play this in the future on basically any PC whereas the switch it might at some point become redundant I'll say in my mind if you've not got any gaming console at the moment steam de's a great choice obious yeah yeah but if you do I think it makes the perfect partner thing like you've got a PlayStation in your your Lou or your bedroom whatever steam deck are an awesome compliment to it oh absolutely yeah and there's plenty of games that are cross- saved between PlayStation and Xbox as well yes because there are PlayStation Studio games on the on Steam and there's Xbox Studio games on Steam as well and there is cross- save games out there especially you can stream off your Xbox on it onto it as well with an app kind yeah yeah you can um Remote Play yes you can do that with both uh the PlayStation 5 and Xbox which adds to it kind of it's a great partner yep especially if you if you've got a PlayStation that's say and you you were thinking about the portal for remote play well I'm just sneezing my head off over here bless you oh thank you uh yeah if you've got a PlayStation and you thinking about something to play portably in the portal was an idea is £00 and it doesn't do anything else no maybe consider the steam deck as a partner to that and the steam deck OLED is an HDR OLED OLED display whereas the portal isn't no doesn't even support H honestly looks so much better than the portal um the other thing I I kind of it's almost it feels a little bit of a there got to be a hot take per episode doesn't it yeah it feels like a hot take for this episode something that I'm going to annoy people with okay yeah it kind of feels like the steam deck is the perfect console to play all the games that you just want to play yes whereas like if again if I want the AAA Day One release thing I probably want to sit in front of a TV and have a full or PC and have the full experience yeah yeah yeah yeah okay yeah so the steam di feels like the best accompany companying device that's kind of what they made it for isn't it it was like oh so like I've seen the success of the switch you know and PC game is to have no other option yeah the only other thing is to have a massive laptop that gets really hot really loud you need a power supply do I mean here's my hot take I always hated laptop gaming yeah yeah yeah hated I've done it and I've always had a gaming laptop but it sucks you know I choose the steam Tech any day because you got built-in controller you know like with a laptop you need a controller you know or another mouse or do I mean whatever it is playing off the touch pad yeah yeah um but yeah so yeah the steam deck is excellent for games that like you said you just want to play and it's so easy to just pick up and go you just press the button oh yeah okay great I can play half an hour if I want or less or I can sit there for hours and like dive into it especially on the OLED where the battery level you know the battery life is so much better you know you saw I was getting like 6 to9 hours in some 2D games you know which is insane you know whereas on some other windows based you know handhelds you're looking at like an hour you know so I think the steam de is the perfect balance between power and like battery life you know it's it's a middle ground it's better than the switch not quite as good performance-wise as these other you know more expensive systems but the other thing is is um upgradability and customization like it's so easy to mod your steam deck you did it straight away didn't you I immediately upgraded the the SSD yeah so I I bought the 52 gig OLED cuz I knew I was going to upgrade to a 2 tbte you know mvme um super easy you know really easy to do just pop the back off you know disconnect the battery what about uh reinstalling the operating system and stuff there's two ways oh really easy there's two ways to do it you can either like uh clone the original one if you've got um like an SSD enclosure like an m.2 enclosure so you can do it that way in Clone which would be easier I tried to do that but it wouldn't work for some reason so I just ended up flashing the Steam OS you just download it um and mount it onto USB or for an SD card uh and then just stick it in done oh wow just boot it off that and then it it works you know it's really easy that's incredible yeah um I guess I guess the final part really is that we know that it's going to have longevity not just the hardware the hardware in Evol itself we know has got a good few years left in it at least a good two to three years Val said as much they're not upgrading this until there's a reason to upgrade it and there's no need for them to because otherwise they're diving into like Xbox territory with having a series X and A Series S you don't want that you know so they're not going to have like these two different Power output systems that they've got to like try and juggle they're going to wait and then do the successor when there's actually a big enough leap ahead to make it worth while for sure but even then they're going to support both well and that was my other point to the longevity thing is that we know from looking backwards over the past 15 odd years that it's existed that you buy a game then and you can still play it now yes even if it's not for sale anymore you can still download it get your safe out and play it now yeah yeah so we know if you bought a steam deck today and I don't know you bought a 100 games on it because you feeling flush and then it gets um sunsetted and the new one comes out and you don't buy it not right away your games aren't deleted no no you'll still be able to play on the maybe you you reformat your steam deck and sell it your library is still there online you can log into it on your PC see anytime maybe get a gaming PC in the future all your games are still there maybe you then jump into the steam deck 2 when that comes out whatever it would be called your games will still be there yes you're almost it kind of feels like investing into a game library that will be there maybe forever yeah yeah you're like investing into the library rather than the hardware yeah it's not like the old days where you'd invest into the console you know this is like almost like you said you're investing into your game collection yeah knowing that it'll be there with you and the other good thing is as well is cuz you can play pretty much any game on it yeah okay some of the mo most modern AAA titles might struggle a little bit so you're looking at like 30 FPS it's fine but if you've got a gaming PC so what I've got is my editing gaming PC upstairs and that's hardwired into my router and then I can have my steam decka downstairs I can actually get the PC to play the game render it and then just Wi-Fi like through the Wi-Fi stream from that system so so it can Remote Play yeah yeah I can Remote Play from my PC and my you can check a box in Steam so that my PC is only rendering out at 800p yeah so it'll be like 240 FPS do you what I mean like that kind of like it'll be maxing it out cuz my gaming PC is way more powerful obviously than just the steam deck so you'll be getting all those visuals you can crank everything up to maximum and it look beautiful whilst you're playing it there and providing you've got a stable internet connection you know you can do that great or you can do what I do which is dock the steam deck into my TV my 4K TV get my PC upstairs to render it out of 4K and play it through my steam deck onto my TV so it's like I got a console I mean for those those that didn't want to do that you could just plug your steam deck as is into your TV you can just do that yeah set the output to 1080 as you saying so it's not trying to crank out 4K output from that Apu yeah yeah yeah um and you then are playing it kind of dockable like the Nintendo switches yeah yeah yeah and for most games that'll be fine providing you a lower resolution and you're you're not expecting too much out of it but for like Platformers and 2D games and indie games oh my God you'll smash through that like perfectly you know and even some Modern AAA games providing that you on a lower resolution lower graphic settings it will absolutely output that to your TV put it in performance mode yeah yeah fin Fantasy 7 yes yeah I'm looking at you but yeah it's it is insane there's so much stuff we haven't even like gone through as well you know that's that it can do yeah there's just too much really to encapsulate but it's amazing it it is amazing it's um yeah it's definitely something that you persuaded me now to get into I was I was on board anyway I've just been sat on the fence to spend the money but I kind of live precariously through you oh and I get to play yours every often so you know well that's that's why I've perally not been bringing it recently yeah I've been like what what else am I going to do with my day I know that's it so I've like waiting to see how long it'll take for you to uh to purchase one it's happening uh let us know in the comments below if you're on YouTube if you're already steam Die Hard or perhaps you're on the fence and you're thinking about getting it let us know if you are that way or maybe you think the opposite and you I don't know you hate it maybe you hate life let us know if you're on the podcast platforms please do rate this show yes obviously five stars yes um now that your 45 minutes of the show is over it's time to leave the toilet yes make sure you wipe wash and rate the show oh yes yeah yeah or other catch phas I forgot about that yeah I did as well um Channel memberships is of course open it is indeed that's the other big one and it really firstly it really means a lot it does it's it's 99p on YouTube join the channel 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Length: 46min 30sec (2790 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 03 2024