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> The quick pick up and immediate suspend are the killer features for me. Yep, this has been the killer feature for me too. When playing a game involves closi
by nucleardog 4y ago
> The quick pick up and immediate suspend are the killer features for me.
Yep, this has been the killer feature for me too.
When playing a game involves closing out some other stuff, starting up steam, starting up the game, waiting for it to load, loading my save, waiting for it to load, playing for a bit, saving, exiting to the menu, exiting the game, etc... there's a certain minimum commitment of time involved.
When I can just tap the power button and get dropped back in the game where I left it, and when the next distraction comes up just tap it again (in a menu, in a cutscene, anywhere) and put it back down... suddenly all those little 20 minute chunks of dead time where I'd be doom-scrolling the internet can turn into gaming time.
Even when I _am_ sitting at my desk, I often just dock my Steam Deck and play with a controller on my monitor instead of firing up the game on my PC because it's so convenient. (The fact that it also doesn't heat my office up to 85 degrees like my PC is a bonus as well.)
- photoGrant 4y agoThat's genuinely a huge selling point I never even factored or was marketed/informed about!
- m4rtink 4y agoWell for the record, this has been standard functionality for mobile consoles in the past - both Playstation Vita and Nintendo Switch have the same instant suspend mechanics. Not sure about the TV-connected consoles as I never had one.
- deafpolygon 4y agoWith the Playstation 4, you can put the console in sleep mode and resume from where you left off. As long as you don't switch to something else (another game), it will stay in the background. As a grown ass adult with children, I have no time to sit through several hours in a single shot. So this has been invaluable.
- gpderetta 4y agoI'm amazed how well it works for the games I tried and how quickly it resumes. It does drain the batteries relatively quickly while in stand by though