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I never understood the steam deck. Most smartphones are much more powerful in terms are hardware, better screen technology (OLED and high refresh rates) More

by rozal 4y ago

I never understood the steam deck. Most smartphones are much more powerful in terms are hardware, better screen technology (OLED and high refresh rates) More importantly, you can easily stream games on to them. So why on god earth is everyone so excited about a crumby screen that can play a few games on medium settings?

dougmwne 4y ago
For one, game streaming is not portable past the range of a strong Wi-Fi signal. I have done game streaming on a phone with a Bluetooth controller and I found the ergonomics and screen size to be pretty uncomfortable. It can be done though and I played all the way through subnautica like that. And the swore to never do it again!
dimitrios1 4y ago
You are right, you simply lack any understanding what-so-ever if you think the only thing people care for are hardware specifications or having the latest and greatest tech.
BadBadJellyBean 4y ago
Most smartphones have more powerful hardware than a steam deck? I doubt that.
timw4mail 4y ago
No way are smartphones more powerful in hardware, and streaming adds latency to controls, regardless of the quality of the network connection.
sleepybrett 4y ago
Let me know when you get mainline AAA windows games running on your smartphone. Steamdeck does this through a software layer called proton. I guess you could try to port this to android or ios ... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton The hardware may be more powerful on your phone (but it probably isn't). The screen is probably better but the steamdeck's screen is pretty great to my eyes. I can also easily stream games to my steamdeck just like my phone, and sometimes do.. however that really only works if I am on the same local network unless I want to take a huge video compression quality hit. I can take my steamdeck on an airplane and play any game that doesn't require a really reliable internet connection (or games without that requirement of course). But if you are trying to stream games, have fun with that I guess.

by rozal 4y ago

dougmwne 4y ago

For one, game streaming is not portable past the range of a strong Wi-Fi signal. I have done game streaming on a phone with a Bluetooth controller and I found the ergonomics and screen size to be pretty uncomfortable. It can be done though and I played all the way through subnautica like that. And the swore to never do it again!

dimitrios1 4y ago

You are right, you simply lack any understanding what-so-ever if you think the only thing people care for are hardware specifications or having the latest and greatest tech.

BadBadJellyBean 4y ago

Most smartphones have more powerful hardware than a steam deck? I doubt that.

timw4mail 4y ago

No way are smartphones more powerful in hardware, and streaming adds latency to controls, regardless of the quality of the network connection.

sleepybrett 4y ago

Let me know when you get mainline AAA windows games running on your smartphone. Steamdeck does this through a software layer called proton. I guess you could try to port this to android or ios ... https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton The hardware may be more powerful on your phone (but it probably isn't). The screen is probably better but the steamdeck's screen is pretty great to my eyes. I can also easily stream games to my steamdeck just like my phone, and sometimes do.. however that really only works if I am on the same local network unless I want to take a huge video compression quality hit. I can take my steamdeck on an airplane and play any game that doesn't require a really reliable internet connection (or games without that requirement of course). But if you are trying to stream games, have fun with that I guess.