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I have a Steam Deck. The battery life is good on old games, that's true. But you can comfortably play a lot of modern games at 40hz/40fps mode; but just not fo

I have a Steam Deck. The battery life is good on old games, that's true. But you can comfortably play a lot of modern games at 40hz/40fps mode; but just not for a very long while. It feels bad knowing you can run them decently but not really unless you're plugged. Like, I wouldn't call people who want to play modern games on a handheld elitist? It seems to me that you're the one that has an elitist attitude as you're invalidating other people's opinion based on what... ? People want to play the games they want to play. Not only that, but as with any industry, the video-game industry has evolved over the years; games are not just prettier but there's also plenty of changes in how games are played. So it's not unreasonable to think for a lot of people games that were released 20 years ago don't feel like the games they enjoy. Really, there's a ton of really amazing games out there. And it's a shame to not be able to play them as comfortably as one would like to. Also, by your own reasoning, there's hundreds of games on SNES/NES/N64/PSX that can be played perfectly on sub 100 dollar consoles. Damn to all those elitist that only care about consoles capable of emulating XBOX 360 era games, it's never enough for them!

soulbadguy 3y ago
> Like, I wouldn't call people who want to play modern games on a handheld elitist? Not elitist, but somewhat unreasonable. One of the big difference between PC gaming business and console gaming is that the PC crowd (which i am a part of) has have an unreasonable fixation on performance and hardware specs instead of focusing on the experience, and that is bleeding on the reception of those windows handheld. Back in the day of the PSP, gameboy etc... It was rarely the case that someone would buy a handheld and expect to have "qualitatively" the same experience as s living console. We all understand that you get the same enjoyment, just in a delivered at a difference price/graphic/performance point. As people mentioned, there is so much amazing experience to be have at reasonable battery life around the 1.5 TFLOPS that the same deck can provide... From emulator, to old games, to nice 2D/indie games on steam or for very well optimized game (like diablo 4 or doom). Buying a PC handled and wanting the same experience as a desktop for me is just missing the point of an handheld PC (as opposed to a gaming PC for example). But to be honest, i can't really blame people for wanting that because the marketing is strongly implying that's what you get when you buy those. I have a steam deck (and will probably get the Ally), i play very different type of game on my deck vs my pc.

soulbadguy 3y ago

> Like, I wouldn't call people who want to play modern games on a handheld elitist? Not elitist, but somewhat unreasonable. One of the big difference between PC gaming business and console gaming is that the PC crowd (which i am a part of) has have an unreasonable fixation on performance and hardware specs instead of focusing on the experience, and that is bleeding on the reception of those windows handheld. Back in the day of the PSP, gameboy etc... It was rarely the case that someone would buy a handheld and expect to have "qualitatively" the same experience as s living console. We all understand that you get the same enjoyment, just in a delivered at a difference price/graphic/performance point. As people mentioned, there is so much amazing experience to be have at reasonable battery life around the 1.5 TFLOPS that the same deck can provide... From emulator, to old games, to nice 2D/indie games on steam or for very well optimized game (like diablo 4 or doom). Buying a PC handled and wanting the same experience as a desktop for me is just missing the point of an handheld PC (as opposed to a gaming PC for example). But to be honest, i can't really blame people for wanting that because the marketing is strongly implying that's what you get when you buy those. I have a steam deck (and will probably get the Ally), i play very different type of game on my deck vs my pc.