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Annapurna definitely has a certain style of game they like to work with, don't they? Mostly the kind of stuff they publish isn't my thing, but Stray does look pretty cool. Wishlisted.

Nah. My need for handheld gaming isn't strong enough that I'm going to early adopt a Valve product. But if they actually stick with it, keep iterating on Proton, and improve the base specs, Steam Deck 2 might interest me.

Yeah, it's probably fine at the internal screen res of 720p, but that's not what I was talking about. In order to be a reasonable docked device, it's needs to at least do 1080p well. Nice you have faith in FSR, but as of now it's really not very competitive with DLSS, and I'm pretty sure they could have stuffed an Nvidia chip inside that monster.

I just can't shake the feeling that this is going to be a hugely uncomfortable handheld with lousy battery life that no one will enjoy using, and it's too underpowered to really be useful as a docked PC replacement.

FidelityFX is not equivalent to DLSS. That's not to say it won't be competitive some day, but right now it's not.

In my fantasy world this would be a pretty cool replacement for the Link as a way play my Steam library on a TV, but I don't think it's going to be that. Shame they didn't go with an Nvidia GPU. Add DLSS, and you'd at least potentially have something that's both a good handheld and a reasonable docked device.

At this point, it's just kinda "ok...cool?" until they give samples to someone who's actually going to put it through its paces.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/

UI scaling for all the many, many Steam games that definitely weren't designed for a screen that small seems like it would be a big problem? Curious to see where this goes.

Big womp womp sound.

Very true. The biggest bummer about GB evolving into essentially a video-only site is how little of Alex's writing we got. Maybe Nextlander will give him some options and motivation to do it more.

OK, I need to go read his 2020 GOTY post again.

I really could have used some self haircut tips about 6 months ago.

Yup. Have to admit I'm pretty surprised. And now I'm very curious about GB's current and past subscriber numbers. Evidently a lot bigger than I thought.