Steam Deck Hands-On Preview Drops - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 February 2022 / 2,733 Views
Valve will be releasing the Steam Deck on February 25 and now the first hands-on previews of the portable device have started to release.
There is a current embargo that limits the previews to only talk about the hardware itself and just seven games - Forza Horizon 5, Control, Dead Cells, Ghostrunner, Devil May Cry 5, Portal 2, and Street Fighter V: CE. Talking about the Steam Deck OS is not allowed.
LinusTechTips discussed the Steam Deck's controls saying that he "can reach every button comfortably from a neutral, relaxed position," however, he does " find a number of them a little awkward to use."
He does say the joysticks are "miles ahead of every other handheld I have touched, with the exception of the Aya Neo Next."
View LinusTechTips' hands-on preview video below:
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The look reminds me of the game gear.
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At least you won't have to replace 4 AA batteries every few hours :)
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-BATTERY LIFE NINJA APPROVED-
I think 2 hours is too generous. I remember it being more like 90 minutes, sometimes less. I haven't touched one in many years, but as a kid I remember thinking it was ridiculous how often we had to replace the batteries. I had to load my carrying case full of extra batteries for the car ride to the beach.
Be great for the PS3/X360 era games. Think of many that would likely play maxed out on it.
Yeah, these you'll be able to max out. In general, it's the PS4, XB1 equivalent (or GTX1050-ish) just by looking at the GPU specs, but with better architecture, much better CPU, faster drive and more RAM. We will know for sure soon.
This thing running a switch emulator would be a better switch than the actual switch.
Except for everything about it haha. I guess the one way it would be better is no joy con drift. That's it.
Well, on Steam Deck you can play a ton more games than you can on Switch, so that's a pretty big benefit.
Even a good PC truggles to play switch emulator perfectly, this thing has no power for that.
Switch emulators don't require a lot of power. My mediocre PC runs some games very nicely in 2x resolution. Just emulators themselves are not perfect, still in development, made a lot of progress last year though.
I have a Ryzen 7 3800x and 16gb 3600mhz ram. Fast nvme and 2080 graphics. It barely plays switch properly at all. Nowhere near my own switch. Unless you’re talking side scrollers.
My i5-9400 & gtx 1650S plays Super mario odyssey and bowsers fury almost perfectly @ enhanced graphics. Also Captain toad, tokyo mirage sessions, mario tennis.
You're definitely lying.
I am definitely not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltAZB7tyZsk
There are lots of evidence on Youtube. Some people are just oblivious.
My definition of running perfectly is different than yours. When I say perfectly I mean with no lag spikes. Also that’s only 1080p and it doesn’t even say the specs.
Maybe they improved the emulator since I tried it but still off on my 1700 dollars pc it doesn’t run as well as on the switch then yours doesn’t either. So you’re lying.
Just saw the specs. My pc is slightly more powerful. So yeah. Way more powerful than yours it’s not even close.
Essay Pro