Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
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Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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I haven't heard many people talking about a key group here.
There are quite a few people out there who play the Deck handheld 95% of the time, so they rarely dock it... but they also aren't out and about traveling with it.
They just play it in comfy spots around their house, without ever really hooking it up to a larger screen extendedly. There are probably quite a few of them talking in this thread.
For any of these people wanting a performance upgrade: Steam Machine is going to be HUGE, and much better than switching to a slightly more powerful handheld at nearly the same price point.
These people can hook the SM up to a TV to check on it alone if needed... but primarily they will locally stream from it to their Decks. And it'll absolutely crush 60/70/90 FPS (the common max display rates on the Deck screens, depending on what flavor you have and whether or not you're overclocking the LCD display) at 800p, with graphics cranked WAY up on a ton of games.
It'll definitely be a fantastic era to be a household Deck gamer.
My steam deck is 95% docked gameplay. I love the ui, ux, cross saves, steam features, ability to play non steam games, and ease of use with the pile of controllers I've accreted over the years.
The same experience but it can run Expedition 33 at 1080p without looking like a framey disaster? Sign me up unless it's ridiculously expensive. I've got no interest at all in buying one of the big 3's DRM boxes, and building a PC for the living room is very expensive unless I'm willing to have it be a bigass tower. The cube is for meeeeeeee.