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A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Consoles are usually just weird, cheap, locked down, underpowered pcs, that only play certain brands/formats of games, and have unique cases, lol.

It basically means 'thing that is (usually) for your living room what plays video games and such'.

[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that was the point of my joke. I was just having a giggle at someone referring to it as a console. The truth in the jest - I do stand by "Steam Deck is a PC proper." I certainly wouldn't have bought mine if it was anything less.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Ah, sorry, I'm just explaining the joke then, woops!

(cough maybe trying to trigger any console fanboys cough)