Looking forward for it, both because the ARM support, since I no longer play on the Deck but on my Android tablet via Game Native, and, if not too expensive or scalpel, for the headset itself. I’m interested both in VR and in using it as Far for regular controller games on the couch.

Oh, i see, thanks!

Hi, when people say it feels similar to the Deck, they also mean the shape? One thing I don’t like at all about the deck is how square the shape of its controllers are, as if they should be more angled outward in order to be comfortable to me. Are the Steam controller sides as straight as the Deck?

I’m starting Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon on PC. Was debating if playing this or getting a month ot Game Pass to play Metaphor Refantazio, but I was itching some Mecha action so I guess it is decided now :)

First weekend in a while actually free of plans or due tasks so hopefully will be doing some cycling, cooking and playing videogames :)

I just want my Steam Controller 😭

Well, maybe I bite the bullet with the Frame later on.

I highly doub that criticism has anything to do with them removing ads. More likely not hitting sales goals and tracking it down to ads it was made them change their stance.

The “simply worked” belongs to the Steve-Ive era. Those times are long gone.

But is actually crease-less or is more like bezel-less phones are?

With a camera bump that protrudes 2 cm from the phone’s body.

Is there a real market for €2.5k phones?

I’ve been wondering this too since the announcement of the frame. The ARM compatibility layer was the most exciting bit of the presentation for me. As much as I love my Deck I most certainly won’t be getting a Deck 2 in the future because what I need more in order to truly enjoy handheld gaming, for these aging eyes of mine, is a larger screen, something like 11+ inches. And it’s clear to me that those sizes can’t be achieved in the form factor of a Deck, you need something like a thick tablet with detachable controllers to do so.

I think the huge success of the Deck is because the form factor and the ability to play AAA PC games in said form factor, even if is on low settings or 30FPS. From the research I’ve done while buying a tablet for both content consumption and gaming is clear to me that ARM is still not up to that task yet but it is close enough. Next year’s Snapdragon elite 2 is tipped to be 30-404% faster and with a good compatibility layer and better drivers it could be a very viable option for handheld gaming.

I think that is not a matter of choice between x86 or ARM. Valve partnership with AMD goes deep and I think they will continue using both platforms for the foreseeable future and even possible but unlikely that at some point we got a base Deck with ARM and a pro model with x86.

I’m really excited with all this ARM compatibility stuff. Hopefully we will be able to install steam OS on Android devices at some point.

Oh, you’re right, I still have some difficulty with some words that sound similar to me but mean completely different things, thanks for the heads up!

It’s ok, much happier from learning new plugins :)

TabMaster sounds really cool, I don’t like much the default tabs so might give a try. I’m looking into syncing between Deck and PC for emulation and games that don’t support steam cloud with Syncthing and I think I’m going to need Proton tricks, I think that it’s called so, to help me with the save paths.

Some useful plugins: the one that lets you customize the theme on your deck, the one that allows you to scrap the covers for your non steam games right in gaming mode UI. Also the one that shows proton DB badges on your games and the other that let you manage your proton version. There is a bunch of other utilities in there for a lot of other use cases.

Great! I’ve been staying out of beta lately because of how it breaks Decky more than I’m willing to fix it. And this new feature is a nice one to have.

I’m not an expert on the whole Fediverse thing. I use Voyager on iPad since it is a clone of Apollo that I used back with Reddit, and I use Boost on my phone since I too used Boost for Reddit. I’m a simple man :)

In Boost it shows as Seam hardware and in Voyager as Steam deck. It’s fine with me since I know what’s going on. May it be a deal for someone that doesn’t know? I don’t think so, but who knows.

Maybe it needs some more time to propagate. As long as I don’t need to do anything on my side is ok :)

I keep seeing the same name (Voyager for iPad) is there anything I need to do, or am I just fine?