@Jens_Rasmussen
I do.
And I have a family, that lives in another city.

And sometimes, I feel like playing from bed.

So, if you don't get the appeal, I get it, but when it comes to hendheld gamind, deck is a league above anything else.

@LukeAlmighty Most PC games aren't even that good to play without a mouse+keyboard.
Mostly console ports/multiplat games will feel good to play on the deck. Which I guess is justification enough to buy one for some people, but I just can't relate.

@Jens_Rasmussen
And that is ok....
I play monster hunter, GTA V and any old game I want to emulate. And for that, the deck is ideal.

But, of course I tried playing factorio on in, and gave up after 2 minutes.

@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty I still have a steam link which I purchased for $5 when they had a firesale on the thing.

I tried it out for a little why, games worked fine (it's streaming from your computer to the steam link.. via ethernet cable directly.. so yeah very little latency).

I tried playing FO:NV on it, which worked fine but it was a pain in the ass to get up and go to my PC to restart the game when it, uh, crashed lol.

I guess steam deck is an evolution of that, you can take it elsewhere in the house and hook it up to whereever rather than having to set it up in one spot, like near a big TV.

@lichelordgodfrey @Jens_Rasmussen
I don't see the connection, since the link was kind of a thing on it's own... but I own one too :D

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen can you connect your steam deck to a big TV?

@lichelordgodfrey @Jens_Rasmussen
Yes, but that is the same as connecting switch.

It's a different device.

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen sure but what I mean is.. the steam deck does what the steam link does, plus more, and it's less cumbersome.

@lichelordgodfrey @Jens_Rasmussen
Yes. In the same way as motorcicle does what a bike can.
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@lichelordgodfrey @LukeAlmighty I haven't heard about Steam Link before.
I know you can run a game on a different device and stream it on the one you are currently sitting at, but when I tried that the latency on that was too much to make the experience enjoyable.
Although I did that on two devices that weren't on the same network, so maybe I used it differently from how it's intended?

@Jens_Rasmussen @lichelordgodfrey
It was quite a good experiment, but it's quite useless device. (Working, and working well, but not with many uses.)

So, Valve turned it into a software, that you can put on your phone or Raspberry Pi

@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty I can't speak to that since I don't have a steam deck and no interest, but unless it's a turn-based game I wouldn't recommend it unless you're on the same network.