Valve recently raised the price on the Steam Deck, making the handheld gaming PC cost up to $949 for the 1TB OLED model. While that’s a massive $300 increase over its original price, the Steam Deck is once again sold out.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    10 hours ago

    I bought a steam deck when they came out (the cheapest one so I could upgrade the storage myself), and it’s a pretty nice device. But I honestly couldn’t come up with a use case for it. I think I just don’t like games as much as I used to.

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 hours ago

      I went with the Lenovo legion go for the switch-like removable controllers. It’s running CachyOS and I use it more as a mini computer than a gaming device. Same, gaming just doesn’t do as much for me as it used to

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        So, what do you do with it? Browse something? Play media? Or you connect external peripherals to it? I just can’t imagine much use case of gaming controls outside games, but I might be less creative.

    • Thunder_Caulk@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 hours ago

      Same here, I bought a play station 4, and it was collecting dust. I couldn’t find the energy to play, when I had time, I just opted to lie down and rest.

      Is this old age? 🫪