Pretty sure we have someone from Acram here… @RachetAcram any insight?
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Well, this is very, very interesting:
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Looks cool. According to a FAQ over at IGN, a few things to note:
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They claim is can do anything a PC can do, so it isn’t limited to the Steam store. Presumably that means I can play, say, WoW on it? FFXIV? Could be cool.
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There is an SD slot to expand memory, but that will obviously run slower than than the HDD.
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They are working on a dock, so you could drop it onto your TV Switch-style.
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The battery could be the killer. 2-8 hours. As a benchmark, Portal 2 ran for about 4 hours. That’s a bit rough.
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There’s becoming quite a few of these handheld pc things on the market. Aya Neo, Onexplayer, GPD Win, and a bunch of others. Albeit quite expensive (usually ~$1k). This is the first I think I’ve seen around $400.
I’m quite tempted and was wondering when this market would explode as the switch is great but it’s obviously constrained to the Nintendo store. A PC version was inevitable and a great thing.
If this thing docks and integrates seemlesly with controllers, that would be amazing.
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For a year there while I was confined to home I found myself playing League of Legends again, but that exception aside I haven’t touched a PC game in a decade. This is primarily because in order to do so I’d have to disappear upstairs to the office. I would rather be on the couch with my family if we have downtime. This device could be the solution to my “problem.” I am looking forward to it.
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Same. And it’s not because there aren’t oodles of PC games I want to play or try, it’s pretty much the same reason as you. If I’m going to go ensconce myself away for a bit, it’s going to be for a book or TV, not a video game. This would get me playing PC games again. But the battery life is a killer. I’ll wait for version 2, I think. Let the early adopters get all the bugs out : )
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Well, I might be one of those early adopters … for $5 that was sitting in my Steam wallet anyway, sure, I’ll preorder one and actually decide later.
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I per-ordered the 512gb one. I have 200+ games on Steam and halve to boot camp for half of them. This will be good for some of the more action ones on the PC side for me.
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Same here … I own a Mac laptop and got sick of the boot camp thing.
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You guys bring up a good point - unlike other console releases, this is a steal for people with a big PC library since they already have the games to play.
He has a point:
http://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2021/07/ill-believe-steam-deck-is-worthwhile.html?
Hard to argue with that. I figure, though, it costs me nothing to preorder—the money was already in my Steam wallet from a gift card I hadn’t finished spending, and if I cancel at the last minute, it’ll go back there. I imagine we’ll hear more about the hardware before release, and I can make a more informed decision then. If this is another Valve hardware failure, I’ll back out. I put my reservation in late enough that I have no illusion about being in the very first wave of buyers.
I don’t really care about screen resolution—nothing I play is that graphics-intensive. This would help me get through my backlog, including several games I got in Humble Bundles that I haven’t played because they’re Windows-only. (Not sure any more why I got a Mac … )
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Hasn’t the steam box been in development for a decade? This is the first I’ve heard of a switch sized version.
If they’re going portable then I assume they are trying to compete with the console market. Cod on the sofa? Ok, I get that, we are all mobile gamers here. But we can cod on Xbox. Now if we’re talking about eu4 on a switch sized device? I’m sceptical
Paradox games on a mobile device? Ooooh this suddenly went from zero interest to convincing use case in 3 seconds. *
*yes, yes, if works etc. I’ll let all the early adopters try it out first.
Edit: or Into the Breach which I haven’t played enough of and never quite felt justified buying a Switch.
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Wingspan now available on iOS
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Yeah, I woke up today it it was on my phone. Pre-ordering can be fun 
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Now maybe I’ll learn to play it lol
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Same here!
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It doesn’t look like there is a Friends list for Wingspan. Anyone want to set up a game? I’m in as hardco.
Brass Birmingham is in early access on Steam.
I know nothing about the online multiplayer and whether it’s async or not.
Anybody know?
If it is, anybody up for a game? I’d like to do a First Impressions post about it.
Edit: It appears that it is async with a maximum of 24 hours for each turn. It also has private games with passwords. I’ve just set up a 4-player game with the password “testing”
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