The irony with your comment is that the main character is actually part of the actual cast of one of the most renowned pre-World cast AND one of the few characters to play a role in more than a single game.

Plus this is a doozy for fans of MH4U.

“Are they just attempting to break into the handheld market? ”

The fact some people like OP still don’t realize that it CAN support show the flaw of not including it in the base package.

“If it works for Sony and Microsoft...”
Personally though I’d rather have them do a traditional console instead of something that clearly seem so targeted at the Switch.

Handheld gaming felt like the last fucking place safe from the artificial performances horserace that’s driving so many studios into fucking burnout…

Otoh this article seem to confirm the Steam Deck, even at it’s base 400$, might be selling at a loss.
I.e.: taking a loss of profit to make their mark on the market which.... sounds a lot like what people kept accusing Epic Games Store of trying to do Steam.

Which honestly... considering how burnout and overwork seem to…

Plus, honestly this remind me of all the people shitting on Epic Games for purposefully taking the “losing money because we have money to burn until we can displace the opposition enough to establish ourselves” tactic against Steam and.... honestly looking at the form factor, this feel like Steam doing *exactly just…

How would you compare the performance to the components listed for this thing?
Kind of wondering how much of a profit(or loss) they would be making with that 399$ asking price(like, iirc, a 299$ Switch would barely make a 50$ profits and that’s with relatively weak/cheap components but this seem to claim to be more…

Yeah, people go all about how “this will run a game Switch can’t” and there’s definitely a lot of hardware it has more than a Switch but then there’s stuff like... display resolution that isn’t really higher than a Switch so while it can likely run more advanced shaders/etc I don’t exactly see this running as the…

“It won’t be for me as I want to play Steam on nice beefy computer or stream the games to TV through other means. Will it be successful for Steam? We’ll see eventually.”

Honestly I feel it’s the thing there. Plus the fact it’s (currently) sold exclusively through Steam rather than the kind of retailers deals and…

Honestly I wonder how “low cost” it is. Granted though it runs a resolution barely higher than the Switch so I could be overestimating the actual “horsepower” of this thing.

But for only 100$ more than a Switch yet claims of “can run the latest AAA games, and well”, I feel that’s not a huge price increase from the…

Definitely.
Though I wonder just how much of these consoles they intend to make. If it runs the kind of stuff it claims to be able to run.... I honestly wonder what the profit margin is with the 399$ model at all.

That’s a lot of (claimed) performances for such a small package and I recall the Switch’s performance was…

If it make any chance, every models DO influct a “fast microSD slot” but yeah.
I still can’t help but wonder how useful that will be though because most PC games... aren’t optimized with “small storage” in mind.
So I feel that even as “tiny storage plus microSD support” the Switch kind of pull it off because most…

Tbh how well this will do at all will also depend on how serious Valve are with this.
Like, Valve is a monolith on PC but to put it simply... a lot of their hardware efforts were lackluster.
And I’m not talking about the hardware itself.
I’m talking about marketing, distribution, presence on the retail market and so on.

P…

Honestly I have to give it this over Steam Machines however: it seems like it is an actual streamlined/standardized product compared to the laissez-faire “We’ll just give some specifications to third parties and let them manufacture it themselves” that I recall Steam Machines sounded like.

My worries are more regarding…

Honestly part of me wants the Steam Deck to be as good as advertised but part of me also has conflicted feeling.
Like even if it’s 100USD more than a 299$USD(2017-19 models) Switch... the thing about the Switch is it had to make a lot of sacrifice to even sell at a profit. So even with the higher prices... if it’s as…

Honestly this is the thing I’ve been musing about.

Like... sure, the Switch has a microSD slot.
But Switch games are ultimately optimized not for “32-64GB storage” but literally for “14-16GB storage” because that’s the size you can cram in a Switch cartridge. So that’s not a whole lot of size to sift through, especially…

microSD slot.
Now the question is how efficient it would be at running these which... I honestly dunno. Seems to work fine for Switch(but most Switch games are optimized for 14GB-ish cartridge and thus still need much less stuff to sift through I guess)

I guess I’ll see how this goes but there’s a couple of things I’m…

It seem to compensate with the use of a microSD slot like the Switch, at least.

I think the biggest worry for me is a bit twofold;
If it’s as good than it claims to be then my first worry is price: The Switch might be much less powerful, but I recall that at a 299$ pricetage it was running a profit margin of only…

Plus, there’s the matter that it runs the SteamOS and while it claims it can run the entire Steam library...
Linux compatible games may be more numerous than in the past, there’s still a lot out there which is Windows-only still I feel? So that claims feel... “okay, but what workarounds will players need to make for…