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PK_Spam posted...

No, but itll definitely be a hit to Nintendos indie sales.

Potentially, but the higher price point is going to be a bit of a hard sell if somebody's just looking for a portable indie machine. For anyone with a decent existing indie library on Steam that only cares about that, it'll be the better option, but for anyone that cares at all about Nintendo's exclusive lineup, it's a much harder sell. That's especially true given that so many people (especially ones that care about portable indies) already have a Switch, in which case buying a Deck becomes even less reasonable.

Of Valve's attempted forays into pseduo-console gaming, I think this is one of their better ideas. The Link was held back by most home networks struggling to keep up with its bandwidth needs, resulting in input and display lag that made higher-end games pretty miserable to play. Steam Machines were held back by a general disdain for prebuilts among existing PC gamers and a price point higher than console gamers were comfortable with if they wanted to have something that could reliably run everything. This is priced reasonably and offers both portability and easy TV connectivity, which I can see being appealing, but the fact that it won't be able to handle every Steam game (and will likely struggle with higher-end games moving forward, making it mostly a BC/Indie machine) is going to hurt it a lot.

Revelation34 posted...

64 GB only means it won't succeed.

That's twice what the Switch has, natively, and it's doing just fine. Expanding memory as needed isn't particularly difficult.

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