Steamdeck RIP switch

[Froggy]

What's battery life like?

[pilonv1]

Bought a steam deck off eBay, $1,150 512gb, local pickup . Lives not that far from me.

After playing around with the 64gb model and not having a lot of space I can see the benefit of a bigger one and just using SD cards. Still very happy with it, will just be happier when I can dump a bunch of PS2 roms on there

What's battery life like?

Depends what you're doing, anywhere from 90 mins to 3-4 hours from what I can tell.

[pilonv1]

Upgrading the SSD is comically easy on this. Have a full 1TB now and am installing all sorts of useless shit.

[flipswitch]

Haha. Me too. My little dock arrived today finally.
Have it sitting on my bedside table for easy access. .

I’ve been playing Dishonored which runs at a locked 60fps and feels incredibly responsive.

I’m a big fan of the design of the Deck.

Coming from the Switch, which cramps my hands and doesn’t feel right , the Deck on the other hand ( pardon the pun) fits perfectly in my hands.

I have nothing against the Switch ( besides the design ) it’s a great console with fantastic games.

Also playing The Witcher 3, again runs great and looks good. And I bought a bunch of games from the Steam sale including Shenmue I & II .

Team Fortress 2, probably my favourite online game is working fine and played plenty of online games.

The rest of the games installed are from my Steam library .

Absolutely so happy with it.

[pilonv1]

I might have to join you in TF2 sometime, haven't played it in ages but used to love it.

Installing Epic and EA App tonight. You can't get Game Pass working but if you have Ultimate you can get the EA games through EA app (F1 22!). Cloud streaming is fine but if there's a way I can play locally that's much better.

After this I'll probably set up an SD card with some roms, very keen to try some old Xbox games.

[Peppermint Lounge]

Have you guys tried connecting it to a TV?

[pilonv1]

Not yet because I'm too cheap to invest in a dock. I think the wife has a USB C connector thing for her MacBook Pro I guess I could try, but the power level doesn't to be worth using on a big screen.