What i've done is i turned many of my Steam games into physical cartridges. I bought fast enough sd card in bulk and put each game or series into seperate ones. Designed and 3d printed cartridges with writtwn names to make it easier to see which is which.
I have the Rog Ally now, for just over a week, and man, handheld PC gaming is amazing! It revitalizes the feeling of playing new games, but also older games that I never completed.
Games are games dude and we just want to be able to play when/where we can. As a dad, I know the struggle. I am on my Steam Deck quite a bit, though my Switch still gets time due to the backlog I have there. Going forward, portability with a good experience is what I need to have. I'm super stoked that the Steam Deck has treated you so well!
I love having my Desktop PC for multiplayer games and new games that are graphically intensive. I use my Steam Deck to chill to play my backlog of old AAA games or play indies. PC and Steam Deck is the perfect combo.
Your videos are great! As a fellow Dad I fell into similar issues last year! I have 3 kids. 2 teens and an almost 2 year old. I went from finishing on average 35 games a year down to 12 last year. Handheld gaming has become my go to along with my Ps5 after the little one goes to bed. I am currently waiting for my steam deck to arrive that I ordered over the weekend after selling my series x. I have a feeling I’ll end up in the same boat! Thanks for being helpful for all of us gamer Dads!
Thanks for the kind words. It's cool to see others like us out there getting after it in the wee hours of the sleepless nights or even in between soccer games. Keep crushing it fellow dad
I have a PC from 2017 that I used to game one all the time, but after being a dad I barely played any games. Steam deck brought me back to gaming and having my entire library of games from all these years is incredible. I am hoping the next steam deck that comes out has some support for an external GPU. Otherwise, OLED deck is the best gaming purchase I ever made
I love my steam deck oled I use it for emulating older games……emulating switch games and remote play my ps5 and series x I’m living the life through this handheld
Steam Deck is the greatest gaming device I’ve ever owned. I never been into PC gaming before. And I really haven’t been much of a console gamer since Gen 6 with Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube. Ever since I got a Sony Ericsson T616 in January 2004, I was more fascinated by phones by then. Then when iPhone came out in 2007 and I tried Android by Oct 2011, I got more fascinated by smartphones in general. Steam Deck brought me back into gaming. I did own a PS4 and Vita by 2017 after my hiatus with console gaming from 2008-2016. I did start running emulation on my Z Flip3 in 2021 or get my first Switch Lite in Oct 2022. But it’s the Steam Deck that really brought me back into gaming. I use it every day and I’d play a game for hours now. No more 15 minutes spurts. I really enjoy playing a game for a while on it in my car or on a couch. With phones now swapping places with gaming handhelds as being the far less interesting industry to follow, I’ve returned back to gaming because of it. Steam Deck really is a GAME-CHANGER. It’s the iPhone of PC handhelds with an affordable price like many Android alternatives and can be customizable like Android. ROG Ally Z1 Extreme and Legion Go would not be $700 and be double that price if Steam Deck never existed. We need to thank Valve for changing the PC handheld gaming industry forever. Steam Deck is a f-king great device! Loving my new black Tomtoc case for it. My brand new Switch Lite which is my fourth one I bought and I got only two weeks before the Steam Deck is currently not being used much because I want to play my Steam games far more. Why play a weak system like the Switch by this point? And Nintendo isn’t doing people any favors as of late with Yuzu and Citra coming to an end. I’m better off never having Nintendo getting my money ever again. Nintendo is perhaps the greatest game developer but Valve is a far better company to support. F Nintendo.
Ya i stopped gaming on my pc around 5 years ago. Takes up to much space and not enough time to play. When i heard about steam deck and how capable they are i bought a used one for 350 and it came with the steam deck dock. Having a large steam library already it was no problem picking up and playing. I never thought i would be gaming on a handheld but now i prefer it. the flexibility the performance and the ability to cast onto a tv like a console (when i habe to tv to myself) is amazing. One last thing that doesnt get talked enough about is the steam decks ability to press the power button and save the game in place, im not sure what that feature is called but its super useful for ahort bursts of gaming
I feel you brother... I started playing PC games but the only thing stopping me is when I am travelling I can't play any games.. My laptop is really heavy... I was always a fan of handheld consoles.. I was skeptical getting a steam deck but my wife bought me one and I can say that I've been crazy moding and playing around with my steam deck.
For me, I’ve been in PC Gaming for 10 years or so. The only issue with it is I work at a desk all day and I don’t want to sit at a desk for my relaxing time unless it’s something I really need my big PC for. The Steam Deck has brought me back to just relaxing in bed and playing a chill game. Also if you ever want to put emulators on it it’s fairly simple. So now I have my hundreds of games on steam as well as basically every game that came out before the Xbox One and PS4 which is insane
Being a pc gamer, for me, has always been about flexability. The pc handheld is a gamechanger for me and my workflow. Im glad its transformed yours in a positive way.
I’m so glad to see the steam deck show raw specs aren’t everything with PCs, it felt like it was going a bit of an unhealthy direction with everything getting so expensive and inaccessible
In a way the PC + Deck is what I really wish the Nintendo Switch was. I wish that I could play Tears of the Kingdom or Metroid Prime in 4k 120fps if I wanted to, while also letting me play the game portably if need be. That's essentially what PC + Deck is, you can play your games with maximum firepower on a big ass screen, or you can play them in your hands anywhere. And the only limit on the game's power at home is how much you're willing to spend on a PC. Most consoles only offer one or the other: the powerful (for consoles) home experience, or the very weak powered portable experience. Versatility is everything. And one last thing: building a really strong PC just made me completely uninterested in owning a PS5. Currently just waiting for Rebirth on Steam. People really don't undersell it: Steam just has a ridiculously high level of customer satisfaction. Easily higher than all three console manufacturers. I'll still buy Switch 2 for those Nintendo games but for everything else, there's Steam.
My RTX 4090 has been out for RMA for over a month now, so Ive been using my steamdeck to play Java Minecraft with a steam controller and my 1080p monitor at 60fps and when im on the go i just let vsync sit at 90fps. Its great being able to have such a seamless experience on games soo large.
I previously sold my original Steam Deck last year. I recently acquired the new Steam Deck OLED, and the comprehensive enhancements have significantly elevated the overall user experience, particularly with regard to battery life being to get more gaming time. OLED display is a wonder to look at.
My boy has a switch, I have ps4. Friends wanted Me to play sea of theives with them. Was looking at mini pc's to play it via xcloud with gamepass ultimate and discovered thr steamdeck. Figured y not go that route. I have not touched my ps4 for over a year other then remote ps4 over wifi to the steamdeck. The convenience of portability and also using it docked with controller or docked to monitor using in desktop mode is amazing. I have even rebought some ps4 games on steam. I have no regrets buying my steamdeck other then not waiting and getting the oled model. Lol
Loving my Steam Deck , Rog Ally , 3ds, GBA micro, PSP, Vita , and Switch .. Handheld gaming is the only way I game. Relax on my couch or bed is heavenly to me.
Playing the Nintendo waiting game also, maybe I will get back to zelda. I got maybe 80% on both of them and just burnt myself out in them and never returned. My switch has only been on the last month for the Contra demo, just to see how awful it was compared to the deck. Its playable, if you have never seen anything but the switch. Otherwise, from a PC perspective, it just holds a playable 30fps on low, 720p with everything turned off...like a PC from 2010. As for Steam and digital..my account is 17yrs old and I can download and play any game from my library with zero issues. Steam is a solid platform...no "eshop" shutdowns.
As a fellow content creator, father, nerd, this was awesome. I enjoyed how casual the conversation you chatting sharing your thoughts while making coffee. RUclips isn’t only for 6 minute videos. This was a good length. I enjoyed this format. Well done. Subscribed.
Ive amassed a massive steam collection; I got my PC for VR, also my roommates made one homemade and I thought it looked cool. At first I regretted spending so much money when I’m a controller guy anyway, but after realizing steam has basically every exclusive and no backwards compatibility problem I fell in love my PC. My PC burned out from bitcoin mining, I got a SD as a placeholder and haven’t put it down since, I LOVE it!
The Deck - what an amazing device ... The feel and comfort of it, the OLED HDR screen, the OS, the huge selection of great games ... Its just a brilliant product ...
I got my steam deck OLED I think most 3 weeks ago or whenever I filmed my unboxing video🤔, and I have not touched my OLED switch 😅. Not saying I don’t miss my switch for some games but I just love being able to play my PC games in bed. It’s the best 🥰.
I love the coffee routine and chill talk. I agree with everything you've said. I've been a PC gamer since halfway through the PS4's life because of being a dad and busy adult, and i haven't regretted it since then. And the Steam Deck makes it all the better.
Switch for anything Switch exclusive Steam Deck for everything else. I don't own a TV so 🤷🏻♀️ I started out with the black and white Gameboy went to a Gameboy color, then a GBA then the PS1, PS2, but then I stopped all console gaming and spent the next 18 years of my life on World of Warcraft. Then when the Animal Crossing Switch came out, I bought that and have been playing with it a lot and it definitely drew me out of being a PC gamer. However, the Steam Deck came out and I got it for my anniversary present last year and right back to the PC games, but mostly only if they work on the Steam Deck. Right now my big time sink game is Tears of the Kingdom so obviously playing it on my Switch however, the next game in the queue is Dark Souls, so we'll see how that works on the Steam Deck not to worried though. My husband is a solid PC gamer has a desktop sits at a gigantic desk in a shitty chair, I however, can't handle sitting at a desk for more than like an hour, and then I end up hating every minute. so I have always used laptops and my current one hasn't been touched (outside of playing V Rising with him for 2 months and only because I couldn't get it to work on the Steam Deck) in almost a year.
The casual dice roll for mug choice. Respect. I got this vid recommended to me because I'm currently circling a Steam Deck purchase. After buying a refurbished 2014 business PC from amazon 6 years ago now, to use as a retro game emulation "console", I found it to be perfectly suitable for actual PC gaming with a few upgrades over that span of time. It's hit it's limit of upgradability without just buying a whole new machine, yet it's still usable for a TON of my backlogged games that I bought from various online sites because digital's one saving grace is you can buy games for literal pocket change that are still $15 a Playstation disk. So I just treat it like a very cumbersome console that has way more functions. Aside from a few titles, I play everything with controller because I don't have a desk for KB&M (which I was never a fan of, anyway.) Like you, physical media will always have my heart when it comes to consoles. Even with digital stuff back on PS3, I set a budget for myself and refused to spend over a certain amount per game because I didn't want to validate a shift to digital media on consoles and I knew in a few years those could go, and on occasion HAVE GONE, _Poof_ out of existence by someone else's whim. I thank goodness I only spent about $15 total on Playstation Home in it's _entire_ run, and usually only the left over change in my PSN wallet. If I could buy a disk on PS5 over a download I would, and still occasionally do, because I like having options. I even frequent GoG for DRM free games because even if it's not a Steam game I know it's MINE (if it's just on a harddrive I can still transfer it elsewhere,) but I also can't keep paying $70 for AAA games. I refuse to. I look at Indie Steam titles and think, if I lost a game I bought for under $9 after some random controversy kills Valve in the future, I wouldn't feel that loss so bad. PC being what it is, someone would likely find a way to unlock the hundreds of cheap titles I amassed to still be played on a PC years from now, even if Steam _did_ go away. I still see myself as a console gamer, that hasn't changed, but the concept of a _console_ is changing. It's still ease of use, and the Steam Deck provides that. Regardless of my current feelings about the company, I'd be remiss in not crediting Nintendo for starting the idea of portable/dockable gaming device, but it's to their detriment when someone more likable and consumer friendly steps in front of them and does it _better._
My brother share your page with me through this video and it's my first video watching. This was refreshing as I'm a dad of three kids under the age of 10 and having time to de-stress with video games is very helpful for my mental state and the way you articulated your experience in this video alone I connect with. 👏🏾
I understand what you're saying completely about the cost of buying consoles. For the past two-three months, I've been thinking about switching over to PC gaming and at the beginning of July, I bought my first every Gaming Laptop. The laptop that I bought was just over $1500, but when you add up the price of an Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, plus accessories, I've spent around $1500, and that doesn't include the $600+ for the PSVR 2 headset. One last thing, 90% of the games that I have for the Xbox and PlayStation, are available on Steam.
Another thing I love about the steam deck is the heroic launcher and emudeck. I have quite a few games on GOG and I've also snagged the free titles from the epic games store over the past few years. I didn't realize how easy it would be to play those games on my steam deck until after I got the steam deck. My entire PC library and all my roms are playable in the steam Deck using game mode and that's truly amazing.
This video speaks to where I'm at with gaming. I Returned the Series X because of the uncertainty with the company loved the Series X btw. Currently I have a PlayStation 5 and supposedly that's what all my friends use. My problem is I can't decide where I'm going to be gaming long term and have a library. I don't want PlayStation to screw me 1 day and all the digital purchases I made would be a waste of money
1. no. 2. I dont have any games worth playing there that I can't play on the steamdeck. the rog ally acts as a full windows machine. so anything you can play on a windows machine you can play on an ally (within performance reason) @@iordaniskaravasilis
My Story as a Husband, Father and Gamer: Last year I owned every actual Console. And I feel some struggle. I doesn't know what it was. Than, my wife bought me a Steam Deck because she saw me always look Videos about it. And she k ows me well. If I'm into something, I spend a lot of time too check it. Since I use the first Steam Deck Model, I doesn't use the Series X and PS5 much. Than I decided too put the Consoles back into the packaging for 30 Days too look, if the Steam Deck as my primary device will make me happy. Than, I founded out, that i never missed the Xbox and PS5. I sold the two Consoles and since then, I play all games on the Deck. Than on the Oled Deck because I upgraded at launch. It was perfect. Now I'm completely into PC Gaming. So much, that I build a Gaming PC again after 12 Years. I love the convenience of playing all Games on PC and then on the Steam Deck on the go or in Bed with all my safestates. No subscription anymore. I love the decision too leave the Consoles and get fully too PC Gaming. It feels im free now. Sounds weird. But this is the right word for this. Cheers.
I have had a Steam account since 2005. That's 20 years of purchases, all still available to me. I have over a thousand games on Steam. All the physical media I owned 20 years ago is long destroyed or lost.
I can’t wait. I just got my 1tb oled steam deck today. I’m downloading a few games that I’ve got on steam (Hogwarts, Stray, Days Gone, and Doom eternal) I’m 48 and can’t wait to play even more on this amazing little machine. I waited for a refresh and to see how the Steam Deck would be supported. A lot of new games are optimized to run beautifully and it’s time to jump in both feet first…Subbed and Liked.
Love the steam deck. Got the oled at release, and i cant be happier. Ps5 remote play if i want to play that on SD, even streaming games from my gaming pc to deck just for the ability to relax on the couch. Emulation is a bonus. Heroic lancher. Chiaki, moonshine/sunshine. So many good things.
I went from a PS2 Slim to a Nintendo Switch OLED, so the Switch is the beefiest tech I have ever played on. I mostly want to play PS4 AAA games I missed out on like RDR2, Elden Ring, God of War, etc., would this be a good option? I LOVED your video on the Xbox Series S, and am on the fence on that as well, but as a dad of 3, portability is a huge must for me. Would love any insight!
The power of the Steam Deck is comparable to that of the PS4. When you think about it, it's really incredible. Many AAA games exclusive to the PS4 have been ported to PC and run perfectly on the Steam Deck.
Depending on your comfortability setting such a system up, and the network in your house, running a pc headless with moonlight/sunshine has been the saving grace for me as a new dad. I have my pc in a corner of the house with my router sitting on top of it, nothing else is plugged into it except power and ethernet. I run sunshine on the pc and if I want to play a high graphics game I connect to it from my steamdeck and play it that way. Else I play lighter games and games on the go on the steamdeck itself. I even tested games like CoD, Battlebit, halo, etc that require low latency and high fidelity and it is basically indistinguishable from playing the games locally once you have it set correctly. My study turned into my first sons bedroom. So like you mentioned I didn't have space to dedicate to a big gaming setup. I've still got my gaming monitor/kbm if I want to use that. But 99.9% handheld now.
I like the format ya got going on here, I'll definitely be back for more! I got my steam deck about two years ago, close to the exact day too. I've taken two breaks from it, but just like how you described it: it's flexible, so whenever I'm tied for time i pick it up and it rekindles my love for gaming. If it's not gonna be on deck, I ain't playing it either
As I get older, and still not letting gaming go. Being a family man I can say that gaming becomes a priority on the bottom of my list. Nevertheless, I find for me that the few hours I have to play I want to enjoy the experience. So I setup an gaming PC in my home/office space and a console on the TV, PS5 for the the exclusive games and better controllers. Got 4 controllers digital multiplayer kids friendly games and physical copies of single player or mature titles. Steam Deck I had as well realized that not all games run well and tinkering was also a time thief. This just another view for people like me. Your video is top notch for your situation. Have fun gaming either way.
Agreed. I have a ps5 collecting dust, and my wife plays Zelda on Switch, but basically only use Steam anymore. I got a PC, a SteamDeck and an Ally and can play most of my library on all of them. The saves automatically transfer. Makes it too easy
The sentiment is real. Stumbled my way here but this video is where I’m at in life. Bought a steam deck 5 weeks before the OLED announcement and it’s my best gaming purchase. It immediately made all the consoles I own irrelevant. The ease of access is just king as a dad. I think there will still be a reason to own consoles for myself. Not as my primary or even a secondary gaming device but more tertiary all things considered. Just there for my wife and kid to have something to also play on till I inevitably get a dock and can use the steam deck as the super switch.
"Steam Deck transformed the way I look at video games" totally agree. I just think it's so cool we can play all of our favorite games (new and old) wherever we want + emulation + having a tiny PC to mess around.
Love too see love for Linux gaming, I installed steam os 3 interface on my computer, via ChimeraOs, and yeah it changed my gaming forever, its so easy i dont use my Xbox anymore
Thanks for a great video as always. I really feel like I need to get my hands on a Steam Deck even though I have all 3 major consoles. It serves it's own purpose in a way you know. I also think the "try for up to 2 hours and refund if you don't like it" is such a great service offered on Steam that makes it even more appealing
From a person who switched from consoles to pc. Is totally worth it. If i was in your position i would sell all my consoles(maybe keep the switch) and build a gaming pc and i recommend you build it yourself,its a great experience.
Glad to see you come on board. I was a bit turned off your content a few months ago. You seemed like a giant Nintendo guy and while I enjoy them, have a switch, and have nostalgia for their early consoles-they’re not a big deal to me these days. I remember you getting rid of your first steamdeck and being surprised because alongside my PS5, it was my favorite device. It fills so many needs-emulation, future proofing for game library, portability, and access to titles. I’m glad you’re seeing how much value it offers and I’m in the same boat of leaning toward getting a gaming rig. Feels like a long time coming after being a console gamer my whole life. Good stuff and keep up the quality content, brother!
I went with the GPD Win Max 2 with the GPD G1 dock/EGPU. On the go its powerful enough, and has the build in keyboard making it usable with windows. If I plug it in the G1 one, because of the external video card in there, it functions fine as a medium powered gaming pc, playing 1440p games at 60 fps at least. I also have a big pc with a 12900k I9 processor and a 3080 geforce video card, but I find I only use that for really heavy games with raytracing etc.
I am debating between the Rog Ally and the Steam Deck, the former has more power and the latter has trackpads (plus a huge community). Probably in the end will go for the OLED deck. Still thinking. (Need to search how to get my GOG library running on the Steam Deck though).
@@jdxcoffee Valve is currently working on porting Steam OS to other portable PCs, such as ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and others. Perhaps Steam OS, with its quasi-console-like experience, could improve your impressions of these devices. In the future, Valve wants Steam OS to be able to run anywhere. They are working on this right now. Steam OS is already significantly superior to Windows. It consumes less energy and resources while in the background, extending battery life and improving performance.
as someone a bit younger who grew up with the DS and loved how social that whole experience was (Picto Chat and Mario Kart or Pokemon went wild in the school bus or on car rides), I was really hoping the Switch to be that again with it's detachable controllers, but it just wasn't. I never really ended up sharing the small controllers, and with how expensive the games are I usually only had the biggest releases, not great for just showing to someone for a short time. I gradually moved to PC over the years as I needed a machine to edit videos for school, and after a few upgrades since 2016, and a shit ton of game bundles, steam sales and incredible game deals, getting my Steam Deck LCD in 2023 just made sense. It works with pretty much any controller under the sun, and is small enough to bring around. Not only do I have the Deck available if the Metro is down for a while, for example, but I also can also bring it around when seeing friends to be able to show them my favorite games and share the experience. The Steam Deck feels very social in that way where I can play any of my favorite games and not have to stay confined to my desk, as you said, and whenever the next Deck comes out, all the games I own will already be compatible. It just removes a significant part of the hassle, which might not always be better, I'll definitely still use my desktop computer, but in a hobby all about options and choice like PC gaming usually is, now being able to choose to play at the park or in bed if I want to feels like a breath of fresh air.
Nice video, man. Just got my Steam Deck Oled and I love it so far. It feels really comfortable and the joysticks feel nice. Would you still recommend this over the Asus Rog Ally? My only hang up is the better “power” of the RogAlly to run graphically intensive games despite the poor battery life.
I the Series X, the PS5, a PC and the Steamdeck. The Steamdeck is without a doubt the best companion hardware that exists out there. The fact that it can play both Sony and Microsoft exclusives, all of my Steam library + other launchers with tweaks (Blizzard, Epic, EA, Ubi), emulate pretty much anything (tho PS3 and Xbox 360 is much more demanding), allow me to stream my games from my PS5 and Series X with tweaks AND that it doubles as a desktop while docked and I can actually get work done, is nothing short of extraordinary. I also love the fact that it encouraged me to pickup games I wouldnt necessarily played like plateformers and stuff, and that I can just play something for 20 min, put it on sleep, come back a week later and pick my game back up from where I left it.
You never really mentioned remote play as an option to cover your bases. I got a PC and PS5 and I set up my Steam deck with chiaki4deck and now my Steam Deck can play my ps5 remotely , and I can use Steam’s remote play to play my pc games on the big screen too, portability is a blessing with the deck.
I don’t have a steam deck but one of those Abxylute handhelds and it was a complete game changer for me being a dad as well. I’m gaming more than I have in recent years,also being able to get GFN 🤯.
I love my OG 64GB steam deck and love to hear people's views on the device. I know it's not the most powerful but there are so many benefits of steam OS vs Windows. I am currently playing through FF7 Remake on deck and it plays great. Can't wait for a steam deck 2. I just want to run games at 60fps with higher quality shaders, being able to play 1080p native docked at 60fps would be great too
I have a good gaming rig (i7, rtx3080, 64gb ram, 4tb ssd) and a Steam Deck OLED. Life is good! :) Sharing savegames between PC (Steam) and Steam Deck is a godsent! Also PC Supports Ultrawide monitors and once you try ultrawide gaming you don't want to go back to just 16:9. Playing Red Dead Redemption 2, Witcher3 etc. on a 21:9 display is AWESOME! Used to be a console gamer but I'm not going back.
@@jdxcoffeetotally - hands down the steam deck OLED is better. I have some non gaming use cases for the Legion. For non power users / people who like to tinker steam deck is a no brainer.
Great video man! The steam deck really takes it to the next level, it even goes one step further with emulation! I've been playing the old god of war and even BOTW on my deck
To me it's probably one the coolest things, is how portable the Deck is BUT, anytime I want to connect the Deck to my 50" Samsung tv using a dock, plus a DS4 controller and I have the same console experience....Without having to deal with subscription scams from actual consoles
I can relate. I sold my PS5 and Series X. I wanted freedom. I built a PC. Now the only thing I'm waiting on now is re-vamped version of Windows for handheld PCs. I want full compatibility between my PC and a handheld PC. Steam Deck OLED is the best of the lot right now imo. However, if Microsoft builds a more friendly version of Windows for handheld coupled with Asus putting out the next iteration of the Ally. I think we have strong case there.
Man, I can't recommend you the gaming PC + Steam Deck combo enough. I am currently playing Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, during the day I use my Deck and in the night I continue where I left of in the PC. You can also stream your PC games to the Deck, and I do that while docked on my TV, which for more graphics required games, it's perfect. I know PC gaming sounds expensive, but with the sales/deals and no need to pay for a subscription to play online, it feels better. I made the jump from Xbox One/PS4 to PC, and man it's been amazing. Now with the Deck, it's perfect. Steam and GOG are also very consumer friendly, way more than Xbox, PS or Nintendo in my opinion.
I have a switch. I got the lite first as I thought I never get time to play on tv with kids etc, then got the switch v2 . It did me well for around 3.5 years until I ran out of games I wanted to play. Last December I decided to get a steam deck oled as the trailer looked good and my issue with getting a steam deck was always the battery . But with the improvements , I got one . Love it . Playing deus ex human revolution, Detroit , enslaved , halo master chief collection , plague tale , chorus - all the sort of games I was playing pre kids and marriage (2013) . It’s been amazing !! Still play my switch as now my eldest (6) is interested . So we played Mario odyssey and Kirby. So… now steam deck oled is my main way to play my dad games , and switch to play with my son
Thats such a rad story man. I love reading about how families play together. I too shared gaming with my dad as a lot of my other friends have with theirs. great thing to share
I’ve had my steam deck oled for less than a week and I’ve been gaming more than i have before in recent months it’s been great and it’s like my Xbox was portable quite powerful for what it is and I’ve been very satisfied with the purchase and I get more games than what I could get on my switch and I’ve already picked up a free to keep game from a promotion on steam. But overall as a dad this device has been my best purchase and I only have my wife to thank bc she is the one who pointed it out to me and a she doesn’t really even play games she just saw the one her uncle had and said that I need to get one and so i did
I recently built my ITX PC. It is a water cooled Ryzen 7 5800 X and a 7800 XT and the full build cost me a little over 1k. The great thing is you can buy all these parts individually when you have the money. It took me almost a year to get all of the parts but I built it. You can build one too if you are patient and we would love to have you in the community!
Also you can stream your gaming PC to your steam deck via remote play and its amazing. Push past the fear and build a PC yourself. It not as hard as you are making it in your head. You got this!
I'm a work from home dog dad with a wife who works in the hospital in med school. I used to be function off of Nintendo and Sony as my main consoles until around the PS4 and Switch generation I realized the consoles themselves were aging faster than the games trying to come out. I am a bit of a framerate snob and if the game has less than 45fps I want nothing to do with it. Built a PC in 2019 before the prices ballooned and have been using Steam as my main gaming library. Over time I learned that while I enjoy the ridiculous processing power of my PC that I've upgraded it is unfortunately tied to one spot in the apartment and it involves me to disassociate from my wife when she is at home (she likes to be around me to spectate or listen to the games I play in the background while she studies) The steam deck has since triggered a change I didn't realize I always needed. I had always been a fan of portables between Nintendo consoles, the PSP, and PS Vita - but those devices were always noticeably behind in power and ability compared to their modern console brothers. The idea of a portable PC didn't make sense to me because it always sound like I would need to invest into a laptop if I want to play my games somewhere else by which I was okay telling myself I can wait until I am home to play games. Christmas of 2022 hits and my wife got me the steam deck, she knew steam was my main library and that I used to use my switch as my go to handheld when we hang in the living room or visit in laws back home. I was skeptical at first but was surprised to see how quickly my library of indie games, retro games, emulated games, and Double A titles had me playing my steam deck more than my PC. Nowadays I am on my PC if my wife isn't home and have to remind myself to use it every now and then so I don't let it gather too much dust. The OLED model after having had the first model was the cherry on top. They improved so much in so many marginal ways it just feels nice to be a consumer and not feel shafted in some way for once in over like 7 years with this age of modern gaming.
To me the biggest positive for the Steam Deck has been the portability. Even sacrificing some of the visuals for me has been an easy choice because I don’t want to sit at a location any longer than I need to and the steam deck gives me that freedom!
Same experience for me, as a father of a two year old girl. Indie titles or older triple A games are perfect for the steam deck you can Interrupt anytime. Playstation 5 just for demandimg triple a games i really want to play
PC gaming has always been the better experience. It's much easier these days than in the 90's when a lot of tweaking was often necessary. Luckily, since 2003/4 I've been buying games off Steam so my catalog is pretty extensive. Not huge but I also console game so.... But with the remote play on Xbox and PlayStation now, I don't even need to be near them. I love the flexibility it brings.
In 2008, I bought games on Steam, Wii, PS3, PSP, and XBox 360. Today, I can go into a Best Buy, and buy a budget laptop and any controller I want, a PS5, an XBox Series X, and a Switch. Of the games I bought back in 2008, I can't play any of them on any console other than a tiny, tiny fraction that I get to buy again or rent/stream (yay!) or hope made it onto XBox's backward compatibility list before that program was ended. I can play every Steam game I bought back then on the budget laptop, and I can do it better than I could on the $3000 gaming rig I bought them on. Also, I don't have space for physical media, and I definitely don't have space for every console with games I really want to play. PC has the well-known issues, for sure. But the Steam Deck coming out at a time when every major console manufacturer is closing the doors on digital shops that people paid good money for games on, and games themselves getting more expensive, it makes spending money on the current consoles that much more painful. Buying them on Steam feels more like an investment because I have such high confidence that I'm going to be able to play those games from 2008 in 2028 on whatever's in stores that year. The consoles have given us backward compatibility from time to time, but it's never lasted more than 2 generations. And FFS why do they make it so damn painful to use multiple devices??? Not a problem on Steam.
I've stumbled across a operating system for general use PCS that turns a desktop PC into a steam deck like experience. As long as your PC has an AMD GPU you can use Bazzite and it will boot straight into game mode just like the steam deck does and has a KDE desktop
I have the legion go and since you return it it has gotten better still a working in progress I haven’t tried out steam deck yet but I want to try it I chose the Go over the Deck because a lot of games I like to play isn’t available on it with having to do extra stuff to get it. Honestly I love my Go since I had it I’ve been gaming I can just sit in my living room with the Fam or in the bed and interact without having to be in the man cave away
You haven't dived into the full controlling features that Ste Deck offers, you'll find out that a Steam Deck is the best controller you can get on the market. Also the 1-2 punch of a PC rig + Steam Deck, build your WiFi network solid and you can stream all your games from your rig to the Steam Deck at max fidelity.
Steam is also great in terms of games that get taken down from steam for whatever reason. I have Rocket League and Ballistic Overkill, both games are no longer available on Steam but they remain in my account and I can still download and install them from Steam regardless since I had them before they got taken down
For me the killer feature is suspend/resume. There is no operative system with such perfect suspend/resume smoothness. Its like a switch but with PC games. For example, I am playing days gone right now. I keep the game suspended and I continue the story when I have time. I can be a casual-hardcore gamer at the same time. Casual in sesion time but hardcore in the hearth.
What's super cool about Steam Deck and other handhelds like it: It lowers the floor of cost of the price of entering PC gaming. On top of that, they really lower the expectations of what we find acceptable for "Graphics" and performance in pc games. No more rushing out to get a RTX 4090 because comfortability overrules being chained to the desktop.
Kinda related to the topic, I have been a returning online player of FromSoftware games. All my trophies and time investment has been spent on PlayStation. With the recent PS Plus price hike and Elden Ring being the only online game I am active in, it comes into question whether or not I should renew PS Plus when it expires to engage with one game. Elden Ring + SOTET is $80 on Steam, the same cost as the basic PS Plus tier. Though PS5 is better for my needs it is still making me question where I will be investing my time and money in the future. If PlayStation were to go all digital I am not sure I'd be paying $80 or more for online anymore. I like my Steam Deck but I primarly use it as a legacy/Falcom device or for anything not ported to consoles yet. I did dabble in FFXIV on it and put in 170hrs, so I could see the appeal of not being tehtered to a desk or couch. I am also playing Rebirth, currently at the 30hr mark and just started chapter 6, the game is massive. I haven't played a game thats made me smile or laugh this much since Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but just like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I'll will likely be crying at the end of Rebirth.
I have a decent gaming pc had it for a few years, before in the Uk I had another pc that was just as good which I sold to a friend before leaving as I knew it would be a pain to take to Singapore where i was moving. Now I am moving from Singapore to hopefully move to Bali and I just haven’t been able to play on my pc much. So I was considering selling my pc to get a deck as I could always buy a dock and use my wireless keyboard to use it as a desktop if I needed to work on documents or anything. Only thing stopping me is Singapore is one of the places still not getting full support or sent steam decks by valve. Instead if you want to get a deck you have to be prepared to pay a marked up price because the person or store you are buying from had to pay fees to get it available to sell for them. Which seems kinda bad I mean ok you had to pay fees but you are then forcing your customer to pay it with interest so you make profit… it would maybe be easier to accept if it was around $300 but even a 512gb oled is $950 or more and the 1TB might as well be $1400
People are still rocking a GeForce 1070. You don’t have to constantly upgrade where as you do have to eventually buy that next gen console. I had my gaming rig with i5 gen 8 cpu and a 2070 for more then5 years and the only reason why I’m building a new rig is because I want to do more demanding things on my pc then just gaming. I don’t have to upgrade the pc plays most if not everything at 60 + frames 1080p. That stigma of having to constantly upgrade is incorrect for most people.
18:00 I agree with you! We keep getting all these new games, but they can't be ran on the 7 year old switch hardware. And we're stuck waiting on them to make new hardware for them to hopefully eventually release the game on their system. Sometimes, it can take years for a game to even be announced that it's going to be available on their hardware. Their library is almost too exclusive. Which takes the appeal away for me. For example, take Party Animals. The game could easily run on the switch, but guess what! You can't play it "yet"!
The Deck has re ignited my passion for just “playing games” and allows me to be present which is the most important thing for me
I agree
E Tolle approves!
Compared to playing on pc or consoles?
@@HenriqueHermanny both, everything is in my office tho which is tucked in the back of the house
Same bro same!!
What i've done is i turned many of my Steam games into physical cartridges. I bought fast enough sd card in bulk and put each game or series into seperate ones. Designed and 3d printed cartridges with writtwn names to make it easier to see which is which.
I love this idea! Thanks for sharing
wow that's cool!
can you let me know the cartridges you printed up?
I have the Rog Ally now, for just over a week, and man, handheld PC gaming is amazing! It revitalizes the feeling of playing new games, but also older games that I never completed.
It's the future for me and my play style
if it ever sucks, install chimera or bazzite os
Games are games dude and we just want to be able to play when/where we can. As a dad, I know the struggle. I am on my Steam Deck quite a bit, though my Switch still gets time due to the backlog I have there. Going forward, portability with a good experience is what I need to have. I'm super stoked that the Steam Deck has treated you so well!
I love having my Desktop PC for multiplayer games and new games that are graphically intensive. I use my Steam Deck to chill to play my backlog of old AAA games or play indies. PC and Steam Deck is the perfect combo.
Your videos are great! As a fellow Dad I fell into similar issues last year! I have 3 kids. 2 teens and an almost 2 year old. I went from finishing on average 35 games a year down to 12 last year. Handheld gaming has become my go to along with my Ps5 after the little one goes to bed. I am currently waiting for my steam deck to arrive that I ordered over the weekend after selling my series x. I have a feeling I’ll end up in the same boat! Thanks for being helpful for all of us gamer Dads!
Thanks for the kind words. It's cool to see others like us out there getting after it in the wee hours of the sleepless nights or even in between soccer games. Keep crushing it fellow dad
I have a PC from 2017 that I used to game one all the time, but after being a dad I barely played any games.
Steam deck brought me back to gaming and having my entire library of games from all these years is incredible.
I am hoping the next steam deck that comes out has some support for an external GPU.
Otherwise, OLED deck is the best gaming purchase I ever made
I love my steam deck oled I use it for emulating older games……emulating switch games and remote play my ps5 and series x I’m living the life through this handheld
Well... yuzu just lost the lawsuit 😢
And 2 new emulators have taken its place already. Yuzu being open source paid off for emulation
@@iFlxy it’s cool it still works on my steam deck so I have nothing to worry about until a new ones pops up 🤷🏾♂️
Steam Deck is the greatest gaming device I’ve ever owned. I never been into PC gaming before. And I really haven’t been much of a console gamer since Gen 6 with Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube. Ever since I got a Sony Ericsson T616 in January 2004, I was more fascinated by phones by then. Then when iPhone came out in 2007 and I tried Android by Oct 2011, I got more fascinated by smartphones in general.
Steam Deck brought me back into gaming. I did own a PS4 and Vita by 2017 after my hiatus with console gaming from 2008-2016. I did start running emulation on my Z Flip3 in 2021 or get my first Switch Lite in Oct 2022. But it’s the Steam Deck that really brought me back into gaming. I use it every day and I’d play a game for hours now. No more 15 minutes spurts. I really enjoy playing a game for a while on it in my car or on a couch.
With phones now swapping places with gaming handhelds as being the far less interesting industry to follow, I’ve returned back to gaming because of it. Steam Deck really is a GAME-CHANGER. It’s the iPhone of PC handhelds with an affordable price like many Android alternatives and can be customizable like Android. ROG Ally Z1 Extreme and Legion Go would not be $700 and be double that price if Steam Deck never existed. We need to thank Valve for changing the PC handheld gaming industry forever.
Steam Deck is a f-king great device! Loving my new black Tomtoc case for it. My brand new Switch Lite which is my fourth one I bought and I got only two weeks before the Steam Deck is currently not being used much because I want to play my Steam games far more. Why play a weak system like the Switch by this point? And Nintendo isn’t doing people any favors as of late with Yuzu and Citra coming to an end.
I’m better off never having Nintendo getting my money ever again. Nintendo is perhaps the greatest game developer but Valve is a far better company to support. F Nintendo.
Ya i stopped gaming on my pc around 5 years ago. Takes up to much space and not enough time to play. When i heard about steam deck and how capable they are i bought a used one for 350 and it came with the steam deck dock. Having a large steam library already it was no problem picking up and playing. I never thought i would be gaming on a handheld but now i prefer it. the flexibility the performance and the ability to cast onto a tv like a console (when i habe to tv to myself) is amazing.
One last thing that doesnt get talked enough about is the steam decks ability to press the power button and save the game in place, im not sure what that feature is called but its super useful for ahort bursts of gaming
It is one of the best features in my opinion
I feel you brother... I started playing PC games but the only thing stopping me is when I am travelling I can't play any games.. My laptop is really heavy... I was always a fan of handheld consoles.. I was skeptical getting a steam deck but my wife bought me one and I can say that I've been crazy moding and playing around with my steam deck.
For me, I’ve been in PC Gaming for 10 years or so. The only issue with it is I work at a desk all day and I don’t want to sit at a desk for my relaxing time unless it’s something I really need my big PC for. The Steam Deck has brought me back to just relaxing in bed and playing a chill game. Also if you ever want to put emulators on it it’s fairly simple. So now I have my hundreds of games on steam as well as basically every game that came out before the Xbox One and PS4 which is insane
Being a pc gamer, for me, has always been about flexability.
The pc handheld is a gamechanger for me and my workflow. Im glad its transformed yours in a positive way.
I’m so glad to see the steam deck show raw specs aren’t everything with PCs, it felt like it was going a bit of an unhealthy direction with everything getting so expensive and inaccessible
In a way the PC + Deck is what I really wish the Nintendo Switch was. I wish that I could play Tears of the Kingdom or Metroid Prime in 4k 120fps if I wanted to, while also letting me play the game portably if need be. That's essentially what PC + Deck is, you can play your games with maximum firepower on a big ass screen, or you can play them in your hands anywhere. And the only limit on the game's power at home is how much you're willing to spend on a PC. Most consoles only offer one or the other: the powerful (for consoles) home experience, or the very weak powered portable experience. Versatility is everything.
And one last thing: building a really strong PC just made me completely uninterested in owning a PS5. Currently just waiting for Rebirth on Steam. People really don't undersell it: Steam just has a ridiculously high level of customer satisfaction. Easily higher than all three console manufacturers. I'll still buy Switch 2 for those Nintendo games but for everything else, there's Steam.
Dude, never stop making coffee, I absolute love this routine and may start doing it myself 🙌
heck yea man. At this point its a staple
I started making my coffee this way and ditched my plastic coffee maker.
My RTX 4090 has been out for RMA for over a month now, so Ive been using my steamdeck to play Java Minecraft with a steam controller and my 1080p monitor at 60fps and when im on the go i just let vsync sit at 90fps. Its great being able to have such a seamless experience on games soo large.
I previously sold my original Steam Deck last year. I recently acquired the new Steam Deck OLED, and the comprehensive enhancements have significantly elevated the overall user experience, particularly with regard to battery life being to get more gaming time.
OLED display is a wonder to look at.
My boy has a switch, I have ps4. Friends wanted Me to play sea of theives with them. Was looking at mini pc's to play it via xcloud with gamepass ultimate and discovered thr steamdeck. Figured y not go that route. I have not touched my ps4 for over a year other then remote ps4 over wifi to the steamdeck. The convenience of portability and also using it docked with controller or docked to monitor using in desktop mode is amazing. I have even rebought some ps4 games on steam. I have no regrets buying my steamdeck other then not waiting and getting the oled model. Lol
Loving my Steam Deck , Rog Ally , 3ds, GBA micro, PSP, Vita , and Switch .. Handheld gaming is the only way I game. Relax on my couch or bed is heavenly to me.
HECK YEA. Flexible Location gaming
Playing the Nintendo waiting game also, maybe I will get back to zelda. I got maybe 80% on both of them and just burnt myself out in them and never returned. My switch has only been on the last month for the Contra demo, just to see how awful it was compared to the deck. Its playable, if you have never seen anything but the switch. Otherwise, from a PC perspective, it just holds a playable 30fps on low, 720p with everything turned off...like a PC from 2010. As for Steam and digital..my account is 17yrs old and I can download and play any game from my library with zero issues. Steam is a solid platform...no "eshop" shutdowns.
As a fellow content creator, father, nerd, this was awesome.
I enjoyed how casual the conversation you chatting sharing your thoughts while making coffee.
RUclips isn’t only for 6 minute videos. This was a good length.
I enjoyed this format. Well done. Subscribed.
BRO. thank you. I really feel like fitting into the "hype box" isn't for me. I would rather just sit back and chill with everyone about this
It's such a refreshing format; very enjoyable.
Ive amassed a massive steam collection; I got my PC for VR, also my roommates made one homemade and I thought it looked cool. At first I regretted spending so much money when I’m a controller guy anyway, but after realizing steam has basically every exclusive and no backwards compatibility problem I fell in love my PC. My PC burned out from bitcoin mining, I got a SD as a placeholder and haven’t put it down since, I LOVE it!
The Deck - what an amazing device ... The feel and comfort of it, the OLED HDR screen, the OS, the huge selection of great games ... Its just a brilliant product ...
I got my steam deck OLED I think most 3 weeks ago or whenever I filmed my unboxing video🤔, and I have not touched my OLED switch 😅. Not saying I don’t miss my switch for some games but I just love being able to play my PC games in bed. It’s the best 🥰.
I love the coffee routine and chill talk. I agree with everything you've said. I've been a PC gamer since halfway through the PS4's life because of being a dad and busy adult, and i haven't regretted it since then. And the Steam Deck makes it all the better.
Switch for anything Switch exclusive Steam Deck for everything else. I don't own a TV so 🤷🏻♀️ I started out with the black and white Gameboy went to a Gameboy color, then a GBA then the PS1, PS2, but then I stopped all console gaming and spent the next 18 years of my life on World of Warcraft. Then when the Animal Crossing Switch came out, I bought that and have been playing with it a lot and it definitely drew me out of being a PC gamer. However, the Steam Deck came out and I got it for my anniversary present last year and right back to the PC games, but mostly only if they work on the Steam Deck. Right now my big time sink game is Tears of the Kingdom so obviously playing it on my Switch however, the next game in the queue is Dark Souls, so we'll see how that works on the Steam Deck not to worried though.
My husband is a solid PC gamer has a desktop sits at a gigantic desk in a shitty chair, I however, can't handle sitting at a desk for more than like an hour, and then I end up hating every minute. so I have always used laptops and my current one hasn't been touched (outside of playing V Rising with him for 2 months and only because I couldn't get it to work on the Steam Deck) in almost a year.
The casual dice roll for mug choice. Respect. I got this vid recommended to me because I'm currently circling a Steam Deck purchase. After buying a refurbished 2014 business PC from amazon 6 years ago now, to use as a retro game emulation "console", I found it to be perfectly suitable for actual PC gaming with a few upgrades over that span of time. It's hit it's limit of upgradability without just buying a whole new machine, yet it's still usable for a TON of my backlogged games that I bought from various online sites because digital's one saving grace is you can buy games for literal pocket change that are still $15 a Playstation disk. So I just treat it like a very cumbersome console that has way more functions. Aside from a few titles, I play everything with controller because I don't have a desk for KB&M (which I was never a fan of, anyway.)
Like you, physical media will always have my heart when it comes to consoles. Even with digital stuff back on PS3, I set a budget for myself and refused to spend over a certain amount per game because I didn't want to validate a shift to digital media on consoles and I knew in a few years those could go, and on occasion HAVE GONE, _Poof_ out of existence by someone else's whim. I thank goodness I only spent about $15 total on Playstation Home in it's _entire_ run, and usually only the left over change in my PSN wallet. If I could buy a disk on PS5 over a download I would, and still occasionally do, because I like having options. I even frequent GoG for DRM free games because even if it's not a Steam game I know it's MINE (if it's just on a harddrive I can still transfer it elsewhere,) but I also can't keep paying $70 for AAA games. I refuse to. I look at Indie Steam titles and think, if I lost a game I bought for under $9 after some random controversy kills Valve in the future, I wouldn't feel that loss so bad. PC being what it is, someone would likely find a way to unlock the hundreds of cheap titles I amassed to still be played on a PC years from now, even if Steam _did_ go away. I still see myself as a console gamer, that hasn't changed, but the concept of a _console_ is changing. It's still ease of use, and the Steam Deck provides that.
Regardless of my current feelings about the company, I'd be remiss in not crediting Nintendo for starting the idea of portable/dockable gaming device, but it's to their detriment when someone more likable and consumer friendly steps in front of them and does it _better._
My brother share your page with me through this video and it's my first video watching. This was refreshing as I'm a dad of three kids under the age of 10 and having time to de-stress with video games is very helpful for my mental state and the way you articulated your experience in this video alone I connect with. 👏🏾
I understand what you're saying completely about the cost of buying consoles. For the past two-three months, I've been thinking about switching over to PC gaming and at the beginning of July, I bought my first every Gaming Laptop. The laptop that I bought was just over $1500, but when you add up the price of an Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5, plus accessories, I've spent around $1500, and that doesn't include the $600+ for the PSVR 2 headset. One last thing, 90% of the games that I have for the Xbox and PlayStation, are available on Steam.
love ur videos
coz of u i went and made my xbox series s portable
and enjoy my oled steam deck
love the portable handheld experiences
It is game changing for sure
Another thing I love about the steam deck is the heroic launcher and emudeck. I have quite a few games on GOG and I've also snagged the free titles from the epic games store over the past few years. I didn't realize how easy it would be to play those games on my steam deck until after I got the steam deck. My entire PC library and all my roms are playable in the steam Deck using game mode and that's truly amazing.
This video speaks to where I'm at with gaming. I Returned the Series X because of the uncertainty with the company loved the Series X btw. Currently I have a PlayStation 5 and supposedly that's what all my friends use. My problem is I can't decide where I'm going to be gaming long term and have a library. I don't want PlayStation to screw me 1 day and all the digital purchases I made would be a waste of money
Yea that is where I am at. Sony and Nintendo are 99% Physical only. All digital is on steam moving forward
@caffeineandconsoles 1. Are you still gonna be gaming on the Xbox
2. Can I play against friends on a ROG Ally ?
1. no. 2. I dont have any games worth playing there that I can't play on the steamdeck. the rog ally acts as a full windows machine. so anything you can play on a windows machine you can play on an ally (within performance reason)
@@iordaniskaravasilis
Subscribed. I got lost in you making that coffee. Lol.
I got lost in drinking it hahah
My Story as a Husband, Father and Gamer: Last year I owned every actual Console. And I feel some struggle. I doesn't know what it was. Than, my wife bought me a Steam Deck because she saw me always look Videos about it. And she k ows me well. If I'm into something, I spend a lot of time too check it. Since I use the first Steam Deck Model, I doesn't use the Series X and PS5 much. Than I decided too put the Consoles back into the packaging for 30 Days too look, if the Steam Deck as my primary device will make me happy. Than, I founded out, that i never missed the Xbox and PS5. I sold the two Consoles and since then, I play all games on the Deck. Than on the Oled Deck because I upgraded at launch. It was perfect. Now I'm completely into PC Gaming. So much, that I build a Gaming PC again after 12 Years. I love the convenience of playing all Games on PC and then on the Steam Deck on the go or in Bed with all my safestates. No subscription anymore. I love the decision too leave the Consoles and get fully too PC Gaming. It feels im free now. Sounds weird. But this is the right word for this. Cheers.
The steam deck is my first introduction to PC gaming and absolutely love the steam deck so much so that I haven’t been playing my PlayStation 5
I have had a Steam account since 2005. That's 20 years of purchases, all still available to me. I have over a thousand games on Steam. All the physical media I owned 20 years ago is long destroyed or lost.
I can’t wait. I just got my 1tb oled steam deck today. I’m downloading a few games that I’ve got on steam (Hogwarts, Stray, Days Gone, and Doom eternal) I’m 48 and can’t wait to play even more on this amazing little machine. I waited for a refresh and to see how the Steam Deck would be supported. A lot of new games are optimized to run beautifully and it’s time to jump in both feet first…Subbed and Liked.
My, man. I have a completely customized Deck, and I brew my own coffee on a Chemex. Instant sub.
That is the one brew method I haven't spent a ton of time using
Love the steam deck. Got the oled at release, and i cant be happier. Ps5 remote play if i want to play that on SD, even streaming games from my gaming pc to deck just for the ability to relax on the couch. Emulation is a bonus. Heroic lancher. Chiaki, moonshine/sunshine. So many good things.
I went from a PS2 Slim to a Nintendo Switch OLED, so the Switch is the beefiest tech I have ever played on. I mostly want to play PS4 AAA games I missed out on like RDR2, Elden Ring, God of War, etc., would this be a good option? I LOVED your video on the Xbox Series S, and am on the fence on that as well, but as a dad of 3, portability is a huge must for me. Would love any insight!
The power of the Steam Deck is comparable to that of the PS4. When you think about it, it's really incredible. Many AAA games exclusive to the PS4 have been ported to PC and run perfectly on the Steam Deck.
Depending on your comfortability setting such a system up, and the network in your house, running a pc headless with moonlight/sunshine has been the saving grace for me as a new dad.
I have my pc in a corner of the house with my router sitting on top of it, nothing else is plugged into it except power and ethernet. I run sunshine on the pc and if I want to play a high graphics game I connect to it from my steamdeck and play it that way. Else I play lighter games and games on the go on the steamdeck itself.
I even tested games like CoD, Battlebit, halo, etc that require low latency and high fidelity and it is basically indistinguishable from playing the games locally once you have it set correctly.
My study turned into my first sons bedroom. So like you mentioned I didn't have space to dedicate to a big gaming setup. I've still got my gaming monitor/kbm if I want to use that. But 99.9% handheld now.
I am fortunate to have an office but still I prefer portable
I like the format ya got going on here, I'll definitely be back for more!
I got my steam deck about two years ago, close to the exact day too. I've taken two breaks from it, but just like how you described it: it's flexible, so whenever I'm tied for time i pick it up and it rekindles my love for gaming.
If it's not gonna be on deck, I ain't playing it either
I really like that flexibility
Agreed. The deck is so easy to game on and pick up
I love it so much
As I get older, and still not letting gaming go. Being a family man I can say that gaming becomes a priority on the bottom of my list. Nevertheless, I find for me that the few hours I have to play I want to enjoy the experience. So I setup an gaming PC in my home/office space and a console on the TV, PS5 for the the exclusive games and better controllers. Got 4 controllers digital multiplayer kids friendly games and physical copies of single player or mature titles. Steam Deck I had as well realized that not all games run well and tinkering was also a time thief. This just another view for people like me. Your video is top notch for your situation. Have fun gaming either way.
Agreed. I have a ps5 collecting dust, and my wife plays Zelda on Switch, but basically only use Steam anymore. I got a PC, a SteamDeck and an Ally and can play most of my library on all of them. The saves automatically transfer. Makes it too easy
The sentiment is real. Stumbled my way here but this video is where I’m at in life. Bought a steam deck 5 weeks before the OLED announcement and it’s my best gaming purchase. It immediately made all the consoles I own irrelevant. The ease of access is just king as a dad. I think there will still be a reason to own consoles for myself. Not as my primary or even a secondary gaming device but more tertiary all things considered. Just there for my wife and kid to have something to also play on till I inevitably get a dock and can use the steam deck as the super switch.
"Steam Deck transformed the way I look at video games" totally agree. I just think it's so cool we can play all of our favorite games (new and old) wherever we want + emulation + having a tiny PC to mess around.
Closing in on 50K subs my man!! Keep up the good work!
Thanks bro looking like It might happen this week
Bob at Wulffden went through a similar awakening. Hes a big Nintendo and especially indie fan so once he got a Steam Deck, that was it.
... same
Love too see love for Linux gaming, I installed steam os 3 interface on my computer, via ChimeraOs, and yeah it changed my gaming forever, its so easy i dont use my Xbox anymore
Thanks for a great video as always. I really feel like I need to get my hands on a Steam Deck even though I have all 3 major consoles. It serves it's own purpose in a way you know. I also think the "try for up to 2 hours and refund if you don't like it" is such a great service offered on Steam that makes it even more appealing
From a person who switched from consoles to pc. Is totally worth it. If i was in your position i would sell all my consoles(maybe keep the switch) and build a gaming pc and i recommend you build it yourself,its a great experience.
Old computer games have only recently come back. But boy oh boy did they come back in a tide
damn amazing. i love coffee and gaming. glad to discover you in my feed. great to see those brew and gaming discussion. keep it up
Glad to see you come on board. I was a bit turned off your content a few months ago. You seemed like a giant Nintendo guy and while I enjoy them, have a switch, and have nostalgia for their early consoles-they’re not a big deal to me these days.
I remember you getting rid of your first steamdeck and being surprised because alongside my PS5, it was my favorite device. It fills so many needs-emulation, future proofing for game library, portability, and access to titles.
I’m glad you’re seeing how much value it offers and I’m in the same boat of leaning toward getting a gaming rig. Feels like a long time coming after being a console gamer my whole life.
Good stuff and keep up the quality content, brother!
I went with the GPD Win Max 2 with the GPD G1 dock/EGPU. On the go its powerful enough, and has the build in keyboard making it usable with windows. If I plug it in the G1 one, because of the external video card in there, it functions fine as a medium powered gaming pc, playing 1440p games at 60 fps at least. I also have a big pc with a 12900k I9 processor and a 3080 geforce video card, but I find I only use that for really heavy games with raytracing etc.
Just ordered it can’t wait ! My 7900xtx died waiting for replacement decided to give it a try
How have I only just found you? Man speaks truths on so many levels.
hahah glad to help. welcome aboard
Dude I vow down to you you speak for all of us fathers and husbands in a very direct and real way. And I appreciate it
no need to bow, just pull up a chair crack open a topo chico and eat some beef jerky with the rest of us
I am debating between the Rog Ally and the Steam Deck, the former has more power and the latter has trackpads (plus a huge community). Probably in the end will go for the OLED deck. Still thinking. (Need to search how to get my GOG library running on the Steam Deck though).
I went deck and would all over again. Rog ally 2 will be the next consideration but not until its worked out the bugs
@@jdxcoffee awesome 👍🏻
@@jdxcoffee Valve is currently working on porting Steam OS to other portable PCs, such as ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and others. Perhaps Steam OS, with its quasi-console-like experience, could improve your impressions of these devices. In the future, Valve wants Steam OS to be able to run anywhere. They are working on this right now. Steam OS is already significantly superior to Windows. It consumes less energy and resources while in the background, extending battery life and improving performance.
I have both the Steam Deck OLED and Rog Ally and honestly you can't go wrong with either . Both absolutely brilliant handhelds .
as someone a bit younger who grew up with the DS and loved how social that whole experience was (Picto Chat and Mario Kart or Pokemon went wild in the school bus or on car rides), I was really hoping the Switch to be that again with it's detachable controllers, but it just wasn't. I never really ended up sharing the small controllers, and with how expensive the games are I usually only had the biggest releases, not great for just showing to someone for a short time.
I gradually moved to PC over the years as I needed a machine to edit videos for school, and after a few upgrades since 2016, and a shit ton of game bundles, steam sales and incredible game deals, getting my Steam Deck LCD in 2023 just made sense. It works with pretty much any controller under the sun, and is small enough to bring around. Not only do I have the Deck available if the Metro is down for a while, for example, but I also can also bring it around when seeing friends to be able to show them my favorite games and share the experience. The Steam Deck feels very social in that way where I can play any of my favorite games and not have to stay confined to my desk, as you said, and whenever the next Deck comes out, all the games I own will already be compatible. It just removes a significant part of the hassle, which might not always be better, I'll definitely still use my desktop computer, but in a hobby all about options and choice like PC gaming usually is, now being able to choose to play at the park or in bed if I want to feels like a breath of fresh air.
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I think upon launch it was too new of a concept for me and the hardware was held back by bugs and ui. Now, its a dream. a real masterpiece
Nice video, man. Just got my Steam Deck Oled and I love it so far. It feels really comfortable and the joysticks feel nice. Would you still recommend this over the Asus Rog Ally? My only hang up is the better “power” of the RogAlly to run graphically intensive games despite the poor battery life.
I do prefer it personally but I know others who would prefer the ally
I the Series X, the PS5, a PC and the Steamdeck. The Steamdeck is without a doubt the best companion hardware that exists out there.
The fact that it can play both Sony and Microsoft exclusives, all of my Steam library + other launchers with tweaks (Blizzard, Epic, EA, Ubi), emulate pretty much anything (tho PS3 and Xbox 360 is much more demanding), allow me to stream my games from my PS5 and Series X with tweaks AND that it doubles as a desktop while docked and I can actually get work done, is nothing short of extraordinary.
I also love the fact that it encouraged me to pickup games I wouldnt necessarily played like plateformers and stuff, and that I can just play something for 20 min, put it on sleep, come back a week later and pick my game back up from where I left it.
It's so great!!
You never really mentioned remote play as an option to cover your bases.
I got a PC and PS5 and I set up my Steam deck with chiaki4deck and now my Steam Deck can play my ps5 remotely , and I can use Steam’s remote play to play my pc games on the big screen too, portability is a blessing with the deck.
I'm a father and Steam Deck has really allowed me to video game more and balance dad life. I have a Ps5 also but being portable is very nice
Bro, I simply love your videos!
Please never stop being who you are!
Dude thank you so much. I really am enjoying these videos!
I don’t have a steam deck but one of those Abxylute handhelds and it was a complete game changer for me being a dad as well. I’m gaming more than I have in recent years,also being able to get GFN 🤯.
I have one of those and felt like the input lag was rough for me
That unfortunate, works fine for me. Your just probably use to the $500 steam deck that QUALITY lol
Cheers to gaming and dad life 🤙🏽
I love my OG 64GB steam deck and love to hear people's views on the device. I know it's not the most powerful but there are so many benefits of steam OS vs Windows.
I am currently playing through FF7 Remake on deck and it plays great.
Can't wait for a steam deck 2. I just want to run games at 60fps with higher quality shaders, being able to play 1080p native docked at 60fps would be great too
I am so impressed with this device!
I have a good gaming rig (i7, rtx3080, 64gb ram, 4tb ssd) and a Steam Deck OLED. Life is good! :) Sharing savegames between PC (Steam) and Steam Deck is a godsent! Also PC Supports Ultrawide monitors and once you try ultrawide gaming you don't want to go back to just 16:9. Playing Red Dead Redemption 2, Witcher3 etc. on a 21:9 display is AWESOME! Used to be a console gamer but I'm not going back.
Legion Go user here. I just installed Bazzite on my legion go (basically steam OS).
No regrets - your criticisms are accurate.
It's just a bit much for me
@@jdxcoffeetotally - hands down the steam deck OLED is better. I have some non gaming use cases for the Legion. For non power users / people who like to tinker steam deck is a no brainer.
Great video man! The steam deck really takes it to the next level, it even goes one step further with emulation! I've been playing the old god of war and even BOTW on my deck
To me it's probably one the coolest things, is how portable the Deck is BUT, anytime I want to connect the Deck to my 50" Samsung tv using a dock, plus a DS4 controller and I have the same console experience....Without having to deal with subscription scams from actual consoles
I can relate. I sold my PS5 and Series X. I wanted freedom.
I built a PC. Now the only thing I'm waiting on now is re-vamped version of Windows for handheld PCs.
I want full compatibility between my PC and a handheld PC.
Steam Deck OLED is the best of the lot right now imo. However, if Microsoft builds a more friendly version of Windows for handheld coupled with Asus putting out the next iteration of the Ally.
I think we have strong case there.
I think we could see it in the next couple of years
I bought an Steam Deck OLED a month ago. It got ridiculous - I almost stopped using my PC for games.
Man, I can't recommend you the gaming PC + Steam Deck combo enough. I am currently playing Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, during the day I use my Deck and in the night I continue where I left of in the PC. You can also stream your PC games to the Deck, and I do that while docked on my TV, which for more graphics required games, it's perfect.
I know PC gaming sounds expensive, but with the sales/deals and no need to pay for a subscription to play online, it feels better. I made the jump from Xbox One/PS4 to PC, and man it's been amazing. Now with the Deck, it's perfect. Steam and GOG are also very consumer friendly, way more than Xbox, PS or Nintendo in my opinion.
First time watching your channel thank for the video and definitely subscribing now. Keep it up thanks
I have a switch. I got the lite first as I thought I never get time to play on tv with kids etc, then got the switch v2 . It did me well for around 3.5 years until I ran out of games I wanted to play. Last December I decided to get a steam deck oled as the trailer looked good and my issue with getting a steam deck was always the battery . But with the improvements , I got one . Love it . Playing deus ex human revolution, Detroit , enslaved , halo master chief collection , plague tale , chorus - all the sort of games I was playing pre kids and marriage (2013) . It’s been amazing !! Still play my switch as now my eldest (6) is interested . So we played Mario odyssey and Kirby. So… now steam deck oled is my main way to play my dad games , and switch to play with my son
Thats such a rad story man. I love reading about how families play together. I too shared gaming with my dad as a lot of my other friends have with theirs. great thing to share
I’ve had my steam deck oled for less than a week and I’ve been gaming more than i have before in recent months it’s been great and it’s like my Xbox was portable quite powerful for what it is and I’ve been very satisfied with the purchase and I get more games than what I could get on my switch and I’ve already picked up a free to keep game from a promotion on steam. But overall as a dad this device has been my best purchase and I only have my wife to thank bc she is the one who pointed it out to me and a she doesn’t really even play games she just saw the one her uncle had and said that I need to get one and so i did
Love my Steam deck, i can olay games i have owned since 2003 😊
I recently built my ITX PC. It is a water cooled Ryzen 7 5800 X and a 7800 XT and the full build cost me a little over 1k. The great thing is you can buy all these parts individually when you have the money. It took me almost a year to get all of the parts but I built it. You can build one too if you are patient and we would love to have you in the community!
Also you can stream your gaming PC to your steam deck via remote play and its amazing. Push past the fear and build a PC yourself. It not as hard as you are making it in your head. You got this!
I'm a work from home dog dad with a wife who works in the hospital in med school.
I used to be function off of Nintendo and Sony as my main consoles until around the PS4 and Switch generation I realized the consoles themselves were aging faster than the games trying to come out. I am a bit of a framerate snob and if the game has less than 45fps I want nothing to do with it.
Built a PC in 2019 before the prices ballooned and have been using Steam as my main gaming library. Over time I learned that while I enjoy the ridiculous processing power of my PC that I've upgraded it is unfortunately tied to one spot in the apartment and it involves me to disassociate from my wife when she is at home (she likes to be around me to spectate or listen to the games I play in the background while she studies)
The steam deck has since triggered a change I didn't realize I always needed. I had always been a fan of portables between Nintendo consoles, the PSP, and PS Vita - but those devices were always noticeably behind in power and ability compared to their modern console brothers. The idea of a portable PC didn't make sense to me because it always sound like I would need to invest into a laptop if I want to play my games somewhere else by which I was okay telling myself I can wait until I am home to play games. Christmas of 2022 hits and my wife got me the steam deck, she knew steam was my main library and that I used to use my switch as my go to handheld when we hang in the living room or visit in laws back home. I was skeptical at first but was surprised to see how quickly my library of indie games, retro games, emulated games, and Double A titles had me playing my steam deck more than my PC. Nowadays I am on my PC if my wife isn't home and have to remind myself to use it every now and then so I don't let it gather too much dust. The OLED model after having had the first model was the cherry on top. They improved so much in so many marginal ways it just feels nice to be a consumer and not feel shafted in some way for once in over like 7 years with this age of modern gaming.
First time seeing your channel, really dig your video style, got my sub.
To me the biggest positive for the Steam Deck has been the portability. Even sacrificing some of the visuals for me has been an easy choice because I don’t want to sit at a location any longer than I need to and the steam deck gives me that freedom!
It’s saving gaming for me.
Same experience for me, as a father of a two year old girl. Indie titles or older triple A games are perfect for the steam deck you can Interrupt anytime. Playstation 5 just for demandimg triple a games i really want to play
PC gaming has always been the better experience. It's much easier these days than in the 90's when a lot of tweaking was often necessary. Luckily, since 2003/4 I've been buying games off Steam so my catalog is pretty extensive. Not huge but I also console game so.... But with the remote play on Xbox and PlayStation now, I don't even need to be near them. I love the flexibility it brings.
In 2008, I bought games on Steam, Wii, PS3, PSP, and XBox 360. Today, I can go into a Best Buy, and buy a budget laptop and any controller I want, a PS5, an XBox Series X, and a Switch. Of the games I bought back in 2008, I can't play any of them on any console other than a tiny, tiny fraction that I get to buy again or rent/stream (yay!) or hope made it onto XBox's backward compatibility list before that program was ended. I can play every Steam game I bought back then on the budget laptop, and I can do it better than I could on the $3000 gaming rig I bought them on.
Also, I don't have space for physical media, and I definitely don't have space for every console with games I really want to play.
PC has the well-known issues, for sure. But the Steam Deck coming out at a time when every major console manufacturer is closing the doors on digital shops that people paid good money for games on, and games themselves getting more expensive, it makes spending money on the current consoles that much more painful. Buying them on Steam feels more like an investment because I have such high confidence that I'm going to be able to play those games from 2008 in 2028 on whatever's in stores that year.
The consoles have given us backward compatibility from time to time, but it's never lasted more than 2 generations. And FFS why do they make it so damn painful to use multiple devices??? Not a problem on Steam.
Great video man! Reflections on the vinyl player or whatever that is in the background is distracting a little. Just a tip!
Keep it up 💪💪
I've stumbled across a operating system for general use PCS that turns a desktop PC into a steam deck like experience. As long as your PC has an AMD GPU you can use Bazzite and it will boot straight into game mode just like the steam deck does and has a KDE desktop
I’m trying to plan out a pc rig too. Hopefully next year. Unless valve drops something cool like a next gen spec pc console 🤞
I have the legion go and since you return it it has gotten better still a working in progress I haven’t tried out steam deck yet but I want to try it I chose the Go over the Deck because a lot of games I like to play isn’t available on it with having to do extra stuff to get it. Honestly I love my Go since I had it I’ve been gaming I can just sit in my living room with the Fam or in the bed and interact without having to be in the man cave away
It's just a bit too big for me
You haven't dived into the full controlling features that Ste Deck offers, you'll find out that a Steam Deck is the best controller you can get on the market. Also the 1-2 punch of a PC rig + Steam Deck, build your WiFi network solid and you can stream all your games from your rig to the Steam Deck at max fidelity.
Steam is also great in terms of games that get taken down from steam for whatever reason. I have Rocket League and Ballistic Overkill, both games are no longer available on Steam but they remain in my account and I can still download and install them from Steam regardless since I had them before they got taken down
For me the killer feature is suspend/resume.
There is no operative system with such perfect suspend/resume smoothness.
Its like a switch but with PC games.
For example, I am playing days gone right now. I keep the game suspended and I continue the story when I have time.
I can be a casual-hardcore gamer at the same time.
Casual in sesion time but hardcore in the hearth.
What's super cool about Steam Deck and other handhelds like it: It lowers the floor of cost of the price of entering PC gaming. On top of that, they really lower the expectations of what we find acceptable for "Graphics" and performance in pc games. No more rushing out to get a RTX 4090 because comfortability overrules being chained to the desktop.
This is the real key to it all. its an entry level PC and a complete gaming solution through and through
Just a little psa. You can stream any ps5 game to your deck oled with HDR support.
That’s where I’m at I only buy it if it works on steam deck. Minus physical games
Kinda related to the topic, I have been a returning online player of FromSoftware games. All my trophies and time investment has been spent on PlayStation. With the recent PS Plus price hike and Elden Ring being the only online game I am active in, it comes into question whether or not I should renew PS Plus when it expires to engage with one game. Elden Ring + SOTET is $80 on Steam, the same cost as the basic PS Plus tier. Though PS5 is better for my needs it is still making me question where I will be investing my time and money in the future. If PlayStation were to go all digital I am not sure I'd be paying $80 or more for online anymore.
I like my Steam Deck but I primarly use it as a legacy/Falcom device or for anything not ported to consoles yet. I did dabble in FFXIV on it and put in 170hrs, so I could see the appeal of not being tehtered to a desk or couch. I am also playing Rebirth, currently at the 30hr mark and just started chapter 6, the game is massive. I haven't played a game thats made me smile or laugh this much since Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but just like Xenoblade Chronicles 2 I'll will likely be crying at the end of Rebirth.
I have a decent gaming pc had it for a few years, before in the Uk I had another pc that was just as good which I sold to a friend before leaving as I knew it would be a pain to take to Singapore where i was moving. Now I am moving from Singapore to hopefully move to Bali and I just haven’t been able to play on my pc much. So I was considering selling my pc to get a deck as I could always buy a dock and use my wireless keyboard to use it as a desktop if I needed to work on documents or anything. Only thing stopping me is Singapore is one of the places still not getting full support or sent steam decks by valve. Instead if you want to get a deck you have to be prepared to pay a marked up price because the person or store you are buying from had to pay fees to get it available to sell for them. Which seems kinda bad I mean ok you had to pay fees but you are then forcing your customer to pay it with interest so you make profit… it would maybe be easier to accept if it was around $300 but even a 512gb oled is $950 or more and the 1TB might as well be $1400
People are still rocking a GeForce 1070. You don’t have to constantly upgrade where as you do have to eventually buy that next gen console. I had my gaming rig with i5 gen 8 cpu and a 2070 for more then5 years and the only reason why I’m building a new rig is because I want to do more demanding things on my pc then just gaming. I don’t have to upgrade the pc plays most if not everything at 60 + frames 1080p. That stigma of having to constantly upgrade is incorrect for most people.
18:00 I agree with you! We keep getting all these new games, but they can't be ran on the 7 year old switch hardware. And we're stuck waiting on them to make new hardware for them to hopefully eventually release the game on their system. Sometimes, it can take years for a game to even be announced that it's going to be available on their hardware. Their library is almost too exclusive. Which takes the appeal away for me. For example, take Party Animals. The game could easily run on the switch, but guess what! You can't play it "yet"!