Valve's Steam Deck is quickly becoming an unofficial PlayStation Vita successor

[WYP]

Horizon: Zero Dawn and God of War are now Steam Deck verified.



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[Bagpuss]

Battery life on 1st gen Steam deck is going to be its major Achilles heel when playing stuff like HZD & GOW.


Unless you want it looking like a potato PC version, then those sort of really GPU intensive games are going to suck the battery dry, PDQ.




...Anything less than 5-6hrs quickly becomes too much of a limitation, IMO, and I'm willing to bet you'll be lucky to see much more than 2-3hrs running top end games.

 

[ET3D]

Battery life on 1st gen Steam deck is going to be its major Achilles heel when playing stuff like HZD & GOW.

I agree that battery life, and even performance, may be an issue for new AAA games, it would still be a real achievement that they could be played.

Unlike the Vita, or Switch, or whatever other mobile console, the strength of the Deck is the huge library of games that it has. Even if for some of them performance will be a little sub-optimal, having the ability to play all those games is huge, IMO.

 

[meuvoy]

I agree that battery life, and even performance, may be an issue for new AAA games, it would still be a real achievement that they could be played.

Unlike the Vita, or Switch, or whatever other mobile console, the strength of the Deck is the huge library of games that it has. Even if for some of them performance will be a little sub-optimal, having the ability to play all those games is huge, IMO.

Early reviews are already out. Yes, battery life is on the low side for playing heavy games with it sitting at around 3 hours, but apparently it can get up to 9 hours of battery for older games with fps limiters and of course, for emulated games. And it's still better than any other handheld PC.

Performance on the other hand seems pretty solid with it taking the latest AAA games like a tank, and that's without a proper GPU driver. While i don't expect the performance to stay at around 60fps for AAA games in the coming years, they should still be playable, apparently fast DDR5 RAM is a big thing going for iGPUs.

 

[dazbobaby]

Looking at GamersNexus testing, the charge controller gets as high as 98°c with a max of 105°c. I can see this being a serious problem for future repairs. It's far too close to it's threshold.


I hope I'm wrong and the steam deck lasts for years. It's too promising to fail.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Depends on the quality of the components used really.