>>715819695
Because the Steam Deck was designed by people who actually play video games. The whole point of a PC handheld is to play PC games on the go. The Steam Deck is the best in that department for two reasons:
>input options
Self explanatory. Steam Input allows you to map inputs to trackpads and back buttons (and all the other buttons too). The trackpads are the best part of the Deck:
>left trackpad for hotkey menus
>right trackpads for mouse
>back buttons for moar buttons
>capacitive joysticks for gyro activation when touching the stick
Steam Input allows you to craft and share control schemes for PC games that don't support controllers and wouldn't work on them to begin with.
>best performance at low TDP
If you look at all the other competitors on the UMPC market, you notice that they're more powerful than the Deck. That's because they use hungry chips that guzzle battery during use. This is incredibly bad for a handheld. In addition, they're using Windows 11 which is unoptimised jeetware which hogs system resources, while SteamOS is designed to be more efficient. The Steam Deck OLED does extremely well at low wattages vs the other UMPCs, allowing for maximum playtime, especially when running less demanding software.
These two factors explain the Deck is the best.
