Thread 719677398

>pause game and turn off screen
>come back two hours later
>battery drained to 0% and turned off just from sitting there
Man I love modern technology

>>719677398 (OP)
What even is the point of "handheld" device this large? Nobody is lugging around this shit during their daily commute.

>>719677398 (OP)
The battery on this thing will just die if you leave it off, meanwhile I had a laptop from 2008 sitting on a shelf for nearly a decade before I powered it on again and it worked fine, the battery still even holds a charge.

works on my machine
the other day I had birth by sleep open, paused the game and pressed the power button, went to work for 5 hours and came back to it around 30%

>>719677398 (OP)
You'd have to be at like 5% charge for that to happen.
>>719677552
You're not actually turning it off, you're suspending it. Your 2008 laptop is guaranteed to have an even worse battery life under similar conditions.

>>719677505
portable is a better description than "handheld" and is valve's preferred description if we go by the webpage
it's for things like travel, not commuting
the phone is now the preferred commuter device and there are no true handheld gaming devices anymore
also read the great gatsby on the train instead of being a bing wahoo faggot

>>719677398 (OP)
is the dock worth it? what does it actually do for you?

>pause game
>go answer door
>it's my wife's bull
>let him in
>prep her for him
>watch the whole thing
>clean up wife afterwards
>go back to my room
>switch is still at 90%
man I love my switch 2!

I love the Steam Deck

Get off the charge, turn on the screen, play a game for 1 minute, already at 90% charge. It rules.

>>719677398 (OP)
legion go is vastly superior. better cpu/ram, detachable controllers, bigger screen

>>719677398 (OP)
Sounds like a you problem.
I was playing Persona 5, put my deck into sleep mode then forget about it for 2 days and it still turned back on when I remembered it. Don't remember the exact % but hey 2 days is pretty impressive.
love me deck lads

>>719677828
If you have to ask then no it isn't worth it. That said I own the dock and think it's great.

>>719678209
>no trackpads

>>719677871
>>switch is still at 90%
Good one, that thing's battery life is even worse, dies in only 2 hours in 80% of all cases, even with shit like welcome tour.

>>719678524
nta but i own a deck and i barely even use them
do i have to be a moba/rts elitist to understand the appeal

I want a deck but I feel like I'm way too late to the party. I hope they release the deck 2 soon.

>>719678959
No, just any game that requires any sort of aim

>>719677398 (OP)
That is just a lie. You can turn the thing off and leave it for days and it will not have drained.

>>719679078
i find them too jittery to use for aiming. maybe i just need to tweak the sensitivity more idk. i dont really use the gyro either

>>719677871
It has pretty solid battery life on normal Switch games, but it is a mess for everything else
>>719679078
I'm too lazy for configuring the deck's Gyro, but I do use it on shit like the Switch 2. Fortnite is actually playable with flickstick and the weapon wheel

>>719678252
>other game
>game so good , can't stop thinking on it , steam deck weared itself out
>persona 5
>game such a shit , not even consideringed , full battery much years later
wow !

>>719679393
Gyro pulls it all together.
Trackpad as mouse, touching the touchpad turns on Gyro with 25%-50% output sensitivity

>>719679060
It's still the best hardware for the price even now with all of the competition. Doubtful we'll see Deck 2 until at least like 2027. We would've heard something by now if it were coming out soon.

>>719679672
I hope the base Deck2 model has an OLED option, I got a launch Deck and can't justify the very marginal upgrade for the OLED1

>>719677398 (OP)
Oh, I'm sorry, OP. Did you get the Steam Deck confuse with a ROG Ally?

>>719679060
Deck 2 is likely 2 years off. Deck just got a lossless upscaling plugin that lets you play just about anything at 60+ fps.

>>719677552
There's no fucking way a battery didn't self discharge in "nearly a decade", you're a blatant liar or you don't even understand the device you're using and powered it on with the charger connected and was greeted with a miscalibrated battery. I have countless laptops and phones and the battery always dies if it's off. I don't know exactly how long it takes, but it hardly even takes a year on most devices.

Li-ion batteries self-discharge, even if the device is off and taking 0 power. OP isn't even talking about this, though. The Steam deck is obviously not turned off when you put it in standby.

>>719679939
There's no way it won't, but valve will likely still offer a cheaper lcd version with less storage alongside it.

>>719679393
Motherfucker there's like 20 settings just for using the trackpads as mouse or aiming. Why did you buy a steam deck if you weren't planning to make use of it's only benefit over the other handhelds.

>>719677398 (OP)
> pause game and put deck to sleep
> come back next morning
> battery hasn't drained at all
gee, I wonder why the battery drains when you leave the game running, if only there was some way to turn the game off if you weren't going to play it for several hours

>>719677505
>>719677398 (OP)
>too bulky to enjoy while sitting
>too bulky to enjoy while laying down
>only enjoyable when hooked to a TV with external controller
Just stick with a PC

>>719677398 (OP)
In case anyone here is not shit posting, go to the bios by holding power and volume up, go to setup utility, go to boot, then doable Quick Boot and your deck won't use as much power when off or in sleep mode

>>719677828
It gives you a place to charge the deck, and if you play older games you can easily play them on the couch. I got it set up so I could play Riven on my TV with my kids, but that's about it. Most of the time I just use it handheld.

>>719677505
Well, having owned one for a few years. It's lighter than carrying around a gaming laptop when traveling. Plus it's nice to sit in bed and play after a day. But yeah, you're gonna be using that charger 100% of the time you're playing on it.

>>719681268
I shouldn’t have to do that…

>>719681107
t.

>>719680965
i would rather just play games with the joysticks than fuck with settings for 15 minutes every time i want to play a new one. also all of the other handhelds are way more expensive than the cheapest deck so that + steamos was a major influence in me getting one

>>719677871
>brings up his detailed cuck fantasy unprompted
gross, please stop doing that

>>719681484
I guess cry then

>>719677398 (OP)
That's one thing I like more about my ally x even if it's more cumbersome in other ways

>>719679393
>too jittery
crank smoothing to max, it's bad for mice but good for trackpads

>>719678959
I can never to back to using a thumbstick on a controller after having used the trackpads on a steam controller a decade ago. It's amazing how vastly superior they are, and it pisses me off to no end at how they got put in the most uncomfortable location on the deck possible because the average person cannot wrap their heads around anything different then the piece of shit controller design that Sony came up with nearly 30 years ago.

>>719677398 (OP)
>Leaving game to RUN instead of putting the device to sleep or some shit
>wow where is my battery
lol retard it doesn't work like nintendo ds