u/Datz

I hope these won't sell out/queue up as much as Machines and Controllers do, since I can only safely afford it after a few months after a recent PC purchase.

But since this doesn't have competition like the Machine (if you hate Meta), I'm worried.

"30fps at 720p"

In games such as?

It's alright, certainly high quality, the difficulty curve is kind of wack. Keeping money in the early game is brutal, but it doesn't take long until the game pulls a 180 and you don't lose money ever, on top of facetanking half your problems with sheer stats and item effects. Reminds me of phase locket back in SK and how it makes half the bosses trivial.

I wasn't impressed by vanilla Shovel Knight and only loved how original and smooth all the DLC were, this feels like going back to SK somehow - even if on paper there's tons of original ideas here. If you like Shovel of Hope or 2D Zelda (which it sticks to a lot, including the problems) you'll like this, and if you like both you'll love this, probably.

Are MMOs the only games that scratch the endless world itch? I mostly associate them with a ton of grinding and content over quality. All their perks for me came from the community aspect, and without that, I'd probably just play single-player RPGs.

The one exception is Warframe, but that's because it's already mostly enjoyable as a single-player game anyway.

But why WOULD he?

I'm not a fan of people thinking Gabe does everything, from haters and lovers alike (though, based on what I'll say, there's maybe more reason to hate Gabe for getting the credit). We need more appreciation for the current Valve team, especially the engineers who made Steam Deck and all the Steam features happen.

If Gabe dies, whoever gets the reins (kid or close friend) literally just has to do nothing, and the team just has to keep getting younger likeminded folk onboard.

This isn't a Nintendo situation where most higher ups are greedy bastards and Satoru Iwata had to hold all of them off.

I'm hoping that whatever Valve is doing with the Index, people will get working on Ayn Thor, so I could finally upgrade from my 3DS.

I was hoping I could also use this thing with my Switch 2 and PS3 (with some input dongles if needed), but I assume that's out of question now.

I'm still gonna get it, but only once I get a Steam Machine or another gaming PC. By then, this might go on discount too.

I have the 8bitdo Ultimate 2 and I'm still gonna get this (eventually, once I get a gaming PC), because the dpad is pretty bad for precise 2D games. And the back buttons don't gel with me as nicely.

The main problem is that I'm using it for waking Switch 2 and I doubt the Steam Controller could do that, but if it's easy to customise, someone out there might make it work. If that's the case, instant buy.

"Initial support for upcoming Steam Machine hardware"

I'll take any news I guess

Again, reviews? Game demos? Those are already excuses if they wanted to (and could in the first place, since refunds are probably required by law, as the other reply). This fps prediction IS customer service.

Should we remove hardware requirements or reviews, because then you could argue you weren't informed about the game not being your type? Are game demos bad?

Informing the customer being bad sounds backwards. This could only backfire if the fps prediction is wrong, and I still think for most people this would a positive, I wanted a feature like this.

Extra smoothness for a frame of input delay is a good boon for any non-action games that just have cool animation. Or even less hardcore action games. I'm one of the few people who doesn't want the higher fps for gameplay, I just think 30 -> 60 looks better.

On the other hand, I don't see the 60->120 jump well.

I never used framegen though, because Steam Deck is all I have and didn't play around much.

"QUIT HAVING FUN"

I sat through Yakuza Kiwami 2 at unstable 20fps like 4 years ago, and recently played E33 at 20-30.

30fps is terrible until you play for like 20 minutes and get used to it, though the instability was actually bad. I tried 120fps for the first time recently with Silksong, but going back to 60 wasn't bad either.

The thing is that since Steam Deck's release, a lot of competitors made handhelds, and it's mostly keeping up because of SteamOS. It sounds to me like Valve just needs the Steam Machine to once again offer software, convenience etc. above everyone else in the couch gaming market this is aiming for.

Then the only upgrade most users would want is from Valve themselves, but the same goes for Steam Deck - they said they might make a new one with a big enough generational leap, and then the old SD's become outdated too. We had emulation machines before Steam Deck - being able to play last gen games on it was still a big appeal.

Also, is constantly upgrading PCs better, when instead of selling off/scrapping the PUs and other parts every 5-10 years, you sell off/scrap PUs annually? I don't think people doing that are the target audience here anyway. I think some patient gamers would buy a used GabeCube 15 years from now for a low price.

Ah, I should keep an eye on that.

I love Steam Deck but the 3DS is the best console I've ever had, and was hoping some replacements would be available in 20 years when it breaks and used are hard to find.