It’s a PC, essentially, so the hardware is always evolving, they could upgrade whenever they choose to. The advantage of any console, the Steam Deck included, is it offers a very consistent set of specs the developers can target for years. If Valve iterates too quickly, then two problems arise: One, there’s one performance goal for devs interested in making a portable game to work towards, there’s many. In addition, the Steam Deck Verified program gets a lot harder to maintain if there are too many flavors of Deck to manage. I think Valve is planing on a lifecycle similar to the major consoles.
The upside is it is all PC hardware, and there are other handheld manufacturers out there, some even running SteamOS, so if you want a higher performance rig before Valve’s ready for the SD2, you can certainly find what you’re looking for.
13 points ·
I’ve used the right trackpad as a mouse. I haven’t tried it for an FPS, but it works well for menus, inventory management, or for lower stress mouse games like city builders.
In Valhiem, at least, I’ve configured the left track pad as an 8 position radial menu to quickly activate to any hotbar slot.
101 points ·
Last time the administration said another country didn’t have any cards they destroyed a quarter of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet a few weeks later.
9 points ·
But Trump clearly said, “Now is the time for peace.” No takesies-backsies, Iran! /s
27 points ·
Russia doesn’t get to dictate who other sovereign nations choose to associate with.
42 points ·
And, if it’s been out in the sun for a while, 🇮🇹 can start to look like 🇮🇪
29 points ·
They’re extremely similar, Romania has a slightly lighter blue, but they’re both blue, yellow, and red vertical tricolors. Romania used to be more distinct, with a coat of arms in the middle, but that was removed after the fall of communism. Chad has complained, as they had the flag first, but Romania hasn’t done anything. Maybe this will prompt the new president to do something.
4 points ·
I’m thinking specifically of People magazine. With paper magazines, the time to print and distribute come into play. If they had waited until after, the article wouldn’t have hit store shelves until late mid February, after it was most relevant.
8 points ·
Seriously, remember Betty White? Articles about her 100th birthday were already written when she died 17 days short of it.
59 points ·
It’s not until the last sentence of the article that they acknowledge what’s most likely the actual cause for the rapid fall off in sales.
Tesla is being squeezed out of the European market, in large part due to most consumers’ dislike for its CEO.
14 points ·
I mean, if you’re an EU trade minister, who looks like the more reliable trading partner right now?
31 points ·
If the Tesla board of directors was being responsible to shareholders, they’d have recognized the damage the public perception of Elon is doing to the company and either have him rein it in or outright remove him. However, Elon’s gotten a number of his cronies onto the board, so I don’t think it’s happening unless the shareholders vote out the current board.
2 points ·
Vermont imports a quarter of its electricity from HydroQuebec. We’ve made it very clear this past weekend what we think of the administration. All the same, I completely understand.
22 points ·
Probably one of the least flashy accessories, but I bought a 10 foot long USB-C cable that lets me sit anywhere on the sofa and play without battery anxiety.
46 points ·
The man can get his country into NATO, I’d say he has earned his retirement.
2 points ·
Point taken.
4 points ·
It’s not like Russia is going to issue press releases on its troop deployments.
8 points ·
The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.
1 points ·
Trump was right about one thing, we are a nation in decline, but it’s not for the reasons he’s claiming.
152 points ·
Is that DJ GabeN dropping beats on the Deck’s screen?