Re:Valve Steam Deck
by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:38PM
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Well that's the beauty of the deck. Devs don't need to do shit, as it's basically a gaming PC in your hand that can run the same games you have on your steam library on your gaming rig but on lower graphic fidelity.
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Re:Valve Steam Deck
by Ericson2314 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @04:39PM
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You don't need to changes things, but you probably want to. It's a general purpose computer and I could run e.g. StarCraft, but I would get slaughtered with controls like that.
The traditional business view is the casual gamers are growing, and the elite PC gamers are stagnant. Valve is trying to wreck that dichotomy with hardware like this, but I think that goes with making sure there are games that fit the form factor. You can't just sell this to people who rather play on their main gaming rig but are sometimes stuck without this.
Making games for this form factor != a retreat from the principle of general purpose computing.