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Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives (www.pcguide.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device's lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use comparable power to the deck running at max power. This means the battery life will probably be pretty rough when compared to the Deck. It will also likely have a much higher price point.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Every single one of the competitors I've seen makes at least two of the following mistakes, each of which means they don't stand a chance:

Windows
Display resolution > 720p
No trackpads
Awful layout

[–] Leg 23 points 6 months ago

It's insane to me that the competition can't compete with the blueprint. I was really hoping that the deck would cause better products to follow, not worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I could do without the trackpads but everything else I agree on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe you could, but the whole point of the steam deck is the ability to play any PC game, and most require mouse input to play well. Most people would be unwilling to make that tradeoff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

That depends on what they bought the Deck for. Not everyone has much of an interest in playing games that require the trackpads, so there's still a big market for handhelds that cover the rest.

[–] Mango 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Why not 1080p?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Increased battery drain for diminishing returns. From the distance and screen size, it wouldn't be that noticeable, but the performance drops would be.

[–] Mango 2 points 6 months ago

As someone with a 4k OLED phone and a Steam Deck OLED, the difference pretty well screams at me. I don't mind it so much though. It's still pretty damn nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You also lose integer scaling if you need to run a game at common resolutions below 1080p. (720p/800p, etc.)

[–] Mango 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Eli5?

Is it because 1 to .75 gets weird when it's a pixel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah - the operating system (or perhaps the display hardware itself, not sure) has to stretch each software pixel to a fractional amount of larger hardware pixels. In the case of upscaling 720p to 1080p, each 720p software pixel has to stretch to 1.33 hardware pixels. This forces blending to occur, which makes the image less sharp.

The worst part of this in my opinion is reading text.