Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

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[Flair] My post title

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[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

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Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
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There is no AMD Z2 Steam Deck model coming - Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Releasing hardware years apart is the luxury thing only those with big digital store can have.

[–] morgan_423 15 points 4 days ago

Well sure, it's not the hardware sales alone that's doing it for Valve.

Stream Deck sales are just icing on their cake. They're turning back flips when any PC handheld is sold (not just their own) because they know there's a 95% chance that the purchaser of said handheld is going to stock most of, or all of, their games directly or indirectly through Steam.

Valve's nailing down of, and further establishment and entrenching of the handheld PC market, and their work to help it to thrive regardless of manufacturer... it is just a genius move on their part to get more people funneled into their store.

The big three in the console world are also attempting this - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft... but unlike them, Valve is doing it the right way, providing tons of value to consumers rather than restricting it. It's definitely paid off for them.