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PC Gamers: buys $550 Steam Deck
Console Gamers: . . . shit
$460 (64gb version + 1tb SD card)
Let's be honest, the Steam Deck is a console.
It's a handheld computer. It's more of a glorified gaming tablet than a console. It's no more of a console than a gaming laptop with the same APU.
Yes, but also no.
You're comparing two completely different experiences. The steam deck has 64gb of RAM and doesn't do 1080 on some modern titles. The PS5 and x do 4k upscaling well and punches above its weight when compared to a more expensive GPU. The steam deck looks like garbage on a large TV and is a terrible only device if you have a budget.
RAM is not the same thing as storage.
Steam Deck works great for the games I care about. Which is not the trash put out by the major game developers.
"steam deck works great when I move the goalposts"
The PS5 has 16gb of RAM bud.
And it's shared with the CPU which has been a bottleneck since both the x and PS5 do it.