Steam Deck

Hot take, but I see it having a market for people who just want to play on a tablet dedicated to gaming without futzing with peripherals. During break I stole my daughter's tablet to play Gameboy games and it was possibly better than my deck (lighter weight, bigger screen, and shaders that give it a pixel grid w/ a GBC border frame).

This big thing is still not for me, though, as I'd prefer the versatility of going portrait mode because I would likely use it as a 3DS emulator depending on how good the touch is. DS screens fit quite comfortably on tablets in portrait mode. (Assuming I even have the disposable income, which I do not).

Yes, but how can you train your beautiful gamer biceps then? You can have all that beautiful extra train and stay in shape while playing your favorite games. A double win!

if it doesn't fit in my pocket it's not a hand held

A laptop does not support attached controllers for hand-holding. Seems pretty obvious.

I cannot hold my hands in the air indefinitely. Even completely empty my arms will get tired after a few short minutes, much less several hours. My Steam Deck gets held on my lap or on a table or something like that.

OneXPlayer has something similar that I actually considered buying (but ultimately didn't for several reasons) that includes a keyboard and (laptop) trackpad and a pen. If I can buy 1 device that can do both handheld gaming and also laptop productivity, I can save a whole lot of money...

Finally, something I can read VN text on

Absurdly massive and yet no space for some touchpads? 🤡

i agree. the reason steam deck and other handhelds work well is because of the smaller screen/resolution.

makes it light and games run ok due to the smaller resolution. a chonker like this completely defeats the purpose of a handheld imo.

Honestly the deck is already pushing how big a handheld can be and still be portable/handheld. I don't think I would want anything larger

You know the fun thing? If they managed to reduce the roughly 3+ centimeters of useless bezel on all sides the size wouldn’t be so unreasonable.

1x 27” laptop please.

My hands are tired just looking at it

Smart move. People keep buying ridiculously oversized phones. Smaller ones somehow do not sell. So why not apply the same concept to tablets

this is basically the oversized razer kishi pro with an ipad mini.

ive got that rn and it's pretty amazing as a steam link device.

steamos really needs to fix their steam link code, it's a mess.

I agree. So big screen and controllers that Nintendo Switch looks like a lilliputian. Not so portable.

Give it one of those detachable cardboard keyboards and it it would be an overgrown Surface competitor.

I don't think 11 inch is absurdely big. That's the screen size of the current iPad air.

Honestly, it kinda makes sense with the detachable controllers. It's essentially a very powerful tablet. It's less practical but it serves a different niche than the Steam Deck IMO.