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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It's rather interesting to me how nobody puts any value on the Deck trackpads in comparisons like these, and yet they are basically essential if you want the device to be able to play anything but console-optimized games / games that are built for gamepads first.

Playing something like Skyrim on one of the alternative portables can certainly be done, but being able to comfortably play games like Against the Storm, Anno, Civilization, Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, Homeworld, Northgard, OpenTTD, Stellaris, etc is where the Deck really shines and where all the "alternatives" fall completely flat.

Edit: Not to mention that trying to run Windows without any kind of direct mouse input is really painful, and all the "alternatives" keep doing exactly that.

[–] tombuben@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's baffling especially because all of the other handhelds ship with a desktop operating system by default.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's weird they all ship with windows instead of SteamOS. It's not like Valve would've said no to anyone trying to use it, they've been trying to find partners for ages.

[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they're already spending so much on hardware just to edge the Deck on performance alone. They're ignoring all the other stuff that makes the Deck great which is decent performance but fantastic flexibility.

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