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Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Controller] - Steam Controller related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[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.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS 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.
- Have fun.
Omg just checked I was kicked out from the wait list somehow :(
Such a great looking piece of tech. Looks like it belongs on a better timeline than this shit one.
Co-co-co-cool!
I've yet to recieve the purchase email.
Nvm just checked me email, came in overnight. No the decision to open that money is real.
Ugh happy for you. I really had in my head that being in the reservation queue meant that I would have mine by now!
I know, I've been seeing so many people get theirs I've been checking my email daily afraid I somehow lost the email telling me I can purchase now lol

spoiler
Put it in your ass!
Show us what you're really about...
One (wo)man one machine.
I get this reference, having seen the source material a thousand time, voluntarily and with raging erection

I'm on the waiting list, and boy is it annoying to see them being listed on ebay
so jealous. i got mine, but wasn't able to nab a controller... so i've been just complaining about all the minor issues i'm rediscovering with all my old controllers, lol. (not steam issues, just "these face buttons are too squishy", "i forgot this one had stick drift", etc, i've been pure steam-deck for a while...). Good news is i can connect just about anything to it, so that's nice. but a steam controller will be even better! Eventually!
Is there not a way to use the deck as a controller?
Congratulations! Even though they are overpriced, they are the right size and wife approved aesthetically. They are also more functional than a console. I still want one. But I got waitlisted hardcore. I hope you enjoy yours. Do write up your first impressions and a detailed review after you’ve had some runtime with it. It’ll help us less fortunate souls decide to wait out the waitlist, or go build something on our own cheaper but less slick looking :)
At this point I’d be surprised if they are doing better than breaking even.
I will not call it overpriced because the current PC market is crazy because of AI. Even Valve isn't happy with the price.
Overpriced would mean that Valve would be making a significant profit. They will not.
Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren't raking billions off of this. I'm fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.
I got mine yesterday. Copying my thoughts from a comment in another thread:
Don't mind my essay here. TLDR: I love this thing.
I got mine yesterday. It's the 512GB with no controller since I already got the controller separately and the 2TB version felt like an especially bad deal.
I was initially on the fence about the price and reserved just to get into the queue to make the actual buy decision later. I was expecting more people to have thoughts on it out before my spot in the queue came up, but I ended up getting my purchase email very quickly on 6/30. I let the email sit for a day but ended up deciding to pull the trigger for a few reasons:
One, I've owned every first-party Valve device so far, and all of them have been more than the sum of their parts. Two, I wanted a HTPC, travel, and LAN party PC that's a bit less restraining than a laptop. Three, being a bit of a performance snob has been distracting me away from actually gaming and I wanted to get back into the no nonsense side of PC gaming again. And four, I don't mind spending a little extra money advancing Linux, repairable hardware, etc.
I feel like I have to acknowledge reviews from the PC space have been largely negative, but they seem to be undervaluing a lot: the form factor (a 6" cube is still tiny compared to almost all other SFF builds), performance per volume (almost the entire cube is a heat sink), and the benefits of more standard performance targets we've already seen with the Deck.
As for first impressions, the device is packaged well, and unboxing was very satisfying. I did have some trouble getting my controller paired since it was already paired to my existing desktop PC and plugging it in directly wasn't enough to get around that like I expected, but looking up how to pair it to multiple PCs got me past that.
I spent a few hours testing a mix of light to demanding games, and I'm more than happy with what it can do. I haven't tried gaming beyond 1080p yet, but I'm going to be very selective about when and how I do that. 512GB is proving to be plenty of space for what I'm playing at any one time, and I think that would still be true if I didn't have other devices acting as additional storage.
I feel like all my expectations above have been validated, and now I'm really looking forward to getting the Frame. I want to make a travel backpack or suitcase with foam cutouts for the whole set.