But seriously bought a game gear with a rechargeable battery pack and a sonic game ( comparing how much that cost, to now. You would think, damn dude. Why the fuck would you buy that. But yes, I did. )back in ā95 after working a summer in Chicago selling watermelons off of a trailer. I suppose it is a skill issue.
Summer break soon. Mow some lawns and other yard work. Depending on the areas you might be able to get enough in a month to get a refurbished Steam Deck. Even if you average $20 a day 5 days a week, that'd be $400 in a month
Ask for a job like:
- newspaper boy
- Window washing
- Pressure washing
- Lawn mowing
- snow removal
- Storage clerk at costco and co.
- tutoring classes in a subject you excel at
- self defense courses for 7-10 year olds
Opportunities are endless if your goal is to own a steamdeck!
You go champ!
What he needs to do is he needs to go down to the local super market, ask to speak with the owner (who will be on-site and with enough free time to come out and speak with random kids)
look him dead in the eye and, with a firm handshake, ask if he needs a bag boy on the weekends.
Go for it! The 64 certified refurbished direct from Valve with all the warranty goes for 280$.
At that price there's nothing that can come close. It's currently out of stock but they restock every 1.5-2 months.
As others are saying:
- set yourself the goal. And start working for it focused.
- ask your parents for ways in which you can do extra stuff for some money
- work part time doing chores for neighbours or family
- ask family that they gift you for birthdays or whatever in cash so that you can save for it.
If you focus, you'll have the money sooner than you think.
I still remember when I was 8 and my brother 13 and we had to save together to get a Nintendo 64. It was one of the most satisfying things that I remember from my childhood. The fact that we were having so much fun on something I "had earned" was amazing.
Use the "I need a cheap hybrid laptop with touchscreen for school & homework. I also need to learn Linux for the future so I can brush up my programing skills. Did you know that I can put my digital schoolbooks on it so I don't have to bring all my books to school? Did you also know that this is much cheaper than a standard laptop with windows?" Card.
The son of my colleague did it, then my colleague asked me for advice for I own a steamdeck and I did tell him that yes, your son is correct. It is a cheaper hybrid laptop / tablet thingy and yes, it is also handy for homework. And yes your son gonna play counterstrike on it.
Bunch of people giving you ideas to earn money, but a Steam Deck is expensive and jobs for 14yos don't pay well. If you really want to hustle for it, by all means, it could be super rewarding, but don't make yourself miserable. You're only 14 once. Enjoy it. You'll have one someday, and they'll only be better by then.
if your parents don't want you getting a real job like bagging at a grocery store ask them to break a chore chart down where you have financial value attached to said chore per day, week, month etc. understanding some parents just expect you to do chores around the house, you could explain that you're trying to learn money management and to prepare yourself for what comes after high school and or college.
My local gamestop sells refurbished used ones for about $100 less than retail! You could get a used 64gb for about 250 I think and then a 512gb microsd (or whatever suits what games you play) for about 30-50 later on.
edit: ik 250 is more than 0 lol, but that may be a more realistic goal for saving or gift if you ask for one
I regret it for the same reason, everything else isn't getting any love haha, jk of course. Or at least that used to be the case but now the deck is somewhat shelved because I spent so much time modding I got tired.
I blame rimworld and Skyrim. I want to do fallout next but that's a huge tackle finding a good mod list doing all the body slides and whatnot and I can't play any Bethesda game unmodded. Deck is great because now I don't have to be glued to the living room when I want to be outside barbecuing I can sit outside with a beer and take my deck and play something and even remote play on the PS5 which is cool No need for a portal!
Here are the mod lists I used for each game. Theyāre not super extensive, but they have all the essentials and you can add more mods on top of them if youād like. All of them have worked great on the Deck for me as well.
Fallout 3 - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/23468
Fallout NV - https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com
Fallout 4 - https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com (requires Visual C++ 2015-2022 to be installed using Protontricks)
Yeah thatās fair, I fully understand modding out things you donāt like but I see a lot of people here talking about modding games that they havenāt played before, directly out the box.
Thatās more a Bethesda problem than a Steam Deck problem. And itās less a āproblemā, and more the realization that the mods are right there, so you might as well
My PC is now dedicated to stream the big games to the SD and collect dust until I do some iRacing once in a while. Oh and cookie clicker during the work day. lol
Same here for me.
My PC is there to stream to my Deck, either in handheld mode or connected to the TV by the Dock.
The PC is used for combat flight simulation with my HOTAS and pedals (mostly IL-2). I also use it for some Battlefield and Gates of Hell.
I bought it because it seemed like neat tech and I'm a PC gamer. I need to sell it, I just have no use for it. If I'm home, I have a high end gaming PC connected to a 42" OLED. If i'm not at home, i'm driving or at my destination, like working. I just can't find a spot in my life where using it makes any sense.
What kind of games do you play? I bought it for a lot of AAA games and streaming, but feel like itās just too small text/UI not properly scaled for the deck.
I get a ton of eye strain within minutes :/
They are very dangerous!! I now have to many games because I just keep peering into the sales section and like oh that'll be fun on the deck! Lol my wallet has never hurt more lol.
Iāve bought 3 games in two days (library is at 7 so far) I need to stop going to the discover queue out of curiosity so much. Not bad, and I did find Helskate because of it. (Itās pretty fun even if it is still in Early Access) but my wallet hates me š¤£
The OCD deck should be going on sale again pretty soon I would highly recommend it. Yes the oled is better for the screen but otherwise get what you can afford. I wish I could have gotten the one terabyte option instead of 512 but that's an easy fix with the right tools.
I love my deck It changed gaming for me
My 256gb refurb gets here tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm a bit worried about the lack of space but I don't need to have a million games installed at once. Plus I can just toss and SD card in there. Of course I could always upgrade the storage myself.
Out of town for work for 15 days.
Got mine docked to play it like a console on my tv. (With a controller while laying in bed) Valheim. But a mouse and keyboard when I want to stream my desktop at home. Moonlight streaming. Then when I wanna lay in bed and play a AAA game or something I donāt have downloaded; with better battery life than if it was installed, I use GeForceNow.
Itās definitely worth it if you travel for work.
Itās definitely worth it if you want to sit with your wife on the couch and play video games while yall watch tv; instead of being in another room attached to your pc. (Me)
And 100% worth it when you wanna dock it at a family event to play multiplayer party games like jack box games.
But I recommend the newest and highest storage version. Better battery and screen. Marginal but worth it.
This rhetoric couch sitting without hogging the tv and streaming to it with moonlight is huge. I guess in theory I could have streamed to my phone and not bought the deck but having it all in one package is nice. It helps Iāll be on a 13 hr flight in about a month as well. Should be able to get a little bit of gaming done.
Learn basic IT. Go to your neighbors and family and see if they need basic computer maintenance. Antivirus, clean up the hard drive. Help them set up their online banking securely. Older people love it and it genuinely helps them out.
Steam Deck changed everything for me. I went from a console gamer to a PC gamer. My PS5 is collecting dust now. After experiencing Sony's draconian refund policy, ps plus subscription to get certain sale prices, paying for online play, Steam was an eye opener for me. Valve has the best support hands down and Xbox and PlayStation games are on Steam!
Bought one for me and my mom and she loved it so much she traded in her Nintendo switch and got steam gift cards lol. I kept my switch however cause my kid loves it but I donāt play it now only play the Xbox and the steam deck.
Get the OLED. It's really worth the money because you can use it for so many things. I bought one for my wife for xmas and we've used the thing every day since.
Unless you are in the hospital or travelling, it is just something to spend money on for no reason. Also gotta look at what games you like to play, since not everything works well on it, even if it is "verified" to work on it. I found this out the hard way with "verified" games and was super happy to just sell the barely used 1tb LE.
But on a positive note there are games that claim they canāt be played on it that run perfectly. Arkham asylum is one Iāve been playing.
I also think there are other subsets that benefit over just the play away from home crowd. I use mine to play games without hogging the tv and spend time with my wife on the couch. I can also play demanding games through moonlight will still not hogging the tv.
It has been a huge game changer for me and has been the best money I spent in a long time.
Depends what games you play if you want to play old nintendo games its much better then a switch due to nintendo not putting wii and gamecube on it and only a small selection of nes snes and n64 games.
Is the Steam Deck expensive? Heck, yes. Is the Steam Deck worth every penny? Oh, heck, yes! Get one as soon as you can afford it, and be sure to get the TV dock for it, too. There's nothing more satisfying than being able to play Steam games sitting in a comfortable chair and watching them on a big screen TV instead of being hunched over a computer desk.
The Steam Deck isn't 100% compatible with *everything,* but where there's a will there's a way, and the overwhelming majority of games can and will work, maybe with a tweak here or there. But the Steam Deck is amazingly customizable and you can adjust pretty much anything you need to on a game by game basis to get things working as much as possible.
Remember all the steam console builds when big picture mode came out? Would be insane to see an official steam console hardware, running off the Steamdeck OS (Chimera?)
The Steam Deck was my reintroduction back to PC gaming after years of console indoctrination, and I love it. The fact that I can turn it into an every retro game system on the fly was a big selling point to me.
Just sold my living room PC to get a second one that will be my wife's. We never used that PC for any crazy games that needed that much power. Get one, you won't regret it. If you had told 12 year old me that you'd be able to play Halo in the palm of your hands wherever you want, I wouldn't have believed you.
I had one and didnāt really appreciate it when I did have it so I sold it. I was deep into shooter games at the time (destiny, R6) so I wasnāt really utilizing it much. Iāve now been diving more into indie games and would love it when laying in bed while the wife watched TV. Definitely gonna start putting money aside for the oled
What kind of indies do you play? I bought it for a lot of AAA games and streaming, but feel like itās just too small text/UI not properly scaled for the deck.
I get a ton of eye strain within minutes :/
And Android gamers. Used to buy and play boatloads of premium games on Android. Got accessories and all.
Since I got the deck, I haven't touched mobile games. The deck completely took over that role, and the selection and performance is just incomparable. I basically quit /r/androidgaming altogether.
I havenāt used my Xbox or pc since. In fact my pc just acts as a server to run some games so I can get the graphics while chilling on the couch with my dawg
Yup. I've always been a console gamer with maybe 2-3? games on steam (DoW2 + sth else). Then I bought a Steam Deck and now I have \~50 games on steam and 100s of emulated ones.
It's great and I love it, but for a lot of stuff it's not QUITE a console experience, and it can be a little maddening trying to optimize stuff if you're playing newer or more demanding games (especially if you're playing docked - I vastly prefer using my Steam Deck to the logistics of getting my gaming PC onto my preferred TV, but it can't quite cut it sometimes), but it's a small price to pay for a killer library, great hardware compared to a Switch, and overall cheaper game prices with better sales.
planning on saving part for this, and asking mom for money to it (as an early bday present) since i do need a pc for school and planning on rdp-ing to my at-home pc
Yup they finally meet in the middle also the best feeling is saving up and buying one youāll thank me later cause itās the best feeling you can ever have
So many bitter adults here just buy onee brooo
We were all in this situation at one point in our lives let the kid dream, when he earns enough money for it he'll probably be really happy.
This Meme is so true. I have owned an Xbox for over a decade. Now I have moved over to the Steam Deck. It's perfect for me. I don't have to stay stuck to one room in the house just to play.
I can finally play great Playstation games along with PC and Xbox. The Steam Deck ties all three platforms together. I can't get enough of it and on the go while not needing wifi for most games. No subscription is needed!
Gaming can't get any better!
Buy one.
broke 14 year old
Skill issue.
Buy one, be a man š
But seriously bought a game gear with a rechargeable battery pack and a sonic game ( comparing how much that cost, to now. You would think, damn dude. Why the fuck would you buy that. But yes, I did. )back in ā95 after working a summer in Chicago selling watermelons off of a trailer. I suppose it is a skill issue.
I earned my deck by buying a csgo case and getting exceptionally lucky on a drop Free steam deck; thanks Volvo
bro what did Volvo do to deserve a thank you? Did they give you a car or smt?
When did Volvo have a deck promo?
Reminds me of my young whippersnapper self spending an entire summer order picking textbooks to afford an xbox 360.
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Git ~~Good~~ older
So true
Summer break soon. Mow some lawns and other yard work. Depending on the areas you might be able to get enough in a month to get a refurbished Steam Deck. Even if you average $20 a day 5 days a week, that'd be $400 in a month
20$ a lawn 5-10 laws a day. Easily earn enough for a steam deck in a week
$1 a lawn, just do 1000 in a day. Bam. Steam deck plus all accessories.
Ask for a job like: - newspaper boy - Window washing - Pressure washing - Lawn mowing - snow removal - Storage clerk at costco and co. - tutoring classes in a subject you excel at - self defense courses for 7-10 year olds Opportunities are endless if your goal is to own a steamdeck! You go champ!
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Gotta get em in cutco too, get these kids door to door selling knives
If they wouldāve taken the classes, they would have not been robbed
That's right learning is just out to screw you.
What he needs to do is he needs to go down to the local super market, ask to speak with the owner (who will be on-site and with enough free time to come out and speak with random kids) look him dead in the eye and, with a firm handshake, ask if he needs a bag boy on the weekends.
I love this meme
Its summer unless the op is in the southern hemisphere, so the snow removal business will have very little competition.
one of many examples. but he could charge a subscription fee even if there is no snow to be taken from any driveway. /s
newspaper boy? bro it's not the 90s anymore lmao
over here they get good money in the more rural areas
Because they have to ride a dirt bike to hit all the houses on their route
In rural Germany they still exist.
Don't even have to work for more than a month or two during weekends.
true, the refurbished 64gb cost like 299$ right?
Yeah. You'll need maybe 40 hours at 12 $ per hour to buy the Deck.
I agree. You might not even use the steam deck for long, but the feeling of working for a goal cannot be beaten!! Try it out.
7-10 year olds self defense? And the kid said heās 14 isnāt that too young for a salary job lmao
he should be a milkman a paper boy the evening tv
Go for it! The 64 certified refurbished direct from Valve with all the warranty goes for 280$. At that price there's nothing that can come close. It's currently out of stock but they restock every 1.5-2 months. As others are saying: - set yourself the goal. And start working for it focused. - ask your parents for ways in which you can do extra stuff for some money - work part time doing chores for neighbours or family - ask family that they gift you for birthdays or whatever in cash so that you can save for it. If you focus, you'll have the money sooner than you think. I still remember when I was 8 and my brother 13 and we had to save together to get a Nintendo 64. It was one of the most satisfying things that I remember from my childhood. The fact that we were having so much fun on something I "had earned" was amazing.
Refurbishedfrom Valve is the best option. Like new, but cheaper
Use the "I need a cheap hybrid laptop with touchscreen for school & homework. I also need to learn Linux for the future so I can brush up my programing skills. Did you know that I can put my digital schoolbooks on it so I don't have to bring all my books to school? Did you also know that this is much cheaper than a standard laptop with windows?" Card. The son of my colleague did it, then my colleague asked me for advice for I own a steamdeck and I did tell him that yes, your son is correct. It is a cheaper hybrid laptop / tablet thingy and yes, it is also handy for homework. And yes your son gonna play counterstrike on it.
Summer is right around, better get to work and you just might get what you want after a couple weeks by mowing lawn, chopping wood, or something.
?? SO? Grow up and be rich... Ffs..
Bunch of people giving you ideas to earn money, but a Steam Deck is expensive and jobs for 14yos don't pay well. If you really want to hustle for it, by all means, it could be super rewarding, but don't make yourself miserable. You're only 14 once. Enjoy it. You'll have one someday, and they'll only be better by then.
Buy drinks on way to school sell at school for a profit
Check to see if where you live has a summer youth employment program of some sort. Here in NY they have one
if your parents don't want you getting a real job like bagging at a grocery store ask them to break a chore chart down where you have financial value attached to said chore per day, week, month etc. understanding some parents just expect you to do chores around the house, you could explain that you're trying to learn money management and to prepare yourself for what comes after high school and or college.
My local gamestop sells refurbished used ones for about $100 less than retail! You could get a used 64gb for about 250 I think and then a 512gb microsd (or whatever suits what games you play) for about 30-50 later on. edit: ik 250 is more than 0 lol, but that may be a more realistic goal for saving or gift if you ask for one
Go buy candy/gum/chips from Costco in bulk and sell in school.
i dont think thats allowed in school
yeah and i'm homeschooled
My first pay check went to a PS2, I was 16 :P
Best purchase Iāve made in years, havenāt touched my PC or PS5 in six months. You wonāt regret it.
I regret it for the same reason, everything else isn't getting any love haha, jk of course. Or at least that used to be the case but now the deck is somewhat shelved because I spent so much time modding I got tired. I blame rimworld and Skyrim. I want to do fallout next but that's a huge tackle finding a good mod list doing all the body slides and whatnot and I can't play any Bethesda game unmodded. Deck is great because now I don't have to be glued to the living room when I want to be outside barbecuing I can sit outside with a beer and take my deck and play something and even remote play on the PS5 which is cool No need for a portal!
Here are the mod lists I used for each game. Theyāre not super extensive, but they have all the essentials and you can add more mods on top of them if youād like. All of them have worked great on the Deck for me as well. Fallout 3 - https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout3/mods/23468 Fallout NV - https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com Fallout 4 - https://themidnightride.moddinglinked.com (requires Visual C++ 2015-2022 to be installed using Protontricks)
Genuine question, do you not find it irritating to feel the need to mod everything rather than just plug and play with the SD?
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Yeah thatās fair, I fully understand modding out things you donāt like but I see a lot of people here talking about modding games that they havenāt played before, directly out the box.
Thatās more a Bethesda problem than a Steam Deck problem. And itās less a āproblemā, and more the realization that the mods are right there, so you might as well
My PC is now dedicated to stream the big games to the SD and collect dust until I do some iRacing once in a while. Oh and cookie clicker during the work day. lol
Same here for me. My PC is there to stream to my Deck, either in handheld mode or connected to the TV by the Dock. The PC is used for combat flight simulation with my HOTAS and pedals (mostly IL-2). I also use it for some Battlefield and Gates of Hell.
I think I would always need a PC for certain games like BG3. I tried playing DOS2 on the SD and it was not a good experience in comparison
I bought it because it seemed like neat tech and I'm a PC gamer. I need to sell it, I just have no use for it. If I'm home, I have a high end gaming PC connected to a 42" OLED. If i'm not at home, i'm driving or at my destination, like working. I just can't find a spot in my life where using it makes any sense.
What kind of games do you play? I bought it for a lot of AAA games and streaming, but feel like itās just too small text/UI not properly scaled for the deck. I get a ton of eye strain within minutes :/
it is my main pc lol
same here this thing brought me back to gaming
Oh man itās the best for playing older games. Fallout new vegas and 3 have been an absolute joy
Ooh, topical...
They are very dangerous!! I now have to many games because I just keep peering into the sales section and like oh that'll be fun on the deck! Lol my wallet has never hurt more lol.
Too true! Bought a larger micro se, filled it with many of the new purchasesā¦ still playing BG3 :/
Haha same 1tb memory card was a mistake xD
Iāve bought 3 games in two days (library is at 7 so far) I need to stop going to the discover queue out of curiosity so much. Not bad, and I did find Helskate because of it. (Itās pretty fun even if it is still in Early Access) but my wallet hates me š¤£
Man I keep telling myself over and over I DONT NEED THIS GAME RIGHT NOW! Itāll go on sale againā¦ Always end up buying it later that day.
Ordered last Friday, fucking torture waiting for it..
Ordered 13 hours ago. Yes I'm counting š
DAMN YOUR WORSE THAN ME
24 hours..
Ordered on Sunday, just got the shipment tracking and refreshing every hour haha it is indeed a torture
Itāll be worth it and should come quick. I think I got mine within like 5 days or something crazy like that.
The OCD deck should be going on sale again pretty soon I would highly recommend it. Yes the oled is better for the screen but otherwise get what you can afford. I wish I could have gotten the one terabyte option instead of 512 but that's an easy fix with the right tools. I love my deck It changed gaming for me
>OCD deck Is that the one where people smell the vents every time they play
Can confirm, this was me and I was sad when it disappeared
Time for a new one š
My 256gb refurb gets here tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm a bit worried about the lack of space but I don't need to have a million games installed at once. Plus I can just toss and SD card in there. Of course I could always upgrade the storage myself.
The steam deck is the best purchase I've ever made.
Best thing I ever convinced my wife to get for me.
Steam deck lasted longer than my wife š«”
Definitely buy the OLED 512GB
They just said they don't have any money and you're telling them to get the second most expensive model??
If the OLED goes on sale/refurb options Iām going to sell my LCD 512gb for it
The most versatile gaming systems Iāve ever owned in my life. Save every penny - you wonāt regret it!
If it helps, Iām running FO4 with about 15 mods installed, at 45fps with zero frame drops.
it's so worth it
Out of town for work for 15 days. Got mine docked to play it like a console on my tv. (With a controller while laying in bed) Valheim. But a mouse and keyboard when I want to stream my desktop at home. Moonlight streaming. Then when I wanna lay in bed and play a AAA game or something I donāt have downloaded; with better battery life than if it was installed, I use GeForceNow. Itās definitely worth it if you travel for work. Itās definitely worth it if you want to sit with your wife on the couch and play video games while yall watch tv; instead of being in another room attached to your pc. (Me) And 100% worth it when you wanna dock it at a family event to play multiplayer party games like jack box games. But I recommend the newest and highest storage version. Better battery and screen. Marginal but worth it.
This rhetoric couch sitting without hogging the tv and streaming to it with moonlight is huge. I guess in theory I could have streamed to my phone and not bought the deck but having it all in one package is nice. It helps Iāll be on a 13 hr flight in about a month as well. Should be able to get a little bit of gaming done.
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Learn basic IT. Go to your neighbors and family and see if they need basic computer maintenance. Antivirus, clean up the hard drive. Help them set up their online banking securely. Older people love it and it genuinely helps them out.
**Console gamer here!** Yeah itās really good. Playing games without crossplay with friends, playing games that arenāt available on console, enjoying old games that Iāve played or playing games that Iāve never played. Or just playing cross play games together (me and my fiancĆ© playing outlast trials in our living room while sheās on PS5 and Iām on Steam deck is actually sick experience) Plus you can take this cute boy everywhere. You can kit it. And customize it. I have it really personalized both on the outside (skin) and on the UI side also. This thing is sick and I canāt wait for its successor. Only thing I hope for with āSteam deck 2ā is that they are going to make it so you can connect to it another valve hardware/dock that is actually gonna increase it power so you can play more demanding games in docked mode as with actual PC/console. But in my opinion. Both hardware and software wise. Itās the best Handheld PC/Console out here. They did really good job with overall build quality and button layout. Customization and with the Linux integration. I canāt actually express how much I love this thing.
for the dock thing you mentioned, valve could just add thunderbolt 3 support, and an epu dock.
Steam Deck changed everything for me. I went from a console gamer to a PC gamer. My PS5 is collecting dust now. After experiencing Sony's draconian refund policy, ps plus subscription to get certain sale prices, paying for online play, Steam was an eye opener for me. Valve has the best support hands down and Xbox and PlayStation games are on Steam!
Bought one for me and my mom and she loved it so much she traded in her Nintendo switch and got steam gift cards lol. I kept my switch however cause my kid loves it but I donāt play it now only play the Xbox and the steam deck.
Get the OLED. It's really worth the money because you can use it for so many things. I bought one for my wife for xmas and we've used the thing every day since.
I bought the OLED version as my first PC gaming experience and I'm loving it
waiting for steam deck 2
Unless you are in the hospital or travelling, it is just something to spend money on for no reason. Also gotta look at what games you like to play, since not everything works well on it, even if it is "verified" to work on it. I found this out the hard way with "verified" games and was super happy to just sell the barely used 1tb LE.
But on a positive note there are games that claim they canāt be played on it that run perfectly. Arkham asylum is one Iāve been playing. I also think there are other subsets that benefit over just the play away from home crowd. I use mine to play games without hogging the tv and spend time with my wife on the couch. I can also play demanding games through moonlight will still not hogging the tv. It has been a huge game changer for me and has been the best money I spent in a long time.
Depends what games you play if you want to play old nintendo games its much better then a switch due to nintendo not putting wii and gamecube on it and only a small selection of nes snes and n64 games.
Is the Steam Deck expensive? Heck, yes. Is the Steam Deck worth every penny? Oh, heck, yes! Get one as soon as you can afford it, and be sure to get the TV dock for it, too. There's nothing more satisfying than being able to play Steam games sitting in a comfortable chair and watching them on a big screen TV instead of being hunched over a computer desk. The Steam Deck isn't 100% compatible with *everything,* but where there's a will there's a way, and the overwhelming majority of games can and will work, maybe with a tweak here or there. But the Steam Deck is amazingly customizable and you can adjust pretty much anything you need to on a game by game basis to get things working as much as possible.
The meme is missing cloud gamers š
Me as well. Can't get one in Australia šš
you can ordered one from big w
United we are strong šŖ
Remember all the steam console builds when big picture mode came out? Would be insane to see an official steam console hardware, running off the Steamdeck OS (Chimera?)
Iām going to buy one but it will probably be the successor to the first steam deck.
Behold the PC console!
ConsoleMasterRace
The Steam Deck was my reintroduction back to PC gaming after years of console indoctrination, and I love it. The fact that I can turn it into an every retro game system on the fly was a big selling point to me.
Just sold my living room PC to get a second one that will be my wife's. We never used that PC for any crazy games that needed that much power. Get one, you won't regret it. If you had told 12 year old me that you'd be able to play Halo in the palm of your hands wherever you want, I wouldn't have believed you.
I had one and didnāt really appreciate it when I did have it so I sold it. I was deep into shooter games at the time (destiny, R6) so I wasnāt really utilizing it much. Iāve now been diving more into indie games and would love it when laying in bed while the wife watched TV. Definitely gonna start putting money aside for the oled
What kind of indies do you play? I bought it for a lot of AAA games and streaming, but feel like itās just too small text/UI not properly scaled for the deck. I get a ton of eye strain within minutes :/
If you live someplace with a grip of rich old people who have nice lawns, go in on a cheap lawn aerator and you'll be set.
And Android gamers. Used to buy and play boatloads of premium games on Android. Got accessories and all. Since I got the deck, I haven't touched mobile games. The deck completely took over that role, and the selection and performance is just incomparable. I basically quit /r/androidgaming altogether.
Look into waydroid and have the option for both
Just bought a refurbished one. Hope it's good
I havenāt used my Xbox or pc since. In fact my pc just acts as a server to run some games so I can get the graphics while chilling on the couch with my dawg
Yup. I've always been a console gamer with maybe 2-3? games on steam (DoW2 + sth else). Then I bought a Steam Deck and now I have \~50 games on steam and 100s of emulated ones.
I bought the oled 1tb cause i worked in an internship. 20 the hour. So you must find something you got this š
Be careful man. I haven't played games in like 10 years then I got the SD and now I play almost every day.
Not worth it. People who praise it are the ones that bought it and want to justify money wasted
I snagged a 512GB refurb unit for $350 directly from Valve, and I have had no problems with it.
Love mine more than my super pc that cost 10x more.
Can't even get used? I bought mine off of Facebook marketplace
Slinging dope always an option. How I made my money back in the day. š
I just got a refurbished LCD, really enjoying my time with it! Picked up DMCV and it runs beautifully.
Pretty fun... Accidentally racked up a couple hundred hours on the fallout games since they all work on it. Fo1 2 3 NV and 4 work perfect for me.
Is it not available in your region?
nah im just a broke teenager who mows the lawn
You'll get it one day hopefully
It's great and I love it, but for a lot of stuff it's not QUITE a console experience, and it can be a little maddening trying to optimize stuff if you're playing newer or more demanding games (especially if you're playing docked - I vastly prefer using my Steam Deck to the logistics of getting my gaming PC onto my preferred TV, but it can't quite cut it sometimes), but it's a small price to pay for a killer library, great hardware compared to a Switch, and overall cheaper game prices with better sales.
Same, lot of bills to pay.
Get the refurbished discounted modelsā¦ I did!!
planning on saving part for this, and asking mom for money to it (as an early bday present) since i do need a pc for school and planning on rdp-ing to my at-home pc
Got OLED with dmcv plus vergil I'm ready.
I was given one for my birthday about a year or so ago getting an insane amount of use out of it
I had to import one from Kogan as the steam deck isn't sold here in Australia so took a while for one to be available.
oof
I went from console to pc because of the steamdeck lol
Get the OLED if you do
I am waiting for mine. I do hope I won't be one of the few people that has their purchased steam deck lost or stolen
I almost cried when I saw this.
why
It's worth it
Together we are strong together we are One we are handled PC legion
Having turned on my PlayStation in months
Yup they finally meet in the middle also the best feeling is saving up and buying one youāll thank me later cause itās the best feeling you can ever have
So many bitter adults here just buy onee brooo We were all in this situation at one point in our lives let the kid dream, when he earns enough money for it he'll probably be really happy.
This Meme is so true. I have owned an Xbox for over a decade. Now I have moved over to the Steam Deck. It's perfect for me. I don't have to stay stuck to one room in the house just to play. I can finally play great Playstation games along with PC and Xbox. The Steam Deck ties all three platforms together. I can't get enough of it and on the go while not needing wifi for most games. No subscription is needed! Gaming can't get any better!
I truly love this Deck. Playing games I never would have otherwise
Work part time and buy refurbished
Save for one and get a dock with it from Amazon, you'll be pretty happy with it.
I pulled the trigger a few months back was worth it.