What does your battlestation look like? PS4/5, XBox, PC or some oddball Chinese retro handheld?
Steam Deck.
I’ve never owned a decent gaming machine, for various reasons. Cost was a big factor. Another was the fact that I was never a big “gamer”. Very little desire to play the big, popular, AAA games in general. The games I did play, I played on a very old PC, and the performance was what you’d expect from low end hardware; but I just never had any desire to build my own gaming rig.
The Steam Deck is perfect for my use case:
- I have no desire to run Windows
- I have no desire to build my own gaming machine
- I have no desire to get locked into a console ecosystem (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc).
- I can play handled, docked to a monitor with keyboard and mouse, docked to a monitor with a controller, docked to a TV, etc etc
- I can play games built for Windows
- I can play games with native Linux builds
- I can play Steam games, Epic games, DRM-free games, emulated games, etc, etc
- I can do whatever the hell else I want to do with it. For example, maybe I might want to run Kodi on it, and connect to my Jellyfin server at home to watch a movie if I’m staying at a hotel. Whatever. It’s just a computer like any other. I can do whatever I want.
I think I’ve probably played more new (to me) games since buying my SD than in all the years (decades) previous, and I love it.
Steam Deck, it’s been great for working through my backlog.
PC, Steam Deck.
PC for multiplayer titles that require comms, and Steam Deck for everything else.
Steam Deck has been one of my best purchases to use alongside my PC. I have a Switch too, but I don’t use it much when there aren’t new exclusives. But, the Deck having the same ga,e progress as my main PC has led to constant use when I want to play on a handheld.
Same, I use mostly PC for multiplayer games and for more demanding games. I use my Deck to play older games / indies that runs well, but I have a hard time playing games with low fps.
PC exclusively nowadays. Not a fan of forced obsolescence rampant in consoles. Maybe the odd phone game to pass the time, but those are usually the most basic of games.
My vision sucks due to double vision so I have to use handheld to get it close enough to my face to see it. (the farther away things are, the more the two images split apart) So it’s Switch and Steam Deck for me.
Combination of PC and Steam Deck, depending on the game, as well as Retro Arch on my phone for the occasional Pokemon ROM hack during my lunch break
PC mainly, but a couple months ago I got a Steamdeck, and I can now play from the couch on the TV.
I’ve wanted to be able to play from the couch for a long time, but I did not want a PC on the TV, so this is a very good option.
I can play casually and also play coop sometimes easily.
Most importantly, I don’t have to be in my “office” room, since I work from home, it is good to be away from the room I am all day working on.
A laptop running Fedora Linux
I mostly use my Linux Mint PC and the family Nintendo Switch. I also have a PS5 and a 3DS which get occasional use.
My gaming desktop PC is my primary gaming rig. I run linux on there and its honestly been great, I’ve been really happy with my 7900XTX and it plays all games I want at 4K. My steam deck is a close second for portable/sofa gaming.
Wii/GameCube for me (also PC just for Slippi)
I have a full gaming rig, but mainly play on my Steamdeck - it’s so much more convenient to just be able to pick it up and play.
What games have you been playing?
Metroidvanias recently - Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Hollow Knight, that kind of thing
These days 99% of my gaming time is on the Steam Deck
Some Lenovo desktop I got on sale at Costco in December. Was waffling between AMD and Intel (GPU is Nvidia 3060), went with Intel because all my research indicated it was better performing at the price than Ryzen, but I have no idea if my use case makes a difference. I am still using a 27’’ 1080p monitor I got probably 10 years ago.
Immediately put Linux on it without ever booting into Windows. I tried to get Fedora and Pop OS working, but for some strange reason it did not work. Ended up going with MX Linux, which I love.
Mostly PC, but I recently pulled my Switch out again and have been playing on that lately.
