Getting hold of an active steam account isn't difficult
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*** The Official Steam Deck Thread ***
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Soldato
Yes it is when that said account had to be active since March/April??
no one knew from back then that such a rule would be applied or even the fact that valve was about to release a new product
Xmas is gonna be good this year. Hopefully they dispatch early December. The more I think about it, the more excited I get 
Looks like it is a hit and hopefully we will get a 1080p version in 3-4 years time with a slightly bigger display. There should be a much more powerful soc on 3nm that would handle that hopefully.
Looks like it is a hit and hopefully we will get a 1080p version in 3-4 years time with a slightly bigger display. There should be a much more powerful soc on 3nm that would handle that hopefully.
Soldato
Does mean that apple's m1 chip is in real trouble now because AMD are abotu to drop the ball on them with these and future SOCXmas is gonna be good this year. Hopefully they dispatch early December. The more I think about it, the more excited I get
Looks like it is a hit and hopefully we will get a 1080p version in 3-4 years time with a slightly bigger display. There should be a much more powerful soc on 3nm that would handle that hopefully.
There are heaps of unsecured and dormant accounts that meet the criteria that can get scooped with little to no effort by anyone who would seek to take them
No idea. Bit of a different market I would have thought. For the Deck I can't see it ever using an Apple chip. It needs to be X86.
Soldato
NO there is not.
Absolute rubbish.
STeam accounts dorment are a minority to the amount of scalpers around
Soldato
im just saying AMD has a SOC capable of probably going toe to toe with a m1 chip and still runing x86 and fully fledged PC games.
I bet the battery life of this device when doing none gaming tasks is quite good
Quick google search throws up that steam had some billion accounts registered as of 2 years ago with less than 9% of those accounts active on a monthly basis
Soldato
ANd hopw do u know they were created by scalpers ready for such a drop?!?
I never said they were created by them or that it was for such a purpose, but that they by and large will lack any kind of 2FA or secure passwords. Many will be things like spambots and the like, which I'm sure for a paltry sum could be bought by whoever holds them.
Also did previous steam hardware sales not have the same active account requirement? It would only make sense to expect it on any future items then surely
Is it definitely for the same model?
Yup same model, 256gb version. I honestly think its region prioritised, like how EVGA prioritised US customers for their cards before we saw any in the UK for the first few months.
I got my order in within 20 mins of it going live (256GB model) and got Q1 2022 - You had to be pretty darn quick to get within Q4 2021.
i ordered around 7ish on pre order day after all the problems with the wesbite crashing then not allowing me to order due to the number of attempted orders etc
Didn't get my confirmation until close to 9pm saying there had been a problem and could i re enter my card details i did and then got order confirmation. Got Q2 2022 i agree with jay85 its going to be mostly the USA IMO who
will get the majority of the Q4 stock
Didn't get my confirmation until close to 9pm saying there had been a problem and could i re enter my card details i did and then got order confirmation. Got Q2 2022 i agree with jay85 its going to be mostly the USA IMO who
will get the majority of the Q4 stock
Soldato
The only thing I'll say is that I tried playing games on a phone with a controller wrapped around it (Razer Kishi), via Steam Link and Stadia, but the games for this small of a screen just don't seem to make sense. They just are not enjoyable. I'm not a big console guy anyway, as I tend to buy consoles then barely use them.
I'm curious if going from a 5inch wide (mobile) screen to a 7inch (Steam Deck) screen is really going to make any real difference to that experience. Do I really want to be experiencing AAA games on a tiny screen where I don't feel immersed? Things like platformers etc seem so much better for this setup.
I guess I'll see if I take up my reservation slot in Q2 2022.
I'm curious if going from a 5inch wide (mobile) screen to a 7inch (Steam Deck) screen is really going to make any real difference to that experience. Do I really want to be experiencing AAA games on a tiny screen where I don't feel immersed? Things like platformers etc seem so much better for this setup.
I guess I'll see if I take up my reservation slot in Q2 2022.
No and I don't think most people getting one that have a shred of sense are planning on using this to play brand new bloated AAA releases
It’s bigger than a switch and that’s fine for the big “AAA” (/vomit) games. I hated using my iPhone 11 Pro screen with a Kishi due to the screen size so an extra inch makes all the difference
