Caporegime
I didn’t appreciate preorders where still not finished for day 1! I only ordered after the first reviews came out so I’m guessing next year if I’m lucky
They're barely finished the first 20 minutes of orders.
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They're barely finished the first 20 minutes of orders.
Soldato
i ordered like an hour after the release because i spent an hour trying to bloody put the steam deck in my basket to purchase that day and i stil ain’t got an email saying i can now buy the thing…
Soldato
you're probably 1-2 months away from it.. It's been moving at best by 2 minutes or so on Monday and Thursday. Some monday we saw like 20-25 seconds of orders shipped. So it'll take a while before it reaches one hour, it's on 22 mins now. So orders placed before 1822. That is the 512, 256 is similar and 64 moves a bit faster but still nothing compared to say EU shipments.
Soldato
Yea i got the 512gb version
I've not looked into it enough to be certain, but I think that it also needs to be one sided. So like can only have memory modules on the top side of the pcb. But yeah, I think it can handle both sata and nvme connection
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No. People who pay scalpers are a big part of the problem. This isn't some life necessity, wait and stop lining scalpers pockets.
Associate
Not sure how reliable timestamp the reservation email is for when I originally pre ordered my 256gb steam deck last year, but it says 18.50 (UK time) so I can only really go off that. I received my preorder confirmation email last Thursday, paid same day and the deck was delivered today by Parcelforce.
First impressions are good. Mine doesn't seem to have the coil whine sound under load which is good.
I own the original Nintendo Switch which it absolutely dwarves over in terms of size, make no mistake the deck is a bit of a unit! Weight wise the deck feels around a third heavier but after an hour of play I can't say I really noticed. What I would highlight is anyone moving from a switch lite to this will feel much more of a difference.
Just thought I would update for those of you who are patiently waiting (My fiance is one of you so naturally this one will likely become hers anyway!)
4play
First impressions are good. Mine doesn't seem to have the coil whine sound under load which is good.
I own the original Nintendo Switch which it absolutely dwarves over in terms of size, make no mistake the deck is a bit of a unit! Weight wise the deck feels around a third heavier but after an hour of play I can't say I really noticed. What I would highlight is anyone moving from a switch lite to this will feel much more of a difference.
Just thought I would update for those of you who are patiently waiting (My fiance is one of you so naturally this one will likely become hers anyway!)
4play
Man of Honour
Just got my Order Email through for the 512GB model, really torn on whether to actually order it or not now
Caporegime
Lol, I'd have it.
Caporegime
I understand what you're saying and agree.
But there's no competition at the price point of the Steam deck.
Someone who orders now really has no idea when they'll get it, it certainly doesn't sound like it'll be this year.
Soldato
Still mate, no one needs this and there Is no reason to pay over the top prices for this
No one needs anything. But people want things.
Man of Honour
Haha, I‘m going to order it, sold my Switch a few weeks ago - looks like I can also use this thing in desktop mode to use Linux (or even Windows) if needed plugged into a screen - I’ve been using a Raspberry Pi for that kind of thing over the last few months.
Man of Honour
Had a look at their ”compatibility list” surprised to see only about 8 of my titles listed as “Deck Verified“ and 3 of those are Half Life 2, HL2 Lost Coast & HL2 Episode 2….
Still Snooker ‘19 is there so that’ll fill plenty of hours….
Loads of stuff I thought would be ok on it like GTA, Assassins Creed, etc but maybe just control issues I guess.
Still Snooker ‘19 is there so that’ll fill plenty of hours….
Loads of stuff I thought would be ok on it like GTA, Assassins Creed, etc but maybe just control issues I guess.
Soldato
There’s loads of titles that aren’t verified that work, just go on YouTube and search for the game(s) you’re after and there’s already loads. For instance I believe GTA works really well on it.