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It is still stupid to want something so bad you are willing to pay double for it...No one needs anything. But people want things.
Its a bloody handheld game console....
It is still stupid to want something so bad you are willing to pay double for it...No one needs anything. But people want things.
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.
If you remember the launch day, A LOT of us couldnt purchase it as the servers were being hammered and many including me were constantly getting payment failed at the last hurdle or steam not adding the steam deck in our baskets at all. This is why i only managed to go through an hour or so after the release date and time...I feel like there is an element of fomo going on here. One of the biggest selling points for the steam deck is the price, once you whack a few hundred extra quid on and you've suddenly got a load of competition, many of which have better specs.
I do have the feeling though that the queue isn't quite as long as people think. Lots of people are making a lot of them only being through 20 mins of ordering going live. But I wouldn't be surprised if like 75% of the orders came in the first hour, and were going to start seeing those order times getting later and later pretty soon.
Valve claimed that production is ramping up as well. And I think its telling that amd just announced new laptop chips with suspiciously similar specs to the steamdeck soc. So I do think paying over the odds now is gonna feel like a waste in a few months time. Or at least I hope that is the case.
Did you just kept clicking on continue button on the payment screen?
Can't even get the "reserve now" button working
Im stuck on the payment method screen just an endless loop
It's now telling me that payment is failing to initialise
Utterly useless. Ive been trying every second since 6pm and just hitting a brick wall of errors.
see here.finally got my order pushed through
I feel like there is an element of fomo going on here. One of the biggest selling points for the steam deck is the price, once you whack a few hundred extra quid on and you've suddenly got a load of competition, many of which have better specs.
I do have the feeling though that the queue isn't quite as long as people think. Lots of people are making a lot of them only being through 20 mins of ordering going live. But I wouldn't be surprised if like 75% of the orders came in the first hour, and were going to start seeing those order times getting later and later pretty soon.
Valve claimed that production is ramping up as well. And I think its telling that amd just announced new laptop chips with suspiciously similar specs to the steamdeck soc. So I do think paying over the odds now is gonna feel like a waste in a few months time. Or at least I hope that is the case.
Yep! Well.. mine went through just after 6pm. So I was happysee here.
Many of us struggled to order on 6pm on the dot
i had a similar experience i got an email at around 9ish to say my order had failed and they needed more info logged back in re ordered and it worked but that was around 21.15pm so still a long way to go for meYep! Well.. mine went through just after 6pm. So I was happy
Checked phone later and they issued a refund for it as something went wrong so I then reordered at like 20:30 so I'm a ways off yet
I feel like you guys are agreeing with me, after the first hour the order servers seemed to quiet down a lot, as @jonneymendoza says.
And yeah if you were to spend the 1100ish quid that the 512gb steamdeck is going for on ebay you do start running into handhelds that can put up a fight with it as @Martini1991 says.
Look im not saying I don't think tge steam deck is great and I definitely want one. I just really don't think paying scalpers is going to do anything but hurt your wallet. Specially now that were a few months in and are long past the "being one of the first to get thier hands on it" phase of the roll out and the queues are getting shorter and shorter.
Huh, out of my 1060 games on steam, 250 are already verified and plenty more are perfectly playable too (incl. stuff like Cyberpunk or Kingdom Come).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….
It is still stupid to want something so bad you are willing to pay double for it...
Its a bloody handheld game console....
I wouldn't knock anyone for paying over the odds for one, but as someone else said, once you start adding a few hundred quid on top of the RRP you're entering a more powerful tier of existing products.
GPD Win 3? Certainly a more usable form factor.Where?
Because of the RDNA in the steam deck it's extremely powerful.
Name a product one can buy right now for £800 that's better?
GPD Win 3? Certainly a more usable form factor.
Don't get me wrong, I'm getting one to see what it's like, but it's not the be all and end all, certainly when you have people paying 1k for them.
You can if you buy direct - they're actually very good to deal with.I can't see a GPD Win 3 for £800.
And again, it has to smash up to like 29W to sometimes beat out the 15W Steam Deck, and then you've got driver considerations to take into account.
Honestly, if someone ships an RDNA 2 device at £800 then by all means, the Steam deck isn't worth it at all, but right now that's not the case and even the scalped prices still get you a solid device at that price point.
I only stop myself buying a steam deck from CEX because I'm concerned about the current cost of living lol.
Actually no.
There's no available competitor which uses RDNA GPU.
The Aya Neo Air at £600 will perform wayyy worse than the deck (Albeit better in certain areas like screen)
The Air may become DOA thanks Ayn's new handheld. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ayn-loki-portable-pc-windows
Apparently they will offer reservation like steam deck. My Odin us barely getting any use and I've got a deck on the way.Sounds good to me.
Once one of those are available for purchase I'd bite