In case you’re out of the loop, the old Steam Deck had Philips screws that screwed into self-tapping plastic holes. This lead to occasional stripped threads and often stripped screwheads....
When I get my new OLED the first thing I will do is crack it open and swap the SSDs. Partly because the other one has all my data on it and it be an eternity to move it over and partly because the old one has already been swapped for a 1TB.
I really have no idea what this comment is supposed to be about. Do you think companies like Apple don’t make buckets of money from their app store? Or their subscription services? Do you think they “need” to charge exorbitant prices for their hardware? Do you think they “need” to strike partnerships with their suppliers to ensure they can’t sell their parts to anyone else? Do you think they “need” to lock them down so that even if you’re able to obtain third party parts, they still won’t work?
Corporations don’t care about “needs”. Their goals are to extract as much money from the consumer as humanly possible.
That is incorrect. Apple sells a wide variety of software and subscription services, including ALL apps in the App Store, with a whopping 30% share of any app purchase or in-app purchases, much like Steam.
Valve’s business model is to sell software
Valve could just as easily decide they want to profit from the hardware, just like Apple. Especially now that they’ve sold several million of them. They choose not to.
You can argue that Apple’s business model is antiquated or suboptimal
It is absolutely neither of those things. They have a brilliant business model. So much so that they’re able to sucker people into paying 100%+ more than any of their products are actually worth while simultaneously pissing in their faces and telling them it’s raining by building in a locked ecosystem, disallowing the users to decide what software they want to use, and making their hardware almost completely irreparable.
It’s hard for me to imagine there are too many improvements left to be had in the hardware, other than the obvious eventual future improvements in power, efficiency, and energy density.
I’m tired of companies building expensive headsets with processors built into them. It makes no sense. They’re too heavy, uncomfortable, and inefficient. Just stream the video. Whether it’s from a local machine or over the internet, I don’t care.
I am very much not a great player and didn’t have much of a problem until the very end with Hartman at which point I broke down and looked up some strategy and then finished it on the first try.
The biggest challenge for me was having hardware powerful enough to play it at decent settings and without frame drops.
How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate....
Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.' (www.pcgamer.com)
Rant: Valve's new Steam Deck screws speak volumes about their ethos.
In case you’re out of the loop, the old Steam Deck had Philips screws that screwed into self-tapping plastic holes. This lead to occasional stripped threads and often stripped screwheads....
Valve says it is committed to the Steam Deck, has a "road map" (www.axios.com)
Valve says "technology doesn't exist" yet for full Steam Deck 2.0 (www.eurogamer.net)
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