Great read, as always. A little broken link on the previous posts section (forgotten “]”).
Nice to see MS decided to make their (remored) pricing quite aggressive. Especially since it is sold with the dock included.
The base Xbox Ally should be as powerfull as the Deck. It is basically the same chip with 5 more watts of TDP, which can easily be done on the OG deck with a little bios mod.
The biggest one will be a serious blow to the Deck as well as other handhelds. The specs are clearly superior on all aspects, while still being very competitive. Depending on the autonomy and how much bloat was removed, I may be really tempted, despite being a pro-Linux… And probably install SteamOS (or Bazzite) as soon as it works on it.
I hope this will prompt Valve to update the Deck to newer hardware, or at least allow to officially tune up the APU power envelope to 20-25W (vs 15W currently), especially when docked, so we can enjoy higher definition gaming without sacrificing too much graphical settings to the Frametime gods (E33 looks kinda bad on the Deck, especially when docked 😂).
As a Switch 1 owner, I’m definitively gonna wait to finish my current Switch backlog, and also probably for the Oled refresh. But since I got my Deck, I barely touched my Switch, so it will probably take a long time 😆.
I knew from the beginning the art vibes where familiar. Then I saw " Spiritfarer", and I knew why 😂.
There is a few game that managed to make me tears, Spirifarer was one of them (along with Gris, Ori, and lately, E33). Yeah, I’m kinda a softy 😂.
That’s an instant buy for me.
There are multiple event right now, showing a lot of new games. So it was kinda expected. I’m considering new rules about that, should be part of the new rules proposed in the community overhaul.
In the meantime, I’ll ask him to consolidate such event in a single megathread.
Edit: after a quick discussion with simple, he/she/they will consider a megathread for the next big event. The current posts will stay up.