I am currently interested in buying myself a steam deck. I mostly play AAA games, but I’ve read some posts here where people talk about the steam deck not being able to run current day AAA games very well. I’m kinda worried that the deck won’t be able to play AAA titles that release over the next 3-4 years and that I’ll be wasting hundreds of dollars if I bought one today. If I am ok with playing games at 30 fps, would it be a good decision to buy the deck now for AAA gaming?
Define AAA. Specifically, what console generation’s AAA games are you looking to play? The Steam Deck is roughly equivalent to a PS4 in terms of power. So PS4-gen and cross-gen AAA games should run fine on Steam Deck at 30fps. Games that exclusively target the current PS5/Xbox Series consoles on the console front will likely exhibit sub-30 frame rates on Steam Deck, with some exceptions of well-optimised games that can still be made to run well. And certainly don’t expect AAA games from the next generation a few years down the line to run well (or at all) on Steam Deck.
… But PS4 titles (OLD) PS4 AAA’s don’t run well. My first 3 AAA’s titles were HZD, Days Gone & later GOW - I had all 3 on my PS5 but these came at a cost of £150 on Steam.
I primarily want play AAA’s - my 512gb can’t play them well - lots of slowdown, low fps. I now play those same games via Chiaki because it trounces the Steam duplicates.
I’m going for the Legion Go once the 1tb comes to the UK market. The other way would be to put up with the limitations of my much slower Deck until the Z2 extreme becomes the new chipset to have in a year or so.
Chiaki & PS5 is a great combination, I just wanted the 8.8’ screen now, I can read all the text on screen easily, I struggle with the Deck.