Firstly sorry if this is like hundreds of other posts, but super torn and thought there wasn’t a better place to ask

So it’s nearly Christmas time and my mother is asking me what I want, I have literally no clue to the point where it’s bugging her but a friend suggested a steam deck and I mentioned it to her and she said she’d be willing to give me some money towards one (I’d never let her buy me it, far too much for Christmas). Okay, cool. Nice, with work, it’s affordable.

My only issue is, whilst I think the deck is really cool and I know I’d enjoy it, I don’t really feel I need one

I don’t travel too much (I did at the start of the month before breaking up w my partner), I have access to my PC a lot of the time and mainly would be worried that I wouldn’t get enough use out of it. I already own a switch but haven’t touched it in a while because I ran out of things to play and the cost of Nintendo titles was a no go.

I have a huge steam library and know there’s many games I could enjoy but just looking for some tips on if it’s actually worth spending the money and if people think it’s a good idea?

Cheers!

  • VitaAtThreeFifteen@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Here are a few reasons I love the Steam Deck.

    1. It is so easy to pick up and play. If I have a few minutes I can jump on to whatever game is currently in standby and start playing. I don’t have to sit at my desk and wait for the PC to load the game. I have definitely chosen not to play before because I didn’t feel like doing that.
    2. The standby feature I mentioned above. I can pause any game for an indefinite amount of time, and continue later. I have played more open world games in the last 5 months than I have over the last 10 years.
    3. The control customization. I am only just dipping my toes into this, but you have so many options for customizing your controls. You can remap anything and you have several extra buttons, and pads that you can map controls to. You can create turbo buttons so you don’t have to deal with button mashing events. There are just a bunch of settings that I don’t even know how to comprehend the options I am presented with. I think it is the future of how we should configure controls in gaming.

    I am rambling at this point. I’m not saying you should get a Deck, but I am saying that I have never regretted getting one.