I’m mostly docked, and I love the low power of the deck as I live off grid.

However, also look up Look up Minisforum Neptune HX99G, which is to be great for gaming. I want to get something like this eventually, and then retire my steam deck to a mostly emulation handheld machine.

Depends a bit on what you want to play. Older stuff, emulation? Turning your Steamdeck into an SNES-PS1-PS2-XBOX-WII-GBA-Switch-whatever-machine with a huge library is very easy (if you know where to find the roms, but you’re on Reddit, so…). And even if you don’t travel much, it can be nice to be able to play in bed or on the couch.

In my opinion no. Just get either a desktop in the same price range as that will vastly outperform the deck in performance while giving a better gaming experience on a larger screen. Deck should be bought mainly for handheld gaming, which is where it excels, just like the other PC handhelds.

No build a budget PC

I wouldn’t get the Steam Deck for only playing docked.

I would either upgrade my PC or keep my money and save up for a new PC build.

My PC is way better then the Deck but it is totally worth it.

I Just Love to Play with a Controller on a big Screen. Before the Deck my Steam Libray Just gathers dust. Now its my Favorit gaming device. The last year I mostly played docked. The Last weeks I fell in love playing Handheld while watching some Stream or something.

So yeah its definitly worth it.

Maybe an Xbox series x?

Yes and no. I mostly use mine docked, but it’s showing its age.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s really decent, but i’m looking into getting a mini pc with a more powerful GPU, since the steam deck can’t play newer titles.

Depends on what games you play docked due to the decks lower resolution being stretched out on a monitor or TV. Emulation, indie, and less beefy games sure, or newer titles if you don’t mind it looking like a ps3 Era game with muddy visuals

Did they actually fix the dock? As on some screens/TVs it just didn’t connect and you had to do some “workarounds” with the power cable.

I have a M1 Mac and bought the deck as my Gaming rig. Really good investment as I primarily play it docked. I don’t have time to play it outside but inside, if I can play I play whatever on it.

CS2 and Dota2 runs well. Alongside Apex and emulators.

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Well if your pc is lower spec than a steam deck then you would have a pretty awesome computer upgrade. The deck is quite capable even at 1080p and it has the benefit of being a great all in one handheld. Enjoy yourself if you do decide to.

Probably not. The main benefit for the steam deck is that it is very portable. For this you sacrifice upgradeability and connectivity. The steam deck only has one usb-c port. Yeah you can expand your ports using a dock but it still isn’t as good as having a desktop computer.

If you don’t plan on making use of the portability that the steam deck provides then there probably aren’t many benefits for getting it compared to just getting a desktop pc or a laptop.

With tweaked settings and 30fps lock, i usually have quite a great time with rdr2. It can drop to like 28fps in cities, but since im not using all low settings, it probably can be improved to a lock 30 everywhere.