Many are happy with the LCD still and don’t see a mid-generation (performance gain was negligible) screen-swap worth a few hundred additional dollars, but I’m very happy you do, and glad you are enjoying it!

Whatever happiness I experience while using my deck comes from the games themselves and being able to play them away from the desk, and next to my wife.

Black Desert regularly goes that cheap, I think they get most of their money off cosmetics/semi f2p.

Just wait for Christmas sale.

A steam-link for Playstation getting 8/10 when its essentially a phone with controllers attached? Fair enough on steamdeck getting a 7 on first launch.

I have to assume when I see this sort of thing that they are not technical at all, or money has exchanged hands.

Step 1: Buy Deck

Step 2: Steal your bf’s phone when hes not looking, if he got steam guard on, just point the camera at the login screen, you can log in as him.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

If you want to play any normal AAA game (excluding indie pixel software rendered things - but sometimes even those), the difference in power consumption is not even a challenging comparison - a desktop CPU alone pulls more wattage than the deck under maximum load (2-4x deck), before we even get into GPU power usage (usually 10x the max usage of the deck). If you are looking to save on that power bill - a mobile system that has to worry about batteries will always save energy that a desktop won’t.