As far as I’m concerned, the Dualsense is the Steam Deck controller.

Not quite. My PC is more powerful than my PS5 so that’s where I still play all the AAA graphical showcase-type games. That said, I have been playing almost exclusively indie games since I started using my Steam Deck…

Sounds like you already have everything you need.

Valve claims 30-50% improvement, reviewers say closer to 50-60% improvement, and based on my testing, the reviewers’ 50-60% estimate is more accurate.

I’ve never really understood the appeal of collecting physical games. They cost SO much money second-hand a lot of the time, if they’re on disk, they better be in great shape, you need the original console in working condition, you need to store all those games in a storage shelf or something that takes up so much space, you need all those consoles to be plugged in to some sort of complicated AV switch system or something, and after all that, you get to play your retro game collection at glorious 480i 30fps, if that.

Or, you can put practically every retro game on a few micro SD cards, and boot them up on your Steam Deck or PC, often running flawlessly and with enhancements. Or better still, they have a native PC version!

No. VRR is very much a “nice-to-have” bonus feature, but in a battery-powered device it’s largely unnecessary. It’s a much smarter idea to have a game run at a lower, stable frame rate and reap the battery life savings. VRR is intended for having your device literally run at its max performance the entire time so you can get the maximum number of frames it can possibly generate, and actually display all of those frames immediately after frame generation, which would be a silly thing to do most of the time on a Steam Deck.

Don’t. Steam Deck hardware isn’t optimized for VR - the Quest 2 standalone can run VR software better than Steam Deck. If you want PCVR, you’re best off with a full-fat Windows desktop machine.

You’d need someone with two Steam Decks to test it, but I’m pretty sure that would work, as long as it’s the same Steam account.

The only game in this list that I play is Persona 5, and I’m not a fan of it’s startup movie. Kinda bummed.

I think a Persona 4 Golden themed startup movie would be really cool, though.

I honestly, unironically completely agree with that post. Even if it is satire. And I hate that about myself. But here I am.

I don’t much care about performance - Steam Deck is performant enough for the smaller indie games, and even a decent handful of recent AAA games that aren’t frand visual spectacles. And for those new, gorgeous games, I’d rather play them on my desktop PC anyway at 4k. If I want them while I’m lounging, I can stream them to my Deck.

But the Steam Deck’s screen SUCKS, and the battery life is terrible. That’s honestly why I’m more excited for the Steam Deck OLED than any “true” Steam Deck successor.

The OLED has huge improvements in the display, power draw, and wireless/streaming departments, which is a big deal for me. I’m upgrading to the OLED model, and honestly, when an eventful “true successor” launches, I’ll probably skip it until it gets a price drop.

…Unless it has a better docking solution. If they add another USB-C slot at the bottom for drop-in docking, that might be the thing that gets me to buy it right away…