There's a fee to place your reservation at $5/£4

... which is taken into account if you buy, or fully returned if you don't.

I really need to buck up about this device! :grin:

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Quoting: GuestMore likely Valve only allowed IGN to look at it if everything reported was favourable, and in return IGN have seen a lot of traffic driven their way. That's not exactly an uncommon arrangement. A critique point is also another trick: it's a critique, but once tried oh everything is perfectly fine and the device is wonderful (you can trust us because we raised a critique). Seen that many, many times before.

That might or might not have been the case here, but I can't see how it justifies a definitive "That's a marketing video."
I'd trust my local game magazine (especially Gamestar) not to do such arrangements, but I don't know much about IGN.

We'll see what the box can do...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: GuestNothing shown was particularly impressive to me either. Portal2 isn't really the most power hungry of games, but it does explain why they put a Vulkan backend of sorts (adapted DXVK) into it: would make a massive difference on a handheld

There are videos showing Doom Eternal and Control running on it too. You forget that it's a 1280x800 display, so would require less power than a 1080p display, for example.

Death Stranding, too.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa ha! yeah whenever I hear Gaming Laptop, I think "so an overly large chunk of laptop, that you can't ever upgrade, and will be obsolete in a year or two, assuming it doesn't overheat and die sometime before that."

and that costs 50% more than a equivalent desktop... pretty much it.

... and, maybe the most important, doesn't even work unplugged (for more than say an hour). ;)

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Quoting: GuestThat's a marketing video. It's supposed to make it look like the best thing since sliced bread. What's more, it's from IGN. So I really wouldn't trust what's being said.

Well, firstly I trust more in what's being shown than what's being said.
Then, they do mention critique points, e.g. about the buttons.
So I wonder... why do you say it's a marketing video?
Are there signs of IGN being paid for it?

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Quoting: SadL

We’re working with BattlEye and EAC to get support for Proton ahead of launch.

So we can hope for something good on that front before December (hopefully)! Which is really exciting!!!

I read "ahead of lunch" first. :D

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Quoting: GuestOr to stream them from something more powerful. This thing might be overpowered for dosbox level games, but it will be underpowered for a lot of modern games. Depending on your definition of modern. Just don't expect miracles from it.

No miracles, but... Did you watch the IGN hands-on? Seems it can do quite a lot, probably due to the comparatively low resolution.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyNobody expects a thing like a Nintendo Switch to be a Windows PC. I don't think they need to sweat that a whole lot.

Situation is different here. Valve is saying (or at least people are hearing): "This will run your whole stream library!" People will point fingers on every game that doesn't run like on Windows.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: damarrinUsing this for old games is really not the point, I think.

Why can't it be the point?

You're free to choose your point of course, but the point of the device is to run current games, otherwise it would be quite overpowered.

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Quoting: CyrilI can't watch the video, because blocked in my country... but it seems it's the trailer.
What the issue about it? It's the film itself?

The trailer seems ok to me. Especially annoying was Netflix' US poster, compared to the French one...

https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/netflix-deeply-sorry-for-cuties-poster-after-backlash-for-sexualizing-kids/ [External Link]

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