Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWhat about the price difference between a PCIe Gen 3 x4 vs PCIe Gen 3 x2 SSD of the same brand?

Same stick from same manufacture from different supplier/locations have different prices (~10% or more).

Listings of PCIe 3.0 X4 all over the place: speed from 3000 to ~1000 (same NVMe or M.2), price too. Feels like everyone hiding what type of memory cells are (SLC, MLC TLC). Most PCIe 3.0 X2 at similar speeds (~900 MB/s) and price, memory cell type(?). Some x4 cheaper than x2 other more pricey (same capacity).

Make you own conclusions. Myself, x2 or x4, kinda do not care what much. External CPU cache was lottery back in the day, HDD with same serial number/date had different chips, RAM never been 100% identical and so much more. It's not like buying 8 core high performance CPU, but getting 4 core mobile one...

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Quoting: setzer22Still, I think a deck with 1TB storage would be an absolute beast. With many AAA stuff being over 50GB nowadays, 250 feels a bit too limited, having to uninstall games to fit others all the time.

Why get bigger storage? Why buy more memory or get faster CPU/GPU every year if a lot of problems (bloat, optimization, bugs, memory leaks, just total random crap) are software ones? Just give option NOT to download and/or install 4K, 2K and other ultra high fidelity quality definition somethings... Anyways, it is AAA (others too), asking way to much in the end... still hard coding key-binds, need to edit *.ini to disable headache inducing and/or get access to useful options, unlocking FPS breaks game mechanics and physics, software released somewhere between ALPHA and RC stages as 1.0...

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Quoting: PikoloI wonder if that's a Wine regression, or something Proton changed

Or Unity engine (or some 3rd party middleware) going where it should not be and crashing because wine/proton do not take this in a count. Could be totally not malicious bug or just innocent sniffing around...

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Why some people so obsessed with multiplayer always online (specially FPS/TPS) games/slot machines? Deck fully capable of running them, but you'll never be "competitive" on controller and less so on small screen and wireless... Or just loudest bunch...

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Just another general observation. Why people demanding: Valve must take care support of 3rd party services like: EA Origin, Ubisoft (Uplay) Connect, EGS etc. It's Valve Steam Deck not Origin/Uplay/EGS/etc Deck.

Even Windows (Other) OS support not on Valve. Someone will jump on and say "but it is PC"... Most Microsoft Surface "tablets" just another pc/laptop hardware with MS Windows log on them, same goes with previous Apple laptops/workstations. Other OS support, for some reason, taken care by Linux/BSD folks not Microsoft or Apple. "Most sales on Windows" some one will say. Microsoft (Windows OS) making PC/laptops more and more like XBox One always-online DRM boxes and it will (may) bite 3rd party software dev (Steam for e.g.) and other user in the ass.

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If Microsoft Windows Deck will took off, I imagining Valve, Steam, Steam Deck support will get plenty of support tickets after some random Windows update, even Valve clearly states Widows OS unsupported. Ofc most will no disclose running Windows OS until asked.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: Purple Library GuyValve is frankly a really weird company. I'm sure all the other companies look at it and think, to quote a certain Dr. from Austin Powers, "Not Evil enough".

Why would they? Valve is nowhere near the open source contributions of other closed source companies (e.g. Apple & Microsoft).

Comparing private (game related software and limited hardware) company with few billion in pocket and few hundred employees with mega software and hardware (hundreds working on input devices alone) corporations with hundred of billions and counting employees in hundred thousand plus...

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For unimpressed lets put games on full-blown emulation (virtualization) and save state, problem solved?

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'd really like to see/know who those devs even are. 40% are developing for Oculus? No way this is representative.

Worked in maintenance and construction company as maintenance worker. Time to time we get surveys/questionnaires and all (most) of it about desk/office work... 15-20 personnel teams work outside to 1-2 in office. Not surprised if most of ~2700 surveyed "dev" just work in/with dev/publishing companies.

With no raw data to look in... BS?

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm still having silly arguments with people who believe that only when 100% of your Steam library works on Linux will Linux / Steam Deck be "ready" for the masses.

Ask them to run (on win) top 1000 games 100% or just run AAA game day one or on release week (lovely always online). Or maybe don't bother, most likely you'll get answer from zealot anyway.

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