Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyOf course, one needs to actually get a hold of a Steam Controller, first...

My reservation is from May 9, and 3 weeks later no invitation to purchase yet...

I managed to reserve one my for my wife and I under our respective Steam accounts on May 8th (May 9th Australian time) - I even managed to do so a full minute before the reservation time, according to all of our Internet-connected clocks... But still nothing for either of us! 🤬

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Of course, one needs to actually get a hold of a Steam Controller, first...

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Quoting: kellerkindtThey should add Tag to indicate (temporary) price increases (similar to the sales tag but instead of a discount it should display a surcharge) to the Steam Deck listings. Then show the original price and slap a "+50%" with a link to their announcement to it XD

There's no way they're going to return to the original price of the Steam Deck... It's simply not going to happen.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboydevelopers and PlayStation alike have shown very little interest in it.

I guess it's a question of catching the fad at the right time. Remember PlayStation Move, when they needed to compete with Wii's sudden popularity?

PlayStation Move actually ended up being really useful when used in combination with PlayStationVR (the latter was specifically designed to make use of it, presumably because there wasn't much interest in PlayStation Move as a stand-alone product)... I still have my PlayStation Move controllers around here.

But you're absolutely right - timing is everything.

And I'm not yet convinced that the Steam Frame will get virtual reality to take off... But it might catch some of market share with its other uses, such as the ability to stream movies wirelessly from a giant "screen" pretty much anywhere there's an Internet connection. If it spurs interest in virtual reality again though, great - I'm the guy that still believes the Holo Deck is the future of entertainment.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI just want to buy the original again... But strangely, they never sell it; only Doom.

Sure, I've almost certainly got a copy or two of this around here somewhere - but it would be nice to have a 'prepackaged' version from GOG.com or Steam.

You mean this one?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/9010/Return_to_Castle_Wolfenstein/ [External Link]

The last time I searched for 'Wolfenstein 3D' in both Steam and GOG.com (which to be fair, was quite a while ago). it never came up... Now the entire original trilogy is there. And it's on GOG.com, too!

Weird.

Anyway, you're a legend for pointing this out. Thanks!

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyIn my wardrobe, I have both the PlayStationVR and the PlayStationVR 2. The original model had loads of support, but has such a low refresh rate and resolution that you can't play for more than fifteen minutes without severe headaches (which seems to get worse with age). I don't have that problem with the PlayStationVR2 - but there's virtually no support for it!

Ignorant question here: does the second model not offer improved gameplay for the games made for the first model? Or do the two models run on different console generations?

Nah, PlayStationVR games are not compatible PlayStationVR 2... Which is a HUGE design flaw. And 99% of the developers for PlayStationVR haven't ported their content over to PlayStation VR2, either.

From a technical standpoint, PlayStationVR 2 is pretty much the best consumer-grade virtual reality headset money can buy at the moment - and even in the industry as a whole, it's among the best as I understand it - yet PlayStation have done nothing with it, the original PlayStationVR titles are not compatible with it, developers and PlayStation alike have shown very little interest in it.

I really don't understand the logic here at all.

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I just want to buy the original again... But strangely, they never sell it; only Doom.

Sure, I've almost certainly got a copy or two of this around here somewhere - but it would be nice to have a 'prepackaged' version from GOG.com or Steam.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: Cyba.CowboySteam Frame (stupid name!).

Yeah, but what else could they call it while still keeping in theme?

Just about anything else would have been better. Steam "Frame" doesn't sound cool, it doesn't suggest or imply what the product does, and it isn't the most marketable name.

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In my wardrobe, I have both the PlayStationVR and the PlayStationVR 2. The original model had loads of support, but has such a low refresh rate and resolution that you can't play for more than fifteen minutes without severe headaches (which seems to get worse with age). I don't have that problem with the PlayStationVR2 - but there's virtually no support for it!

Hopefully the Steam Frame - which is a stupid name - will change all that.

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Quoting: scaineReserve button appeared at EXACTLY 6pm and I hit it, and was instantly told I was reserved. Simples.

Why Valve Software didn't do this from Day One is beyond me... Hopefully they don't do the same thing with the Steam Machine / Steam Frame (stupid name!).

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