Plastic? Huh.

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Oooh, does SteamOS have a builtin battery health indicator or how did you get that value? Would be cool to know. :)

KDE shows this is desktop mode.

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Stellar Blade is lovely. I know it's frowned upon in some parts of the West to appreciate pretty girls these days, but luckily the rest of the world doesn't care.

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I would love to have a steam deck v2 that has a dock to which I can attach an external GPU. I could still enjoy handheld mode with lower resolution and lower graphics settings but also have the option to play on a big 4k screen with higher graphics settings when docked.

Exactly this. Nintendo has shown a handheld/living room hybrid is an excellent proposition and thus a Steam Machine could be composed of a SD2 and an (optional) dock with a GPU hooked up to the TV. None of that DIY nonsense, an official dock with a single GPU config supported by Valve. I'd be all over that.

Also, while they're at it, they should get rid of the 16:10 screen ratio, it's only causing problems. Peoples' TVs are 16:9 and a _gaming_ handheld should retain that.

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It seems that ray-tracing will be a requirement, so be prepared for a "non compatible with Steam Deck".

Indiana Jones requires ray-tracing and runs on the SD just fine.

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I'm looking forward to not updating its firmware from my Steam Deck.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: damarrinMy issue with the SD is whenever I want to switch from handheld to TV I need to close the game and then basically reconfigure a bunch of display settings.

If you set the game resolution to Native in the Properties tab, you shouldn't need to turn the game off to change the display settings, just go to the in-game settings after plugging it to the TV and you should be able to change it on the spot.

In theory yes, but I've found many games will still display incorrectly, in particular due to the aspect ratio. So I just close and reopen.

In any case, a 3rd (4th if you count nintendo, but it's a different market, really) player on the console market is more than welcome.

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November next year is awfully far away. I don't think Valve will care that much about an anniversary, Win10 going out of support is an interesting time frame and obviously the shopping craze before Christmas is something to take into account as well. So my money is on a summer reveal and a September launch.

I will like a Steam Machine. My issue with the SD is whenever I want to switch from handheld to TV I need to close the game and then basically reconfigure a bunch of display settings. An SM permanently hooked up will solve that very nicely and elegantly for me.

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I still have a bunch of these. Not the Sorcery series, sadly, I'd read them but they were not mine. That was before I'd learned that you never returned a borrowed book. I lost so many over the years /o\

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Well, you might not notice or care about the stuff I found so annoying.

OTOH, I lost interest in the Walking Dead show very quickly, but enjoyed every last bit of the game series.

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