Hmm, the fact that they didn't mention it specifically but only in reply to a question sounds like they got caught out by the question and scrambled to come up with a PR spin: "Oh, uh, yeah, sure, we'll totally support it if it gets big enough! (And conveniently never quantify how 'big' that is.)" But maybe I'm just cynical. :grin:

Just to clarify, I don't hate Ubisoft or anything, as I'm not interested in their games and haven't played any, so if they actually do end up "bringing their games to the Steam Deck" (whatever that entails) I'll be happy for all the people who want to play them. :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyShe's older, but as far as I can tell the younger supposedly all tech-savvy generation is pretty much the same--they're just really comfortable clicking those icons, but they mostly don't look beneath that.

A bit off-topic, but a friend of mine was talking this past week how she was teaching students in high school and had to show them how to do complicated computer things like…creating a folder to put their project photos in (it was an art class), or selecting more than one file at a time. :dizzy: Apparently "digital native generation" doesn't automatically equate to "knows anything about computers beyond surface level"! :happy:

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Quoting: fleskI would have reserved the medium model day one, but unfortunately it's not available in the EEA countries. :sad:

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt has been pointed out that the person driving the car in the image with the kid in the back seat at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/hardware [External Link] is driving it wrong. That isn't how you drive a Tesla!

How so? I've only been driving a Tesla for a couple of weeks, but I can't tell what's wrong with the image.

EDIT: Assuming it's this image we're talking about: https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamdeck/images/factorio-cover.jpg [External Link]

That looks perfectly normal to me.

My guess would be it's a joke about how you're "supposed" to be using self-driving and going hands-free, but I'm just spit-balling.

Hopefully with what seems like the massive interest shown so far Valve will step up manufacturing (to the degree they're able to do so) and introduce it to more regions soon.

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Quoting: LoftyBut the biggest question i have is at what cost is EAC / Battle-eye being integrated ? AFAIK these are extremely invasive pieces of software that many consider to be basically spyware.

Quoting: CatKillerIt's not going to be integrated into the kernel. There isn't time between now and December to get that done, even if were an uncontroversial thing that everyone agreed was a great idea. EAC already works on Linux, it's just that it erroneously detects Wine as a version of Windows that's been tampered with. It basically just needs to stop doing that. It might mean that it only ends up working in officially-from-Valve Proton using pressure vessel.

I saw a quote from one of the Valve devs (in one of the…many articles I've read in the past few days, so I don't have it to hand) that basically confirms this, they were talking in an interview as if addressing the anti-cheat software makers and saying "You'll have to run it in user space, not kernel space, but that'll still be fine" or something like that.

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Ars Technica has an article [External Link], quoting the creator of SteamDB, saying that due to some HTML data-scraping it looks like some 110k reservations were made in the first 90 minutes (before the oversight was fixed), with 71.6k for the top model, 33k for the middle, and possibly 10k for the lowest one. Obviously these are NOT official numbers so take them with a healthy dash of low-sodium salt, but they're an interesting best-guess estimate. :smile:

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Quoting: x_wingDon't forget that a lot of people have multiple accounts. It would not surprise me that we will have enough a good number of scalpers even with these countermeasures, people is quite greedy and steam accounts black market is expected at this point.

Yeah, it certainly won't be perfect, and I'm sure there'll still be people trying to game the system to make a quick buck; but we also probably shouldn't expect a single person ordering, say, a thousand units or more. I dunno. Valve may not want to release numbers if it's not as impressive as they'd hoped or for who knows what reason. It'd just be cool to have some numbers to argue over. :smile:

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Quoting: elmapulConnectivity
"Bluetooth
Bluetooth 5.0 (support for controllers, accessories and audio)
Wi-Fi
Dual-band Wi-Fi radio, 2.4GHz and 5GHz, 2 x 2 MIMO, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac"
no 3g/4g/5g? they are crazy or expect people to pair it with their phone to play on the go?

I think they're expecting people to play single player games on it when out of Wi-Fi range. Would potentially be interesting to see phone networking connectivity in a 2.0 version, though I imagine that increases the complexity considerably because now you have to include some way of handling phone plan subscriptions and such.

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Took a bit over an hour and a half, but I've got my reservation in! I assume the fact that the Steam servers were up and down for so long indicates a healthy interest. I hope Valve releases some numbers on reservations next week so we can get an idea of actual numbers. While obviously not 100% of reservations will turn into purchases for various reasons, the $5 price should at least do a decent job of limiting it to serious potential buyers; combined with the one-per-Steam-account limit should give a relatively accurate figure for number of people (especially for the reservations in the first 48 hours, since anyone making multiple accounts at this point to try to scalp units won't be able to order it until afterwards).

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I'm interested enough to put down $5 for a pre-registration tomorrow. A few years ago, I probably wouldn't have been interested—I've never owned a console of any kind and have always felt my self-built beefy Linux-running gaming rig to be sufficient. :smile: But the older I get (and hear my friend talk about playing games on his Switch in bed) the more appealing I find the idea of being able to play my Steam library on the couch, or in bed, or on an airplane, or when visiting family for a few weeks over Christmas, or on a train, or…anywhere my desktop can't come with me, basically. Very little of my library is hefty AAA-type games, so the vast majority of it would easily run on these specs without it breaking a sweat. Possibly not all of it would play well without a mouse, but again: I've got a desktop for that (or I could maybe plug in a mouse while traveling). The fact that it's a full-blown PC with the possibility of running other apps on it also makes it more appealing as an entertainment device, allowing it act something like a small laptop (being able to browse the internet over Wi-Fi on its screen instead of on my phone's smaller screen might be nice while traveling, for instance, or possibly streaming games from my desktop that'd be too resource heavy). By the time it's actually available to purchase in December we'll know a lot more about and I can decide if I want to go through with it or get my $5 back.

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I don't recall ever hearing of the Amazon Lumberyard engine before. What kinds of games has it been used to create? :huh:

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