Follow up:
120$ canadian for a dock & a reserve queue. Too pricy for me.
Is there a good reason to buy this over the much cheaper third party ones?
@Gigglemoo I had to return the 0603 Jsaux dock because just having it plugged in (even with the SteamDeck powered off) interfered with my soundbar’s HDMI-CEC functionality and it drove me crazy not being able to control the volume with a single remote…
I was going to buy the official one to see if it fixed this behavior, but now that I see the price, I’m going to pass as well.
I just bought a JSAUX dock for $44 Canadian on Amazon Prime and it works great. The Deck charges while I play on the big screen too.
The dock is way too expensive.
Now that there’s no queue, my decision not to buy a Steam Deck is gonna get put to the test.
I kind of figured this had to be coming. When I cancelled my 256 and switched to a 64 gb, my reservation came up in 2 days.
Sure, buy a Hootoo if you want a cheap one that works fine. If you want fit and finish buy the original one. Valve themselves are encouraging 3rd party sales
They’re in stock. I wasn’t going to get one. Really.
…I just got one.
The dock has zero appeal to me purely because you have to flip that little cable over and plug it in. It’s such a clumsy design. I already basically have the dock experience by propping my deck up on its case and plugging in the power cable.
Yeah, I’ve had a nice JSAUX dock for a couple months now. Would’ve probably bought the Valve one if it was cheaper. The JSAUX one looks great and the only difference is it doesn’t have a DisplayPort.
I mean, they go away just fine on desktop Arch, don’t know why they wouldn’t on nearly the same software on the Deck.
You bastard. I’ve played 4.1 hours of this in 2 days. It’s so good.
(just one more run)
You’re good! Be nice to yourself; this hobby is supposed to be fun. Just do the parts you like.
Yeah likewise. It’s so dumb, but so good.
Once you’re bored of vampires there’s another 50+ bargain-priced clones of it to play:
Got my steam deck the other day. This thing is a total game changer for my video game consumption. It’s been a few years since I’ve enjoyed gaming while sitting at a desk in front of a computer screen. Now I actually want to play all of these games that I’ve been collecting over the years. And mostly everything plays great. This is easily the coolest portable gaming device I have ever used.
So for the experts here, I’m going to pick one up and want to do it all at once. What are the recommendations? Big boy 512GB worth it? Or 256GB fine?
Well, I am putting in a 256gb in mine.
I think that the consensus has been, 256 is fine, games run off the SD as fast or nearly as fast as the SSD. The extra 120 bucks for more storage, a slightly nicer case and some different glass is up to the personal preference.
There are 0 hardware differences that change games performance between the SKUs, it is just a matter of more storage or premium extras being worth the extra cost to you.
Where do you game with it? On the couch? On your bed?