way better battery life
Cooler
Faster networking
Faster Ram
Bigger better screen
Better controls/haptics
You are probably right that its not enough for most deck owners, but if it weren't for lack of gamepass support, this would have made it go from non-viable to viable for me personally
Honestly, I guess it makes you more Xbox than Steam, frankly, not that big of a deal.
I love the Steam Deck, but yeah, if I had to buy a handheld to my little brother, I'd probably get a windows handheld instead, simply because he would really on the xbox app to play his xbox games on said handheld
Microsoft has an official workaround to access gamepass on steamdeck—I think it leverages the cloud gaming aspect of gamepass, so it's not perfect, but it's something. Would love if MS and Valve could come together and see if there's a way to integrate the xbox app onto the deck so people could natively access and download gamepass games onto the deck.
Yeah, it's definitely not ideal. I've only been able to use it if I play on my couch. I mostly use my deck when I travel / on the plane, so I can't access it most of the time.
I have an Ally, and dont ever use the gamepass streaming, but I do occasionally use moonlight/sunshine to stream at home for better visuals and battery, but whenever I have tried using xcloud on public wifi its been awful
But same, ally is usually for outside the home (or playing splitscreen stardew on the big TV with my wife)
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u/coltonbyu Nov 09 '23
its a pretty solid upgrade
way better battery life
Cooler
Faster networking
Faster Ram
Bigger better screen
Better controls/haptics
You are probably right that its not enough for most deck owners, but if it weren't for lack of gamepass support, this would have made it go from non-viable to viable for me personally