PS Portal vs Switch Lite
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Saves on the electric bill, too.
Typically it's more cost-effective to play smaller, less intensive games on the Deck than your big gaming rig.
I carry a gaming laptop. Sometimes it complains that plugs don't have enough power, lol
The steam deck seems optional when I have a tablet and a PC already on me.
That's something that often goes unnoticed. I don't even necessarily pay attention to the power bill, I don't like dealing with the heat. I'm in a hot climate and this time of year I most definitely don't want to be running an 800W heater constantly. Despite the fact that it makes the PC build so much simpler because I'm not having to go to autistic levels of detail to get that much heat out of that little space quickly enough. My system runs on less than 300W total and it's find. I don't need to chase a few pixels, because if I'm honest 80% of the time can't tell the difference between 1440p and 4K in gaming, and that's on a 65" 4K OLED.
Don't have a Steam Deck though, because I don't care about handheld at all. I just wish everything PC gaming wasn't "OMG moar heat to dissipate"
Can't count how many times I've absentmindedly used my desktop as an extra heat source. Which almost never works out according to plan though there have been exceptions.
Yeah, for me if I want to play a game with all the pixels in 4K I will play it on the gaming rig. But otherwise, I don't need to play games like Starbound or Prodeus in 4K.
If you're poor enough that that is a concern you don't have the money to waste on a device that is exclusively for gaming to begin with.
Not really. It's just a waste to use a massive RTX GPU in 4K for games that don't need it.
If people don't really care and want to run up the electric bill just for the heck it, then fine. But if you don't have to use massive wattage on games like Super Indie Karts or some 2D platformer, then why do it?
I have a bunch of gadgets some might consider to be useless, but it doesn't mean I throw money away where I don't have to.
Frugal =/= poor.
The 10$ extra a month on the electric bill does not outweigh the cost of a dedicated piece of shit device like a steam deck. You are not "saving money" by buying one of those toys, that's nonsense.
It was actually about three times that amount.
Never said that buying one was about saving money, just that using it for smaller games is more cost effective than using the dedicated gaming rig.