AnonTwo

To be fair, only a handful of publishers were able to take their cards and go elsewhere. The media companies were a lot more on top of dragging their products off of Netflix.

Nobody would be on steam just for Valve games, after all, and indie has a much lower barrier of entry.

While they could certainly distribute their current products better, a lot of the issues they have now (see: belated frogs comment) aren’t things they really had control over.

It kindof starts to snag in the GCN/PS2 era. Smash Bros Melee never gets to an adequate point for me, and Soul calibur 2 usually is fuzzy with slowdown on the windmill-esque level.

I don’t think I was able to get soul calibur 3 to work too well. The dreamcast version of PSO is much smoother than the GCN version, though GCN version is generally good enough.

Dreamcast/N64/Playstation era I’d say is the sweet spot where games aren’t going to have many issues that they wouldn’t have elsewhere.

Technically the mini retroarch is also on linux, but that’s not what people think of when they think “I want to run it like I do the steamdeck”

Like you said, not enough for steam games. technicalities don’t leave people feeling happy.

Technology isn’t there yet.

There’s certainly handhelds in the PSP go form factor already, but they use much smaller OSes than the steamdeck uses, and still have to make sacrifices usually.

Like you’d probably just get a quick-boot to a retroarch variant for emulation and thats the entirety of the OS you’d get.

Generally I add installers using “add non-steam app”, then once they install successfully, remove it and instead add the executable that was created.

Proton can do it correctly just it’s a PITA navigating the folders to make it work.

Lutris can work but some of it’s scipts are outdated or not made with steamdeck in mind

I mean…sure you should be able to wait on the updates, but that’s not that common once you actually do the updates. And it’s not as if you don’t do updates on Steam deck (You absolutely should, and the flathub apps have tons of updates at least weekly when I run them)

To be fair that’s the older LCD model, not the OLED the article is discussing, which is 549 minimum

That’s not moving goalposts, you’re just arguing semantics. People generally think of eliminate when they say prevent in this kind of conversation…

If anything if they went “prevention” and not “eliminate” like in your sense…it would be even dumber because it would just make the steamdeck a more restrictive x86-processor computer compared to the systems people were already comparing it to up until it’s release

Imagine how it would’ve gone down if people were saying “Of course you can do that, it’s a PC” if people responded with “Yeah, except it’s 10x harder to do things you could normally do on PC”. They wanted it to be close to how a PC is, it was part of the advertising campaign.

And if you’re going to flaunt your title you should probably actually…you know…say something that pertains to that knowledge you have.

This just seems like blind fanboyism. As great as the steamdeck is there’s no reason to act like it’s doing things it’s not actually doing. It was designed the way it was because it had to be, there doesn’t need to be anything whimsical about it.

The…arm-based systems that use a different kind of BIOS?

If even Apple isn’t doing it on x86, I don’t see why Valve would start.

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No they couldn’t, it’s fucking Linux. They’d have to tie the controller drivers hostage to “lock it down”, and at that point they’d hit so many hiccups with legitimate users.

Like they’d have to pull so many things from Linux (in particular Proton) to “DRM-ify” the steamdeck.

And as I think someone else just posted, some of the stuff they’d need to lock-down aren’t even things Valve has control over. Like I said Proton but Valve doesn’t own proton.

I’m assuming it just does config for you like a lot of the other emulator related stuff on steamdeck does.

Not really, it’s more internet in general. And if we look at social media, they have accounts as frustrating as crunchyroll to fully delete but without anything to pirate.

Like it’s a fair complaint but, to be fair

If you’re trying to delete your account you’re already going to a different provider (in this case, piracy), so it’s not like you would’ve happily come back to Crunchyroll just because they let you delete your account easier.

Some piracy sites do have accounts, just mostly small-scale.

Most of this complaint really doesn’t have to do with piracy…I mean a lot of account sites don’t even have anything to pirate.

Could be luck, but of those I only found Viewtube and Freetube to be responsive at this time of day to a live stream (the others either loaded endlessly or said they couldn’t load the page)

That was only of the web/desktop ones.

Freetube seems to support youtube chat as well, which the others don’t.

Actually i’ve seen a lot of posts (mainly for competitive games) where people just don’t want to buy a game without a kernel anti-cheat. Mainly care more about their games being fair than security.

This will be nice, but it’s pretty much a “You only need it when you need it” kindof tool, due to being pretty highly specialized.

Plus I know some engine remakes are still not quite there, like the Theme Hospital One (mostly presentation, gameplay mechanics are all there) and the Warcraft 1 and 2 ones (again mainly presentation, especially when it comes to Audio which is just run in soundtrack mode and includes menu music)

I’d imagine they could add ScummVM as well, but it’d take a lot of time to figure out how to get all the files into the right places probably, since I doubt every ScummVM game does it the same.

Another point is the steamOS is still fairly new and needs to be worked on a lot more, since it isn’t even fully utilizing the steamdeck yet, let alone ready for a new one

I’d love if there were ways to use the controller and have the steam deck acknowledge this mode. Maybe then allow the monitor on the deck to do other things in the meantime.

The controller on the deck is actually different though.

It’d be good if they can eventually make a controller that is actually based on the steamdeck’s controller design.