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No doubt it will be another handheld running Windows though instead of Linux
I will game on a Windows based PC, but Linux is a must have on hand held - Windows is too resource intensive, developers are not going to be able to get the same OS optimization out of Windows that they can with Linux
This is why I chose the deck. Least powerful in the segment on paper but those Windows handhelds are not going to age well lol.
Better support plus it drives Linux as a gaming OS which I'm a fan of. The more consumers choose to game on Linux the more adoption it will get. Look at windows 11. What horse shit. 12 isn't shaping up to be much better.
Competition is always good, but I wouldn’t buy an MSI product even if it was the only choice
Yeah, you buy the Deck for the piece of mind with Valve and their support. I wouldn't buy any others just because it's like they are cash grabs on a current trend the Deck set off and none of the companies making them have the best track record for product and customer support.
Perhaps MSI's handheld will be different if they have been developing it for a while, but MSI's quality has always been cheap, so I imagine it will end up being an Ally kind of device.
I do trust Valve more, when it comes to this, but my main reason is that a lot of things MSI make are piss poor quality, and so is their customer support. From the few experiences I've had with them, I would not recommend any of their products, and unfortunately that opinion also aligns with my friends
Now if EVGA made a handheld on the other hand....
I'd buy 5
I miss EVGA :c
Their products weren't completely flawless all the time, but they really made it right, when something went wrong. I had two 1080 FTW2's. One just died and never came back to life, the other caught fire. I imagine both died because of the previously announced thermal issues, that they were recalled for. They were both replaced, and one of the replacement was also replaced again, but since they ran out of stock, they gave me a 1080ti instead. No questions asked. Just explained the situations, and a week later the new card was at home
Is it a problem with their laptops or something? I've had MSI Motherboards and GPUs and haven't had any issues.
Aw dam, everybody's jumping on this bandwagon now, aren't they? Alienware took a crack at it, then ASUS, and now MSI.
Everybody laughed at GPD for making a handheld PC, and then Valve pulled it off and now everybody wants a piece of the pie
Good, let them. Let every company take a swing, and let 2-3 actually get a serious foothold that survives as a real option, and becomes a reliable machine.
Theres only been 3 consoles for too long. I love that valve has made the steam deck into a computer console, and want to see more options and variations.
It was the same thing back when Nintendo released the Gameboy and people started making portable genesises and tiger portables
Is the market not getting saturated at this point? The non old steam deck is ridiculously cheap.
How many companies can make this work at a profitable level?
It better have trackpads.
I would give up teackpads for a smaller device. or a single trackpad on the back