Honestly, it kinda makes sense with the detachable controllers. It's essentially a very powerful tablet. It's less practical but it serves a different niche than the Steam Deck IMO.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I get it, but it wouldn't be a handheld anymore. What's a handheld if it makes your arm tired after a couple of minutes? Plus, the battery life on this thing is going to be abysmal with the 55wah battery they put in it.
This is the kind of thing you take with you on vacation in a motorhome at a campsite. Situations where a PC is not practical but you're stationary enough to not have to worry about the size or the battery life.
Makes sense. I can see me doing that. Lol
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Smart move. People keep buying ridiculously oversized phones. Smaller ones somehow do not sell. So why not apply the same concept to tablets
As much hilarious as smartphones, increasing screen size bit by bit over 6", but never reaching 7" cause that would make them tablets, I guess?
A laptop does not support attached controllers for hand-holding. Seems pretty obvious.
I cannot hold my hands in the air indefinitely. Even completely empty my arms will get tired after a few short minutes, much less several hours. My Steam Deck gets held on my lap or on a table or something like that.
OneXPlayer has something similar that I actually considered buying (but ultimately didn't for several reasons) that includes a keyboard and (laptop) trackpad and a pen. If I can buy 1 device that can do both handheld gaming and also laptop productivity, I can save a whole lot of money...
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Even SD is too big for me after all. Would be nice to have a handheld with the exact power as SteamDeck, but compact
even with the tiny switch screen we played smash ult on it in kickstand mode with controllers in the break room. turns out if everyone uses dual joycon you get mad input lag before reaching max players. surprisingly playable if everyone can see.
with a bigger lug like this that would be a nicer experience with less squishing together
I love the joycon aspect.
You know the fun thing? If they managed to reduce the roughly 3+ centimeters of useless bezel on all sides the size wouldn’t be so unreasonable.
I'm surprised about this - phones, monitors and tvs have this figured out.
I'd have to assume it's a cost thing.
I've doing bezels play an additional role of protecting the screen. My most fragile monitor is the one with almost no bezel-- a tiny bump and kaboom, fucked monitor. I'm sure that plays a part in the design decision.
Everyone's hating on this but I can't wait to get one used in 5-10 years. Looks pretty cool to me personally.
I'm always a fan of companies making something new rather than the same old same old (identical black rectangles being the classic example). Yeah a lot of them are terrible but I think they get points for trying!
this is basically the oversized razer kishi pro with an ipad mini.
ive got that rn and it's pretty amazing as a steam link device.
steamos really needs to fix their steam link code, it's a mess.
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If it's not too too heavy, I'm not opposed.
Bigger screen will make touchscreen typing on a keyboard less of a PITA
Some games require rarely typing into the on screen keyboard, and as much as I like my ROG Ally, the small screen makes the onscreen keyboard a real pain to type on
Honestly what I'd like is a secondary N64 style center back handle that I can hold with 1 hand while I type with the other, to make the typing way more stable.
Awkwardly holding it out on the left side way off center fulcrums it as I type, which makes it less stable. You need some genuine wrist strength to fight against that lever action while typing.
So, instead, I usually awkwardly rest it in my lap while I try and type so it's stable at least. But this moves the screen a lot farther away so now I gotta squint at the small ass letters as I aim and type. Makes me feel like a goddamn boomer having to adjust my glasses and squint at the screen.
So... yeah I dunno, I feel like this is something that could use a better solution.
I guess I could use my Tap XR... 🤔
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Finally, something I can read VN text on