2,000 titles officially hit for Steam Deck as Verified or Playable

I understand what you are feeling, I'm in Q2 so between April and June it arrives, I live in Sicily so the journey is damn long! I love the idea of portable Linux as much as I love Proton, I remember when even Steam didn't go and winehq was the only way... A great year for those who love Linux...

2000 is a nice big number. But I still think they need to speed it up a tad, because it's still a drop in the bucket of all the Steam games, and it's still barely keeping up with the new games being released.

Plus I still think we need a fourth category, for games that actually, you know, don't work at all. One third of the games checked are listed as "unsupported", which looks kind of bad and as Liam notes probably doesn't reflect the reality of a lot of games--people will mostly look at "Unsupported" and assume it's not even worth trying.

Can you make the benchmark of Metro Exodus works?

I can't stop touching my DECK either. In bed, at the airport, or even in the public library...I just can't stop. My girlfriend is jealous and my friends have all blocked me for "too many unsolicited DECK pics," whatever that means.

Hopefully I can get the Deck in Q3.

I can't stop touching my DECK either. In bed, at the airport, or even in the public library...I just can't stop. My girlfriend is jealous and my friends have all blocked me for "too many unsolicited DECK pics," whatever that means.

Unfortunately I am still DECKless.

2000 is a nice big number. But I still think they need to speed it up a tad, because it's still a drop in the bucket of all the Steam games, and it's still barely keeping up with the new games being released.
Plus I still think we need a fourth category, for games that actually, you know, don't work at all. One third of the games checked are listed as "unsupported", which looks kind of bad and as Liam notes probably doesn't reflect the reality of a lot of games--people will mostly look at "Unsupported" and assume it's not even worth trying.

It would be positive if they made games compatible even faster. But I believe that their current speed is already very impressive. I'd rather have the quality of their evaluations high than have them hurry up quickly.

Both things are true: they need to increase the quality of their testing, and they need to increase the rate of their testing. And the former is the more important of the two, as you say. Luckily, game testing is very parallelisable with sufficient funding.

2000 is a nice big number. But I still think they need to speed it up a tad, because it's still a drop in the bucket of all the Steam games, and it's still barely keeping up with the new games being released.
Plus I still think we need a fourth category, for games that actually, you know, don't work at all. One third of the games checked are listed as "unsupported", which looks kind of bad and as Liam notes probably doesn't reflect the reality of a lot of games--people will mostly look at "Unsupported" and assume it's not even worth trying.

It would be positive if they made games compatible even faster. But I believe that their current speed is already very impressive. I'd rather have the quality of their evaluations high than have them hurry up quickly.

Both things are true: they need to increase the quality of their testing, and they need to increase the rate of their testing. And the former is the more important of the two, as you say. Luckily, game testing is very parallelisable with sufficient funding.

My thoughts on tge matter are that if you consider this as the amount of titles available in the first quarter of a launch for a console, that is insane. If you consider the ratio of games on Steam that are good vs games that are worthwhile to play with a gamepad, this is also insane.

People are comparing it to the amount of games on Steam, but they should be comparing it to how many actually have working game pad support, and how many just wouldn't play well on the Deck (like some of the grand strategy games)

Can't wait to get mine! Anyone know what the shipping times are like once you pay for it?

A Short Hike - Verified

You should give A Short Hike another try! They implemented a simple server mode, "An April Fools Multiplayer Experiment", where you can meet other players (but not chat or the like).

Can you make the benchmark of Metro Exodus works?

I've tried, but no matter what I try it crashes. It uses a separate exe file to lauch Exodus, which I guess Proton doesn't handle correctly.