I'm a no. I can't afford it and if I had the money, I'd save up a extra for a proper laptop.

Not yet, but I'll probably buy one once it ships and more reviews will come out.

Handheld Linux console is a cool idea. Though I'd focus on GOG games on it.

Last edited by Shmerl on 31 October 2021 at 8:25 pm UTC

I’ll use it so much. Just last year I was thinking about a diminutive portable Linux device and now here it is! I’m excited like I haven’t been since I was 7 just before Christmas.

Not getting and wont be planning. If i want to play games, its on my desktop PC with keyboard+mouse or my wheel. Never really been fan of controllers, handheld devices or consoles.
I hope it's sells successfully though.

Last edited by Xpander on 1 November 2021 at 1:50 am UTC

No. I don't even have a Steam account, besides, I'm not given the oportunity -- it is not available in my country and likely will never be (none of the previous Valve's products were).

But why should I? I have a desktop PC and all my daily trips are either on foot or involve riding a bike. No need for handheld consoles.

Last edited by Alm888 on 1 November 2021 at 11:05 pm UTC

First: no one has "pre-ordered", people have placed a reservation. :P

Technicalities aside, no. I would like a Deck, it's probably the first gaming console I'm interested in since the Game Boy Advance, but it's not an option in many ways.

It is not available in my region, so I don't even have the option. But even if I did, this is a huge expense for my standards; I don't tend to use the latest and greatest hardware, I use my devices until they fall apart (sometimes even longer :P ) and getting a new phone or laptop requires careful consideration. I wouldn't buy in to a new device before it is even out, even if I happened to have the money now. And, well, I don't have the money now. xD Certainly doesn't help that exchange rates have skyrocketed recently.

I'll probably try to replace my very old computer and phone before I even start thinking about buying a much more superfluous device like a gaming handheld.

First: no one has "pre-ordered", people have placed a reservation. :P

So pre order then

But even if I did, this is a huge expense for my standards

Unfortunately this entire hobby is going beyond a lot of peoples means. The prices are just nuts!

I won't be getting one, not because of any criticism of the design or freedom vs non-freedom, but because I've never really been into mobile gaming. Gaming just isn't important enough to me to have on the go.

I did place a reservation, and now I'm having mine. Reservations, that is. Don't want to jump in too quickly, and also, I already own a Nintendo Switch, which I love for 1st party Nintendo games, so if I get the Deck its use will have to compete with the Switch. And, honestly, I don't have the time for that. Even if after a post-pandemic world I was to start travelling more often, probably one would suffice. And the price is also something I can't really afford right now without a lot of other compromises. So, yeah, probably I'll pull back from actually pre-ordering for now.

But even if I did, this is a huge expense for my standards

Unfortunately this entire hobby is going beyond a lot of peoples means. The prices are just nuts!

Back in the days of the Moore Law, we just had to wait for a few years and the cutting edge got cheap. These days that is no longer true, but the big companies still want everything to go obsolete after a couple of years...

Last edited by eldaking on 2 November 2021 at 10:51 pm UTC

Unfortunately this entire hobby is going beyond a lot of peoples means. The prices are just nuts!

Yep. I've actually stopped buying games in 2021. Not sure if I'll buy anything in 22. Even less sure I'm actually missing anything...

I'm a no. I can't afford it and if I had the money, I'd save up a extra for a proper laptop.

Gaming on a laptop sucks, though.

This pool really needs *It is not available in my region* option...

Well, if there would be some decks available through gray import, I will think about it next year. Mostly out of curiosity and to support sales a bit (if grey import counts for it). I'm not expecting to use it a lot, honestly.

I have placed a reservation...

I just want to have it.

Did a reservation.
I just hope it becomes successful so that Linux Desktop gaming can profit from it.
For it's actual use by me: there's some older / rather low end (regarding graphics / resource usage) games I actually think of playing on it, but I'll still prefer desktop for the "good stuff".
And I hope the Linux environment of it will be well enough supported, also by community repos, to run some standard Linux apps and simple OSS games on it.

P.S. I just wonder why it's not shown in my steam wishlist when i set the platform filter to (native) available for steamos/linux..... that doesn't make any sense... at least for me...

Last edited by peta77 on 3 November 2021 at 8:31 pm UTC

I'm a no. I can't afford it and if I had the money, I'd save up a extra for a proper laptop.

Gaming on a laptop sucks, though.

Never been a huge problem for me. And I can do a lot more than game on a laptop, too.

For me, it's a return on investment. I can't afford both, so what can I do the most on for the longest time?

I’m actually wondering if I can move my mobile computing to it. Hook up to a monitor/kbm at work and the same at home and play some games in the mean time.

I haven't reserved one. A handheld console is interesting, but takes a distant second place to my desktop pc for gaming. Certainly the fact that it runs Linux (or whatever OS I install) and I can play most of my Steam library on it elevates it far above any other console. I value freedom, privacy, and actual control of the devices I own. I despise Android, iOS, Windows, ChromeOS, MacOSX, and similar proprietary products for not doing exactly what I want them to do.

In the (far) future I might get one, but I have priorities to upgrade my desktop pc (cpu, graphics, etc) first.

I’m actually wondering if I can move my mobile computing to it. Hook up to a monitor/kbm at work and the same at home and play some games in the mean time.

Well, they've announced a docking station (sold separately) also, which is supposed to provide you exactly that possibility. You just need to hope the battery has enough capacity and recharges fast enough if you're using it almost constantly.

I’m actually wondering if I can move my mobile computing to it. Hook up to a monitor/kbm at work and the same at home and play some games in the mean time.

That's an interesting prospect! I never thought of this, but how many monitors can the Steam Deck run? May I ask, what would you do for travel? Bring a monitor/kbm along? I imagine a screen ought to fit in a laptop bag, right?

I mean I totally understand if your job doesn't do that, so it might not be a consideration, but it is an interesting idea!

Come to think of it... If that dock is small enough... One could connect it to thier second, third, whatever monitor at thier workstation for when times get slow... We'd just need a "boss" button to pause the game and get the monitor to switch back to the workstation desktop.

Not that I'm advocating playing games at work or anything... But I do remember when games had a Boss button for a reason, lol.