Screen is kinda small for newer, high res games but still enjoyable. More suitable to PS2 1024x968 era so perfect for emulator PS2 and earlier. For indies or 2d like stardew it'll be no problem.
Form factor is good, no problem so far with controller position. Rather big and rather heavy, not as portable as psp or nds but definitely portable.
Battery lasts only 2 hours-ish for AAA games though, much longer for lower specs.
Suspend and continue works wonder, though anticipate for hang or freeze that you'll need to save before if can.
Controls can be mapped freely for each game which is amazing, 4 back buttons works wonder to add more functionality to already limited buttons. Moreover the radial menu with trackpad is superb.
If you don't have gaming pc or laptop, you'll definitely like this, though maybe you'll need usb hub, keyboard and mouse if you want to enjoy games that doesn't support controller (sim city). If that's the case, slap an external monitor too since you'll need a bigger screen to play those games.
Otherwise you can lie sideways on couch, or I read you can lie on the back with pillow to rest your hand to play deck. Perfect for open world and action games.
Haven't really tried sd card so I don't know how flexible it is to play from it, but I guess it'll works wonder for less than latest AAA games.
> Screen is kinda small for newer, high res games but still enjoyable.
Agree. When rewriting an older game for Steam I ended up in-biggening the artwork a touch to look good on the Steam Deck. Of course the game now looks positively Duplo on a normal PC monitor now.
Can't really blame anyone, nowadays monitor really ranged from small, deck sized to big, dual monitors sized with resolution ranged from 1200-ish for older or smaller monitor to 4k.
Without adjustable ui size the text will undoubtedly be small in some instances.
Form factor is good, no problem so far with controller position. Rather big and rather heavy, not as portable as psp or nds but definitely portable.
Battery lasts only 2 hours-ish for AAA games though, much longer for lower specs.
Suspend and continue works wonder, though anticipate for hang or freeze that you'll need to save before if can.
Controls can be mapped freely for each game which is amazing, 4 back buttons works wonder to add more functionality to already limited buttons. Moreover the radial menu with trackpad is superb.
If you don't have gaming pc or laptop, you'll definitely like this, though maybe you'll need usb hub, keyboard and mouse if you want to enjoy games that doesn't support controller (sim city). If that's the case, slap an external monitor too since you'll need a bigger screen to play those games.
Otherwise you can lie sideways on couch, or I read you can lie on the back with pillow to rest your hand to play deck. Perfect for open world and action games.
Haven't really tried sd card so I don't know how flexible it is to play from it, but I guess it'll works wonder for less than latest AAA games.