I use my PS5 only for exclusives since the Steam Deck arrived

I missed like 2 console generations worth of games because Ragnarok Online and Dota/2 ate all my free time from 2005 to like 2017. My Steam Deck is now serving the purpose of letting me play all the older AAA games from that era and I don’t really care about new games unless its a new Zelda on my Switch.

This year was one of the best years of gaming in a long time so nah. I can’t think of many games this year that released broken enough for something like that.

I brought a steam deck because I like portable gaming

lol I went and got a Steam Deck as the ‘all in one portal’ for Xbox, PC, and PS5 games both streaming and on the go, and the last couple of days I’ve just been emulating Golden Sun ever since finally installing emulators

Triple A, I am so tired of this phrase. Triple A you mean beta release games with season passes.

Doesn’t quite fit the phrase of triple A. Like cyber punk was broken AF for until about now

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So true, same for me. I got the deck to play older AAA games I never got around to playing originally. Nowadays I feel like I am paying someone else to alpha test their unfinished product. I’ve had enough of it. Now I wait a year before buying a premium game. TBH, I would rather just support indie developers.

AAA games are not more expensive than ever btw

I dont buy games on launch day anymore except for rare exceptions like ToTK. With the Canadian dollar being weak, new games are now $94.99(Dragons Dogma 2) before taxes. Since getting a Steam Deck I’ve been able to tackle my backlog and just buying games that are on sale.

Luckily I rarely play newer games unless they are cheap or lighter than usual triple As, so the Deck is perfect for what I play mostly.

Same, got it for cleaning my backlog and emulating. And damn is it doing an amazing job. I’ve even been able to play some new games such as RE4 Remake with decent graphics and performance, though I played it on my PC first for the highest possible fidelity. Thanks to my Deck, I’ve played the following:

• Half Life
• Half Life 2
• Portal 2
• Zelda BOTW (Would have never finished it on my PC)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (streamed from my PC, would have never finished it either)
• Little Nightmares
• Metroid Prime Remastered (Replay)
• Super Metroid
• Metroid Zero Mission
• Metroid Fusion
• Finally got 120 stars on Super Mario 64 (Render 96 port, Replay)
• Ghost Recon with the Heroes Unleashed mod (Replay)
• Conker’s Bad Fur Day
• Finally finished Banjo Tooie.
• Max Payne 3 (Replay)

Fair warning you’ll need to do some workarounds to get assassins creed working properly

I have a crazy backlog of steam games + single player PS5 games I will stream with chiaki4deck. My OLED steam deck is going to get some use.

I’ve already been playing Cyberpunk and it plays and looks much better than it did on my LCD model.

I don’t buy games on release because of my backlog. I don’t have time to play everything as it comes out so I naturally end up playing them 6 months to a couple years later. Bugfixes are just a positive coincidence.

I got the SD OLED to complement my desktop because it is the only PC handheld in its class that is well built with good customer support and backing. All the other options are missing features, have defects, or have abysmal customer support. The LCD was the only thing keeping me from getting a SD.

Luckily, not everyone is buying AAA games on release day and waiting for discounts instead. That’s the rule I usually follow for the AAA games I buy because that’s been the trend for some time now, where it goes full price and then, it’ll get cheaper months later.

I still own a PS5 and Steam Deck and don’t see any reason not to have both since not every AAA game on Steam Deck runs great because there are compromises in performance or graphics while at the same time, the PS5 would run those same games better. Also, you could remote play from the PS5 to Steam Deck if you wanted to, which makes it nice to have both.