Valve's new SteamDeck - arriving Dec 2021
Play all your PC Steam games using a handheld device, thus Valve made a mini-PC - more info here: https://www.steamdeck.com/en/?snr=1_4_4__118 Hardware: https://www...
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As expected of Valve, they won't let Australians order it.
We still don't have the Index, apparently it might be launching here in august, the price difference between US and Aus orders is more than the cost of a Quest 2. (It's going to cost us $1900au. The Quest 2 64GB is $479au)
From IGN's interview with Valve:
IGN: Can I play VR off of it?
Pierre-Loup Griffais: I mean, it has all the connectivity. You would need [a lot] to do that, but that's not really what we're optimizing the performance for.
IGN: So you can try it, but your mileage may vary.
Pierre-Loup Griffais: Yeah.
It's certainly interesting. I'm mainly interested in it for my students (could be an interesting platform to dev for).
I'm still more interested in the Dragonbox Pyra (hopefully mine won't take too much longer to build). But I'm not really a mobile gamer. I don't play phone games, I have a switch but it's only for my nieces, I don't use it myself.
UploadVR also has a short article quoting the same Pierre-Loup Griffais and mentioning that SteamDeck isn't aimed at VR, even if it could work for some titles:
