And while those flashier, more powerful gadgets have hit the handheld PC gaming market in the form of the more modern ROG Xbox Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go 2, the Steam Deck's obsolescence is yet to arrive.
The Steam Deck is so convenient
It is genuinely difficult to sell quite how convenient the Steam Deck is.
But prior to purchasing my Steam Deck, I had my own gaming PC, along with a PS5 and the already-portable Switch 2 (and formerly a Switch 1), leading me to put off buying the Deck for months, if not years.
On the surface level, it is quite nice being able to just pick this thing up and boot up a game, rather than going through the admittedly not-at-all-hard-but-still-a-little-bit-annoying process of turning my PC on, but the Deck has facilitated far more than that.
I can sit in the front room, being a normal, social human being, spending time with my flatmate watching Ken Burns' The Vietnam War (for some reason), instead of locking myself away in my room.
Just this weekend, I played through the entirety of What Remains of Edith Finch on the train to Liverpool, a game that has sat untouched in my library for years – this thing will make you play those games.
Lossless Scaling is a nifty little tool that you can buy on Steam for £5.89 ($6.99 for my Yankee friends), and it is magic.
It's the FPS equivalent of the 'downloading RAM' meme, except by some miracle, it's real.
But considering you're playing on a much smaller screen than usual and somehow running Cyberpunk 2077 at 60fps on a Steam Deck, it's often quite hard to notice and even harder to care.
AI has ruined everything
Not content with laying people off, destroying the environment and making us dumber, the insatiable appetite of AI has now come for PC parts.
The same is now happening to SSDs, GPUs, CPUs and more. Basically, if it goes in a computer, you're going to be paying a premium for it right now, and it's all thanks to AI.
Whether you want to build yourself a new PC, or simply upgrade your existing one, it is currently the worst time since the pandemic to do so, and it doesn't seem like it's going to be stopping anytime soon.
Under these circumstances, the idea of a fully portable Steam-based PC for less than the price of an RTX 5070 is hard to ignore.
If you're like I was, then you probably already want to buy a Steam Deck, and you're just reading articles like this in the hopes that someone will tell you to just go and buy one already. Luckily for you, I am more than happy to fulfil that role. Just go and buy one already.
The Steam Deck is available to purchase directly from Steam.
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