Considering the increase in price, that turned out to be a very good deal. 👍

Yes of course you could use it as a PC on a desktop with mouse and keyboard.
I just don’t think that will be the typical use, but more with a TV sitting in an armchair or on the couch.
Maybe I’m wrong?
The value in having the controller included default, would only be if the price is lower for the bundle. Since the latest retailed for 99 €, it obviously shouldn’t cost 100 € as a bundled part.

I absolutely get that it makes sense that a new console comes without a controller, many people already have controllers.
But a controller is also pretty essential, and controllers get worn out too. So a bundling price of the 2 could also be more attractive for most.

Isn’t that more than 50% extra compared to when the OLED version came out, I think it was 2023?

I thought a controller was generally included with consoles?

Wow a AAA game that is praised by users for being actually good.

As I wrote they play it less. I never claimed they don’t play it. and I clearly indicated that the numbers aren’t stats, I made an example and a hypothetical based on it.

As I wrote it doesn’t mean they don’t play it, but it means they play it less.

The market they are missing out on is growing. If 4 friends decide to play a game, and 1 has Linux, those 4 will not play a Ubisoft game.
So even if Linux is only about 3%, it could hypothetically mean 12% lower playtime on their games, and that will reflect in lower future sales. Where people will prefer to buy games they play more.

Sounds pretty stupid if you don’t know which platforms you want to target from the beginning.
If development really is that random and poorly planned, they are making extra work for themselves due to poor planning more than because they chose to support the Steam deck.

Of course it is, but it’s just the focus on how the UI is made that has changed, that does not inherently make it harder. It just changes some of the design goals.

I have fucking made UI’s from scratch in assembly on a pixel basis, that were better than a lot of the crap we see today.

It’s a moronic oversimplification, and making a different approach is not the same as harder.
And just saying working harder says nothing about the ways that are described in the article, and provides zero additional info.
Sad that such low energy effort without reading the article first is even upvoted. Lowest denominator rules here. 🤮

exactly

No it’s not the hard work, it is about working differently.

because the steamdeck is actually just a small PC

That is very contrary to what’s the point of the article. Supporting the Steam deck also means supporting the controller and the small screen format. Things that can benefit users of Windows based handhelds too.

Wush!
Way to completely miss the message. Which include how user interfaces need to be usable on the small screen, and to make optimizations for lower end hardware and not just focus on mid range and high end.

The exception being that if you make a very high end complex game, it may be better to not support Steam Deck at all, because if it doesn’t play well, it shouldn’t pretend to work.

I don’t understand the purpose of that, or how that would be irony.
Looks just like a dumb comment to me.

What a moronic question to ask on a Steam Deck sub?
Of course I have, and Steam deck was priced very aggressively, but info on who makes this Steam Machine and how it will be priced is 100% absent here.
There was a pretty massive attempt at launching steam machines years before Steam Deck, and that it didn’t go well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer)

Following a two-year testing period, Steam Machines and its related hardware were released on November 10, 2015. By 2018, many Steam Machine models were no longer offered on the Steam store.

How does that raise the question whether I’m aware of Steam Deck???

There’s an LED strip, y’all!

Cool, I hope they keep that idea. 😀

Anyways it all depends on price/performance is good.
Previous attempts at 3rd party Steam Machines were not good in that regard.

OK I’ll have to look into that.