I think those two look neat, ¯\(ツ)/¯

Okay, some of these look genuinely cool.

What’s your prices guess? The Index was 1049€ (incl. VAT) here in Germany and that was long before inflation and AI. My guess is it will be 1200€+.

Idiots.

Its not even worth the 1000+$ Valve is asking for it. Why are people paying even more?

I"m not sure where you are getting this from, but there’s absolutely no demand, and I mean none at all, for another Steam Link hardware.
You can run some form of Steam Link on basically anything you can hook up to a TV (or the TV itself).

Yeah, pretty fucking sure it’s going to be 1200€+ here in the EU. That’s a hard sell for people with a quest or the index.

Ah yes, nothing better than getting a heat stroke playing Beat Saber when it is 40°C in the apartment. /s

Instead of a battery + USB power supply, you have a “normal” power supply. The controller parts of the Deck are basically in the Steam Controller, plus the dock/dongle. The Machine has a huge chunk of metal on the chips to dissipate the additional heat, which also adds to the cost. All of this still needs to fit in an incredibly small form factor and has better, more expensive components plus more RAM in total. Add ~20% VAT because that’s how prices are calculated in the EU.
I say the cheapest we might see for a variant with included contoller is 900€ and that’s probably if we’re lucky.

Well, here goes the hope for a sub-1000€ Steam machine.

We know all of this already (even more than what’s listed actually) for like 6 months or so.

Yeah, previous scalper accounts can just be reactivated. Also, what qualifies as purchase? Is adding a F2P game or a demo a purchase in this context?

I mean, those are the most valuable customers to Valve, so … yes? Idk. You could go by account age instead if that makes it fairer somehow.

As someone who spent a ton of money on Steam games over the years, I wish they’d sort by account value. This would also automatically deprioritize scalper bots, since those probable have a account value close to zero.

No chance in the current market.

Try switching between Xinput and Dinput mode. You can get the extra buttons to work with one of them usually (AFAIK).

8BitDo regularly releases firmware updates for their controllers (and dongles!). You might want to try the missing functionality after an update.

GN simply isn’t a peripherals review channel with no particular expertise in this field.

Sweet! Unfortunately, my Anbernic RG 351P won’t have enough power for any of the games on Steam. Still really cool.

Edit:

Currently, this is available on “Qualcomm-based” handhelds

Oh well, I don’t own any of those.

With the new Backpack Battles update I’ve been checking out the new content on the Deck.