They barely did Steam Link (the little physical streaming box from like 2015) and ended production quickly and the remaining units were heavily discounted, and they still send updates for it.

It's one of many reasons I like Steam and have moved more towards Steam gaming and away from Playstation.

How is the index? I’ve been thinking about getting one but I feel like there’s a new version right around the corner.

I think she means it will be unpopular, unknown, or not relevant. I am a gamer with a Steam Deck and I had no idea what the Index was or that it even existed until just now when you mentioned it here.

So fuck paying for the official deck, but … unfuck? paying for a 3rd party one? I don’t get it

Me hooking up my PC to the TV. 🤮

Me using Steam Deck to play on my TV. 🤩

Man, moonlight/sunshine was a gamechanger for my PC, I can play on my TV then on my phone then on my desktop, it's awesome!

The biggest thing for me is being able to put games to sleep and pick them up later. Being able to instantly stop playing a game, and then instantly start playing back at that same spot later has really freed me up to play in a lot of small sessions.

I've majorly cut down on how much time I spend on my phone, and replaced it with bite sized chunks of playing real games.

I have this problem... I ended up getting one anyway and do kind of regret it. It's a great machine and I've enjoyed having it for the occasional flight or train ride, but when I'm at home I'd rather just be hooked up to my desktop or TV. If I was still commuting an hour to the office everyday I'd probably get a lot more use out of it

I'm home constantly. I have a nice gaming PC with a comfy chair AND a nice big screen TV.

I got the original asap and then upgraded to OLED asap. Both were absolutely worth it. I almost play on it more than anything. I even stream the more graphic heavy games from desktop to Steam Deck, and stream PS5 or PS Plus Streaming games to my Steam Deck.

Handheld gaming is just nicer for me. More comfortable. More personal. I can see everything better. Everything looks more crisp on it.

I have no real use case for one and am basically never mobile yet I use it like crazy.

I used to think I didn't have a use case for one either but you know how sitting at your desk takes slightly more than zero effort? Well, that tiny amount of effort made it so whenever I actually sat my ass down, I would end up only playing "heavy" games like Skyrim while ignoring stuff like Bastion, Cuphead, Hollow Night, the LEGO Games, Pacman World, etc. Like, I'm not gonna drag my ass to my office to play Thimbleweed Park. Having a handheld got rid of that mental block and I've finally finished several games I otherwise wouldn't have, like pretty much anything that needs to be emulated. I even started buying games specifically because I wanted to play them on it.

You're not the only one. I bought a Steam deck because why not. I didn't have a use case.

But every month for a year, I continued to play more and more on Steam deck over PC.

It's reaching a point where if i had to choose between upgrading my graphic card or buying the next iteration of a Steam Deck, I'm going for that next Steam Deck.

I have a nice desktop, but I still play the deck. Sitting in a chair for a while gets painful at times, especially when you work from home ON a computer. Lol.

Here we have desktops set up next to each other but since we work remotely we don't want to spent our time on the office all day, so we play things on the couch/living room and the steam decks are used almost all the time. You can basically run the game on your desktop and play it remotely on the SD, on hand-held mode or docked plugged on the TV.

It is also the perfect companion for travel. We had a 5 hours flight in November which passed very quickly playing Balatro, lol.

I think they mean how they stopped selling Steam Link devices. They still support the software side of streaming, they just don't sell dedicated hardware for it anymore.