[Jotaku]

After a year of use, I think Steam Deck is absolutely amazing providing both pc and console gaming experiences at very reasonable price, and it provides tons of emaultors as well such as NES, Snes, Sega Saturn, PS1 to PS3, PS Vita, even Nintendo Switch games. That isn't all as you can install even Windows 11 on it and access to all the business tools so you can make money out of it plus all the Android games through the BlueStack emulator using a fancy Steam Deck native controller, beating all other mobile gaming users with haptic experiences.

Definitely it can threaten the whole current gaming markets by also offering AAA games on such a small handheld, in which Nintendo Switch can't do. It got hugely succeeded and now even released OLED version of it recently.

The only solution I see is that Sony really needs to contract "more exclusive games" preventing AAA titles to be released on PC, or to bring back the "OtherOS" feature from PS3 for turning PS5 into stronger PC than Steam Deck and then price down the PlayStation Portal handheld in order to compete with Steam Deck. Otherwise I personally see no hope in both regular pc gaming and console gaming I guess, and at the end Steam Deck would eventually end up destroying both of playstation and xbox. So the same goes for Xbox even.

[Laffey wanting Siren observer]

Why would they need to? ROG Ally beats the everloving hell out of the Steam deck, and it in turn gets s*1813! on by the Legion Go.

[Jotaku]

If you mean handheld ROG ally, Although ROG ally can surpass Steam Deck's spec, I think ROG ally failed already as it didn't sell much well comparing to Steam Deck.

Having trackpads like Steam Deck is quite important and a little bit useful for dealing with OS in the handheld, better than analog sticks when it comes to dealing with OS like typing, browsing, etc. And also I think it should be standard as PS5 controller also has trackpad on it.

It's also convenient if you ever deal with games with minimap as well, like mapping the entire minimap to whole trackpad, extremely useful in MOBA genre like Onmyoji Arena if played with a controller.

but please don't missundstand.. I still prefer powerful pc with i5 or i7 cpu with nvidia geforce gpu over Steam Deck (if budget isn't unlimited).
my recommendation of Steam Deck is for only those whose budget is limited.

[Laffey wanting Siren observer]

Legion go is already a thing, plus it has far superior power. Of course there is nothing wrong with that, If anything a budget PC buidl is actually quite difficult due to GPU gouging and in general inflation nowadays (250$ USD is actually 400$ USD these days)

[Jotaku]

I think Legion Go is just released so yeah we will see if it can outperforms Steam Deck.
Personally not too positive on its prospect as Legion Go is more expensive than Steam Deck, in which it goes kinds of opposed to how Lenovo is well known of.