I didn’t think Valve even expected this level of success, given previous flops. The company is a tad disorganized though, I don’t see them taking full advantage of it or offering a real sequel or alternative sizes anytime soon. (My wife requires a lite version, like Switch sized, cause admittedly the deck is a bit of a behemoth and she admittedly has tiny Asian girl hands.)
Yes! If they release a SteamDeck Pocket, that’s all anyone in my family is getting for Christmas from me.
Admittedly, at these prices, only one or two people will be getting gifts, but everyone else can gather around and watch them play, I guess.
Haha, usually a smaller screen means cheaper prices… but obviously they’d need to setup the manufacturing and supply chains and whatnot. Having cracked mine open, I know it really wouldn’t be hard with parts they already use (it’s already very thin and efficient).
They are just really stubborn about the track pads… and given Valves lack of hierarchical structure, it’s hard for someone on their team to nix a feature as anyone involved and veto that decision.
But man, I’d buy so many as gifts— well, one or two, but good enough!
I love the track pads. They make navigating desktop mode actually bearable. With some qol tweaks to the mapping, I find them downright enjoyable to use.
Without them the deck wouldn’t feel nearly as standalone-capable. Hardly any application in games that don’t need a cursor though, I’ll give you that for sure.
