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The People Who Put Emulators on Your Steam Deck Now Want to Sell You a Linux Console (itsfoss.com)
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[–] Datz@szmer.info 4 points 1 day ago

This is great, but a new dilemma for me. I've been waiting for Steam Machine because I really want the small size and easy moving between TV and desk, compared to normal PCs. (Performance could go either way, I'm plenty satisfied with HD but also do have a 4k TV to use)

But I'm not actually sure precisely HOW small I want my gaming box to be. It seems like this'd be just a bit too clunky for me compared to the cube, but if Valve time pushes SM into 2027 I might just cave in, it still seems more convenient than most desktops I saw.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I know it is just a headline, and it is a good one. But I still want to slip in here to say that RetroDECK was actually released for Steam Deck a few weeks before EmuDeck.

[–] network_switch@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish them success so that they can scale up and provide good customer service

[–] viov@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I hope to see a couple more competitors get built up too

Valve, Playnix, and a few more would do so well. Maybe Ayn can make in future with a new different team a few bigger handheld consoles/consoles alongside their small Odin 2/3, and Thor offerings

Them together doing would vastly improve gaming industry and make Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo move to non-locked down PC Handhelds overtime

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man its gotta be a tough time to launch a console that can be cost competitive.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I gotta say, business wise they are handling it well IMO, although who knows if it will work on yhe long run.

Due to high demand, Playnix Console will be sold in monthly batches and to offer you the best possible price, we adjust the cost of each batch based on the actual price of components (especially RAM) at the time of manufacturing. This means the price may vary from one batch to the next.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point selling PCs without ram & storage is starting to sound like a reasonable thing. Especially as they claim it's "upgradeable" as one of their major selling points and it uses standard DDR4 ram and NVME SSDs, so many people interested have spares from old builds collecting dust.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So far they've sold out the first three batches already, so either they're lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I think I'm kind of fucked. I Am forever lost in the depths of Linux. I just read the headline and thought to myself "Who the fuck pays for a Linux terminal and what does it have to do with emulators?"

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago

I could see donating to your favorite terminal emulator. cool-retro-term is, well, pretty cool.

[–] somenonewho@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... and what does it have to do with emulators? terminal emulator (wikipedia)

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

That was my Second thought too.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 18 points 2 days ago

Awesome, glad they're doing it.

The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?

For that price, more than a year from now, you'll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.

[–] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago

https://playnix.io/1-11-playnix-console.html

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org -4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.

Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.

I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they'd normally have halved the cost of a larger one.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 0 points 1 day ago

8GB dedicated, but shared increases that.

I do give props for not using Nvidia, that 3070 is the last time I put up with them.

[–] isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gtfo man, what tablet is this that is more powerful than everythinh with a 9060xt attached? But it is a bad time indeed and nevertheless I hope it succeeds

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'll disagree on the ssd part. I got a refurbished deck and have no issues with load times from the micro sd. But big yeah on the ram.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 day ago

I was looking for a 2TB 2230 and they have a few at around $200, then most are at or over $500. They're nuts right now.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get what you mean. When I played cyberpunk 2077 on my PC I noticed a huge performance benefit moving it from my spinning disk to my SSD. I think it's because it dynamically loads as you play. So driving a car fast down the road for example leads to a lot of distant objects loading very late.

But on my steam deck I play all kinds of other titles. Even play coop Elden ring and that runs fine but the load times definitely lack compared to my desktop 🤣.

So I think YMMV depending on the game. I've got a 512GB deck with a 1TB SD card, SD card works pretty all right.

[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 day ago

The biggest issues I've had with sd cards has been the exFAT file system, not the card itself, the ext4 or btrfs drives are soooo much faster and cleaner to use than "compatible" exFAT formatting.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

In my case for cyberpunk it was all on my desktop, SSD vs spinning disk. For my deck it was Elden ring and one other game which I can't remember. But typically most everything runs fine off the SD card.