As we reach the second half of 2023, what are some of the supposed releases, or news you’re looking forward to?

  • alehel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    ROG Ally. Finally a good device which lets me play any of my indie games on my commute. This is important to me as I’m the dad of a 7 week old girl, and my commute is the only time I have for gaming now.

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      1 year ago

      Genuine question, why not Steam Deck? I enjoy playing indie games (Into the Breach, One Step from Eden, Into the Void, etc) on my Steam Deck on bus.

      • alehel@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        It’s not available in Norway, and probably won’t be any time soon. I could have it sent to a collection point in Sweden and pick it up there, but then I’d have a lot of trouble dealing with a warrenty claim if something doesn’t work.

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          1 year ago

          Norway is an odd country to miss out. I kinda just assumed they’d released it in every stable European country.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry to hear that. It makes me thankful that even in a small Asian market like Hong Kong I can get a steam deck through official channel.

          • alehel@beehaw.org
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            1 year ago

            I’d definitely have gone with the SteamDeck had it been officially sold here. A more console like experience and the trackpads would have been great for RTS games. Bought a steam controller from a colleague, so at least I can use that for RTS when connecting the ally to a TV.

            • asexualchangeling@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              I cannot overstate how much I love the trackpads on the steam deck, I never had a steam controller (I didn’t like the idea of trading other inputs for touchpads) but I’m really happy with them on the Deck

              It sucks that they still have so many places they don’t ship yet though

    • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I preordered one. I love my Steam Deck and am interested to see how much better it performs, but I plan on installing Linux (some form of SteamOS) because I really hate Windows. SteamOS is an amazing interface for a handheld and with the Ally running AMD, it should run Linux very well. ETA PRIME did a video on Linux on the Ally and it looks very promising.