Dammit Sony, you just had to improve upon it and then you went and fucked it up with the Vita :/

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    I can use my phone or tablet as a portable screen for my Xbox

    Can even use it as a portable screen for my PC

    Why would I want a steam deck vs having a bigger tablet screen and a controller I don’t have to stare at?

    Portability, but the steamdeck is as portable as my tablet if it can’t fit it into a pocket.

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      Have you tried it? It’s quite nice. It plays all my favorite retro games via emulation and most modern games I care about. I can dock it and use a controller and bigger screen. Oh, it also functions as a pretty solid desktop solution if I want.

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        Solide desktop solution without any printer drivers. Stop to feed steam, there are better solutions for retro gaming.

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      But still this scraps on that topic is a bulky ps4/5/xbox PORTABLE for you? Steamddck can stream onto bigger displays too or evem remote play things that are to high gpu intensive onto your main pc.

      A tablet cant play games ( except mobile games ) on its own.

      It has a nice case for transport and the controlls are the best on the market ( even upgradable / easy to repair ) i would love a “just the controller” part of the steamdeck.

      And if you need a tablet + controller + the console itself. THIS is NOT portable in any way or form as you just need a literal backpack full of periphials including power cord to power it 24/7.

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        I don’t need to bring my Xbox around. Simply open the xbox app and my Xbox screen is now on my tablet anywhere I’m at.

        My tablet can stream onto bigger displays or even stream my PC.

        You don’t need to carry around the console

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            Steam link is not cloud gaming. Steam link serves the game from your own PC, not a server in the cloud.

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              Yes i know but that is what i mean with steam link you stream your game to another pc / screen. Microsoft xbox is cloud gaming and is laggier