I have a ~$1200 gaming laptop (when I bought it a couple years ago) and a steam deck. The steam deck is an amazing little machine, and I quite like it, especially at its price point. But it's not as powerful as the laptop.

The built-in Deck configuration for Cyberpunk does give me a pretty stable 30 which I would consider very playable! But I wasn't able to achieved a locked 60 even at 400p on the lowest possible settings.

I think a 30-40 target is perfectly fine for portable play but the post above was setting up potential buyers with unrealistic expectations. You won't be able to run games like Spider-Man, Cyberpunk, Elden Ring etc. at a stable 60 even if you drop the settings as low as they can possibly go.

Straya?

Yeah, but now NZ has no COVID-related restrictions anymore, so it's not really different from anywhere else - yet he's in no hurry to leave.

Shmeesh wtf. Absolutely shameless ripoff

I'm in Switzerland, the island of no steamdeck in the sea of steamdecks. If I lived 10 mins down the road (20 by tram) I'd be able to buy one, but Gabe hates cheese and chocolate I guess.

he's moved back to Seattle but pop off

Happy Cake Day!

Absolutely, I would say that Cyberpunk is not "playable" at native res. You can get to 30 sometimes but it's bad enough that it's not gonna be a good experience. By comparison Horizon Zero Dawn can get dips from 40fps but you'll still enjoy yourself.

Would be more steps and a bit more complicated on steam os. If you install windows it would be no different than any windows PC. Though steam os is overall a better experience but dualbooting is an option.

You can get them on MightyApe in NZ can't you? My workmate's arrived today.

If you do I'd happily get one of those from you.

O, right, i remember those when i had psn. I didnt actually use it when I first played it.

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It's literally only available in 4 small asian countries. Article makes it sound like it's all of Asia.

Australia counts right?

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...right Anakin?

TIL Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are the entirety of Asia.

Based on AMDs APUs, I’d guess 18-24 months, at least. Unless the next upgrade doesn’t include performance.

steam is very popular in singapore though

It’s almost like he moved there to get away from Covid like other billionaires

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Screams at $1599.00 NZD price tag.

you can play Sekiro offline, the only difference is that you won't get bloodstains (I forget what they're called in Sekiro) which are nice but not remotely necessary to play the game.

I've been tempted to pick one of these up, but if I'm being honest, the one game I've played this whole year that would have made sense to play on a portable device was Pentiment. I'm just too married to 4K60+ on a 55 inch display. I really admire Valve for doing everything right with this thing, though.

Is supply still constrained or something?

I played Spider-Man and Uncharted 4 full through on Steam Deck docked to a 42" 4k. It was great.