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.
I wish them success so that they can scale up and provide good customer service
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
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?”
… and what does it have to do with emulators? terminal emulator (wikipedia)
That was my Second thought too.
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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.
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.
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
What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Might also have something to do with the size of files that need to be loaded on a less powerful device. Just conjecturing.