Steam is about to release a mobile PC for gaming. 
Steam Deck starts shipping December 2021 to the United States, Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. More regions coming in 2022.
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Do you think it will last longer than the Steam Controller or Steam OS?
This makes no senseā¦ hardcore PC gamers want to play from their chair with something they chucked shittons of money at, not move from their chair to play on something inferior, for money they could allocate to PC upgrades.
Switch and PC gamers are the complete opposite demographic.
Well, they are making it run SteamOS 3.0 (archlinux-based), so they are definitely invested in their tech last longer 
Using their words:
On Steam Deck, your games run on a different operating system than the one on your desktop PC. Itās a new version of SteamOS, built with Steam Deck in mind and optimized for a handheld gaming experience. It comes with Proton, a compatibility layer that makes it possible to run your games without any porting work needed from developers. For Deck, weāre vastly improving Protonās game compatibility and support for anti-cheat solutions by working directly with the vendors.
So yeah that will be interesting. Releasing in Steam is already one of the most reliable & controllable platforms to release and market your game, so this would be a plus for developers to support Steam. From the wording it seems there is little work from devs side, no porting work, but still testing to do.
I have a Steam Link and Steam Controller. Even though discontinued, they are still supported pretty well.
I am not a big fan of mobile gaming. But there are many who like it.
They are trying to add the Steam library to mobile gaming, which is dominated by Android games.
Nothing interesting for me. I already can play Steam games on my phone through Steam Link app (at home).
Mm, I have read this a thousand times:
(when) is this game coming to Switch?
All the indie games already release first on steam, and a very low % make it to the point of getting a publisher and porting it to the Switch.
While not endorsing the Steam Deck yet, Switch owners and āhardcore PC gamersā might not be the same demographic, but Switch owners want to play new games, and Steam is the platform where the most games get released every day, so this is just directly a switch competitor, not a competitor for a USD $3000 custom PC built.
But this means Steam needs to compete with their PR and Marketing with the Switch and Nintendoā¦
I mean itās not a itch.io console, but I hope it will help getting indie games at platforms where people might pay for their work.
That seems like a more reasonable take, but is someone with a switch also going to buy this, realistically?
To me switch users are really console users. Like theyāll hook a switch to a TV, or have another console on TV maybe. But not two handhelds. Or choose this over a switch.
I donāt see a market segment other than one for people without gaming PCs who only want to play PC games. But I donāt feel thatās really a thing on its own, if theyāre ācasualā enough to not care about investing in a PC, theyāll just get a console, which a ton of PC games get ported to anyway.
Besides the software platform, steam seems totally out of it with hardware and their own software to me, for some time.
In a way this idea reminds me of the steambox, which was supposed to be a budget pc but optimized for linux or something. I was interested in the idea myself, but it seemed to fall flat trying to find a sweet spot that didnāt actually exist.
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Hmmā¦no estimates on delivery.
This is just to reserve a spot for 220 TWD (will be deducted from price). I guess the order and fulfillment will be early next year. Steam said they will deliver all current global preorders by end of the year.
By the time Taiwan gets it, they will probably have released a pro version in the US.
Right on time for Christmas 
So I see theyāre openly available in Taiwan now. There was a sale but I missed it.
Did anyone buy one? Whatās your impression of it so far?
I have a gaming PC at home. Itās good enough.
I preordered from Komodo. Then when the shipping started I was quick to pay. Rightfully so as their stock quickly ran out and some people, who paid full price, had to wait quite some time to receive their order. Meanwhile the situation should be fine.
The device is great and getting better with more improvements from Valve for gaming on Linux.
I can play all my games on the move now. I have kids and it is hard to find time for casual gaming at home. So when I have some time while out, I use it instead of scrolling on my smartphone.
I play games like Death Stranding, Wreckfest, Superhot, Red Dead Redemption 2. I didnāt have the time and urge to setup all the great emulation possibilities yet.
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Yeah but mine is on its last legs. It has a heating issue now. If I run normal admin tasks itās fine but run anything even remotely demanding it drops to like 5 fps to try to save itself from the inferno it becomes. I used to be able to get away with undervolting but an update locked me out of the bios. I can roll back the update but everytime I reboot it automatically installs (and Iām unable to scrub it). I tried everything but yeahā¦ Also I have a 4 hour round trip commute. Playing on a laptop while sitting on the subway or bus is impossible. But on my switch itās perfect.
How long does the battery last? Iām not looking at pushing it too hard but hoping I can get at least 4 hours out if it?
I didnāt have it run out of juice yet. 
Mostly I have a convenient plug nearby, else I didnāt play more than two hours.
But you can read many reviews on that online. It heavily depends on the game and graphics settings. You can tweak it to run longer.
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Wow cool toy. I may want one, some day.