The Steam Deck LCD is 20% off, and I'm still not buying one because it's crap for RTS

Valve slashes the 256GB mentation terms for Black Friday

The archetypal 256GB LCD mentation of Valve's Steam Deck is 20% disconnected till 1st December, knocking it down to astir $319.20 oregon £279.20 successful the UK. It's each portion of this year's Blackening of Friday, whereby whimpering terms tags are shoved partway into sausage machines for the payment of the archetypal Xmas shoppers.

"That's a chunk of cheddar," whistled our caller editorial manager Julian, a prime of words I take to instrumentality literally, mostly due to the fact that he's conscionable ruined my sausage instrumentality analogy. According to the UK's Office of National Statistics, cheddar was 873p a kilogram arsenic of January 2025, the past recorded figure. Assuming that mean holds true, the Steam Deck is presently worthy 32 kilograms of classical farmhouse cheese. That is a chunk of cheddar. Good work, Julian! This is wherefore they handed you the large brag trousers.

I'm vegan, truthful I'm wholly unswayed by each these dairy-based overtures, but adjacent if I were 1 of you lactose junkies, I inactive wouldn't get a Steam Deck astatine 20% off. James loaned maine 1 of his a twelvemonth oregon truthful ago, and I was rather impressed by its quality to fto maine play Balatro lying down, but my PC gaming is half-and-half MK and controller. I already ain a Switch, which has possibly a 3rd of the champion PC action-platformers connected it already, and I've recovered that Steam Deck sucks for quintessentially desktop genres similar real-time strategy.

It's imaginable that this is simply a misapprehension calved of lingering, amorous hatred for Mech Engineer's demo, and that I'm missing retired connected a aureate property of tightly optimised controller-native harvester raids and flanking actions. I look guardant to your outraged comments successful defence of portable Starcraft.

Yes, I cognize I tin get a wireless rodent and keyboard, but if I'm going to circular the happening retired with accessories, wherefore not conscionable splurge connected a basal gaming laptop with a amended surface that tin beryllium utilized for a clump of different things? Yes, I cognize you tin output to your TV, but I've banished my TV to a wardrobe due to the fact that the powerfulness "button" broke, and I've mislaid the remote. Hello, TV manufacturers! Please tin you enactment due fucking buttons connected TVs again. A single, brittle integrative tab hidden wrong the framework is not capable for my needs.

In conclusion, I anticipation you'll articulation maine successful firmly rejecting Valve's cut-price Steam Deck. Think of each the cheddar you'll beryllium capable to bargain with the currency you've saved, you stinky whey-fancier. Alternatively, you could enactment your food wealth towards the acquisition of a Steam Deck OLED - I perceive they're decent - oregon 1 of Valve's galore forthcoming caller gizmos.

If you bash importune connected buying an archetypal Steam Deck, I urge speechmaking James's Steam Deck academy hub (as advertised successful the header), which encompasses how-to guides, accessory roundups, and game-specific show and settings overviews. Perhaps if capable of you work that piece, James volition consciousness magnaminous and lend maine 1 of his again, truthful that I tin decorativeness being aggravated and frustrated astatine Mech Engineer.