(TRUTH) New year and reflection time for past 6 months
New year. Reflection time.
In the past half year (6 months) how much have you played with your Steamdeck?
You can compare it to your main PC/Mac or against your deck playtime of the first part of the year. Just comparison more or less. I want discussion going on.
I'm interested because I found myself to be a tiny bit deck fatigued and only in December have fun with Brotato. Otherwise I'm like 100h initial climax compared to 30h current one.
Bought the deck, upgraded to a 2tb SSD, upgraded the cooling, swapped the shell, added additional grips on the sticks, pads, triggers, rear buttons, did some overclocking and undervolting, spent many hours tweaking various setting and plugins, etc. I've played a couple of hours of Mario golf on yuzu, and haven't otherwise touched it for a single other game. I've had it for 8 months. And the $2k gaming laptop that I ended up with a couple of months ago really kind of put the nail in the coffin. I had big plans for the Deck when I bought it(and the many accessories, upgrades, and mods), and those plans just kinda.... didn't become a thing.
I've been thinking about pulling the SSD and putting the 512gb back in, and just selling. The only thing stopping me is that I have some ideas on possible major life changes for this time next year(think tiny and/or mobile living arrangements), where the form factor of the Deck would/should be beneficial. That was the original intended purpose of me buying it to begin with. But even there, the laptop is plenty small, and vastly more powerful. Just not sure I see a reason to have both, and if forced to choose one or the other, I mean...
I bought mine on Amazon. It's an Addlink. You should find it by searching (ad2TBS91M2P). It's currently $10 cheaper than when I bought mine. No idea if it's a good deal anymore, I haven't shopped for SSDs in a while, so I don't know current prices to compare.