I just saw the ASUS handheld in the wild. It was running some FPS game pretty well.
Can anyone help me compare the two - Steam Deck OLED vs comparable ASUS version? Which do you prefer? Pros/cons?
I’m almost decided to buy the Deck OLED, but seeing that in the wild made me pause. It looks nice.
Rog ally: lots of headache and poor battery life but complete freedom to play any game and to get cheaper deals (GamePass, EGS).
Steam Deck OLED: Best handheld screen with great battery, but best for majority but not all steam games.
fwiw it is possible to get games from all the other stores. the only restriction is it has to be runnable on linux, which really isn’t that big of a deal anymore with the current state of proton. it is a bit more work than games from steam tho
Thanks for that clarification. I think it is still not possible to run Xbox GamePass, correct?
You can load windows on the steamdeck, nothing is stopping you. I actually have a Bootable microsd with windows to play gamepass games. That being said, the drivers for windows are a bit messy and setting it up is kinda a pain.
You can stream Xbox Cloud games in Edge on the Steamdeck. Works about as well as it does anywhere else.
I actually can’t, it isn’t in my country. In fact even Steam Deck isn’t sold here, have to import it. But Rog ally is available, with discounts and warranty.
@lustyargonian @wrekone your name suggests it’s Armenia?
Jokes aside, Xbox Cloud isn’t available in my country either, but there are workarounds built into Greenlight. Latency is not that bad here in Turkiye.
Does proton extend to other stores?
Proton is just fancy Wine. You’re running the games from those other stores in a Wine prefix, and you can definitely choose Proton as your Wine version.
Frontends like Heroic or Lutris make that super easy.
Yeah its an open source project with the configs based on the game not steam it’s self. Steam just supports its in their launcher.