I used to have a ginormous gaming collection, every console I ever wanted, every game and some rare ones at that. (Earthbound, Persona 3 portable, etc.) I got nauseated at the collection, eventually for personal reasons, and decided to sell the entire thing, I quit my job at a game store at the time and quit gaming altogether. I felt like a complete failure in a way. But eventually, my friend got me into the deck, I never even realized that this was the dream system I always wanted as a kid. The system that can do anything for the most part and is a hybrid. This is all I have now that I consistently use whenever I can game these days and I am so much more happier whenever I get to play now than I was when I had everything I ever wanted at the time.

Yes. About 40 games completed this year vs just a couple in recent years.

Yeh.

I’m playing death stranding.

I have literally no idea what I’m doing, how to do it, or what’s going on.

I love it.

Started playing more indies, recently fell in love with cult of the lamb. If we consider that indie

I would game sooo much more if this thing has first party windows support.

I phased out consoles long ago and moved into PCs but I hadn’t played a game in honestly over 2.5 years on anything but my phone I did get an app I liked to kill time. I just ordered a Deck and subsequently setup my downloads for various emulators and wow got a SD to fill up, and knocked out some of the steam sale with like 9 games so I’m ready to let the love flow for this thing. So excited to get it on Monday/Tuesday when it arrives.

It’s the other way round. Now I am spending more time tweaking software, looking for deals on hardware upgrades, adjusting game settings and so on. For me, gamepass got me to play so many games that I had in my backlog.

Was on the same boat, was considering and having doubts getting it but eventually I said fk it let’s give it a shot.

It was a good decision, I am back into gaming, enjoying myself to the fullest.

It’s so convenient you can literally snatch and turn the deck on while you’re laying on a couch under a blanket while still being near your gf that it sheds a totally different light on gaming.

No regrets. :)

I’ve played more indie/lower budget games cuz of the deck. Great for portable mode. On my PC I tend to play higher budget games.

I was a Switch player for years, love handheld gaming. I like to have a movie or something on the tv in the background instead. After 2 years of religiously playing Animal Crossing New Horizons I sort of just ran out of things to do. No game really captured me. When Hogwarts Legacy was coming out I was super hyped for it, but just didn’t want to play it on Switch so I bought a Steam Deck just for the game. I really enjoyed the game, but more than that I finally was excited about gaming again. The Deck really opened me up to a ton of games I couldn’t play handheld before. Always seem to have something to play these days.

Playing Shadow Tactics Aiko’s Choice. Also just finished Gordian Quest.

I’m in a similar position and bought the SD OLED hoping for the same thing.

I stopped gaming for awhile due to lack of time, but now that I have more free time I only play phone games and watch anime. Just have very little desire to play.

Today my deck came in though and I installed Black Mesa to test it out before going to bed. I ended up playing for two hours! It’s still too early to tell, but really happy to continue playing through and see what this thing can do

I am one of the many people that has been hit with the fatigue of working a full time a job in which prior to that I would game probably 8 - 10 hours and I considered that a light day. Handhelds have brought me back as I literally just need the laziest and quickest way to pick up a game. Within a year I have two switches two decks and an ROG Ally. Send help.

Maybe. My issues is I’m super aware of repetitive game mechanics or bad storylines. Once I feel the game has that I lose interest very quickly. Also, in general I find games too long these days.

That said I played through FF7 Remake on the deck, and some of its repetitive parts I did while on the toilet thanks to the deck. So that’s one game that I finished which I would have otherwise dropped. The pick up for 15min nature of the deck is why I got through it. There’s just no way I’d sit down for 1-2hrs on my pc to play it.

It’s worth a try I would say. Gaming is fun, and maybe having a handheld you can game in in bed vs in the couch will be a better experience for you.