No, absolutely not. I don’t give a shit about downvotes by fanboys here, please don’t listen to anybody saying it’s worth it if you’re Docked only.
The Steam Deck has a performance profile of a base PS4 when running games at 800p. At higher resolutions, PS4 actually performs a little better much of the time. The reason the Deck is more expensive is because you’re getting all that power on a mobile APU.
For the price of even the cheapest Steam Deck, you could build a PC that will run games better, especially since you’re already wanting to play docked so you already have a screen, mouse, and keyboard. Not to mention that the Docked experience of a Deck is janky. It often messes up the resolution, returns a black screen, or just doesn’t work for a variety of other reasons.
I just bought an OLED Deck after owning an LCD Deck since it came out. The Steam Deck is my favorite handheld of all time and an incredible system. But please, just build a new, stronger PC for that money if you’re only going to play Docked. Or buy a pre-built. Even GPUs from 2015 will outperform this thing, and you can get those for like $100 or less.
No, absolutely not. I don’t give a shit about downvotes by fanboys here, please don’t listen to anybody saying it’s worth it if you’re Docked only.
The Steam Deck has a performance profile of a base PS4 when running games at 800p. At higher resolutions, PS4 actually performs a little better much of the time. The reason the Deck is more expensive is because you’re getting all that power on a mobile APU.
For the price of even the cheapest Steam Deck, you could build a PC that will run games better, especially since you’re already wanting to play docked so you already have a screen, mouse, and keyboard. Not to mention that the Docked experience of a Deck is janky. It often messes up the resolution, returns a black screen, or just doesn’t work for a variety of other reasons.
I just bought an OLED Deck after owning an LCD Deck since it came out. The Steam Deck is my favorite handheld of all time and an incredible system. But please, just build a new, stronger PC for that money if you’re only going to play Docked. Or buy a pre-built. Even GPUs from 2015 will outperform this thing, and you can get those for like $100 or less.