Penny Arcade - Comic - Double Reverse Irony
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Double Reverse Irony
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Any Game that doesn't support Proton basically. Valve has indicated they are reaching out to aid in development to get them functional on the linux platform, but who knows. That said it is also entirely possible to just install windows on the device, it is afterall a pc.
I think its a reasonable position, you should buy a thing based on what its capable today( at least what they have demonstrated it is capable of), not what they promise to deliver tomorrow.
Neither? I have about zero interest in online shooty things, and Valve doesn't seem to be making that many Decks, with initial preorders around the hundreds of thousands. This sort of scale is fine for a PC that already has a healthy game ecosystem, but its not remotely on the scale of successful consoles, so the amount of interest is rather limited and hardcore compared to the Switch it is put up against so often.
Apparently all of them? And this come down to trying to run windows games on linux. There is work being done with some vendors but no promises at this point.
And that's because steam games will be running under the Windows emulator/setup Proton on Linux. And that means that game companies will spend effort to make sure their games run on Linux that way.
And that means that Microsoft will never be able to pull a Windows 11 on gamers again and make them buy new hardware or a new license just because Microsoft feels like it.
And it also means that if you have to work on Linux you can also game on it.
Besides, you can install Windows on the Deck anyway, so that would nullify all those associated problems.
In any case, I'm not betting everything on Valve's success here, but it'll be interesting to see where it goes. Worst-case scenario is that it's a regular PC, just at a price cheaper than a normal gaming PC.
You can't buy it today though. It will be available around Christmas.
Arguably, since it's a PC, it already does everything you know a PC can do. The only difference is that it's portable.
It wasn't the actual point I was making, but yeah, I will still stand behind it in this context, Pre-orders are BS, I don't really feel that Gabe/Valve should be Kickstarting shit with what they got in the bank.
That said, I was really just saying, if the games you want to play on this thing don't run proton for their Anti-Cheat, don't give them money until they solve the problem, a hamburger tomorrow and all that...
They aren't taking the full sack o money now. It's $5 to reserve one, then you decide if you want to pay later.
Cyberdecks are something Shadowrun assimilated from William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, so while the name for Valve's device might be an homage, it is unlikely to be to that particular IP.
I was thinking it was likely to be something from cyberpunk as a whole but I wasn't sure.