I love my steam deck, but I’m also glad to see more competition in the handheld gaming pc market.
About time. Very weird that you had to jump through hoops to get them before.
The thing runs Windows so it’s not a Steam Deck competitor… It’s a has-been at launch.
Windows is absolute garbage for a handheld gaming device. When are these manufacturers going to learn and just ship the things with Linux? Many Chinese devices (made for running emulators) ship with some customized Linux so why aren’t more mainstream manufacturers doing it? Seems like a no-brainer to make a better device and save money on licensing costs.
The answer to your question is in your comment. The reason is that those devices are designed to run emulators (usually nothing past gamecube/ps2 era). They run Android because Android has support for emulating software, but the chips used in those devices aren’t designed to run current Gen games nor are they usually designed to run most Linux distros.
Although someone could try to do it, but if I had to guess it’s more work to do it right (Valve made a custom OS for the steamdeck).
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I don’t know how you can say that it’s not a competitor.
It’s because they’re hyperfixated on Linux, just like the majority of the Lemmy userbase.
In reality any x86-based handheld is potential competition for the Steam Deck.
Looks like the N-Gage grew up 🥹
I will say I do like the metallic silver. Very 2000s.
