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Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The confirmed pricing is:

Steam Deck 64 GB - Certified Refurbished: $319 / £279

Steam Deck 256 GB - Certified Refurbished: $419 / £369

Steam Deck 512 GB - Certified Refurbished: $519 / £459

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who owns both and a PC as well, yes. Playing my steam library in bed is incredible. Also, if you have a larger library, it can be cheaper to just buy a Deck than re-buying everything on a different platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cool, thanks for the advice.

So, you can basically play any PC game on the Steam Deck? And the performance depends on the game?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I haven’t found anything personally that I want to play that I can’t play as I play a lot of indie games and singleplayer games. Proton is pretty incredible. YMMV though. If you play games that heavily rely on mouse and keyboard and twitch reflexes, or any game that has strict anti-cheat/DRM, you might have a suboptimal experience or not be able to play it at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll be able to play any game that can be run on Proton (Valve's Linux compatibility layer). Technically, you can install windows on the deck and then run anything on that, but that's not supported out of the box.

You can look at a list here for what Steam labels as "Deck Verified" https://www.steamdeck.com/en/verified

Additionally, you can look on protondb which is similar to the above, but takes input from users and may have additional notes on compatibility: https://www.protondb.com/explore?selectedFilters=whitelisted

Performance and battery life will depend on the game, but there's a ton of videos and benchmarks if there's a particular game you're curious about.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also, don't forget emulation! It's an amazing retro gaming device.