This absolutely must be a skin for the fucking thing. If they want to be baller they can include a handle that sticks on too.

Gamers Nexus reported cost will be in line with budget PCs and not competing with console pricing

My guess would be that around $800 sounds roughly right... if you try to approximate a small form factor pc with... roughly those specs?

You'd kinda end up around there, but... the architecture is so nonstandard, its hard to say.

You gotta think of it as an SFF PC not a console.

Because its closer to an SFF PC than it is to a console.

Right like, this thing is also a PC, its a laptop or w/e if you plug a mouse and keyboard into it.

I run desktop mode on my Deck all the time, use it as a laptop/tablet of sorts.

As far as tiers go, GN has said there are plans for a 512 GB and 2TB variant, so, there's at least two tiers.... I would not expect like, more or less GDDR5/6 RAM variants though, the whole thing is built too much around the exact power draw and thermal load.

Agree it has be price competitive with consoles. Though I wonder if making a docked Deck be on equal footing with the Machine would have been a better use of R&D. Maybe simply improving having the dock house an eGPU and bumping the Deck specs.

With those specs there's no way it's going to beat console prices. The CPU alone is ~$200 retail.

I have a PSVR2 and I don't consider the capability of VR to be its failure. I have to assume it's just that much harder and more expensive to develop for VR. Like the FPS genre is hugely successful, and that's such a natural fit for VR.

... and this also just is a linux computer.

Just go into desktop mode, plug in a mouse and keyboard, your TV is your monitor.

So, that means it can be a light duty office work type PC, webbrowsing PC, home media center, etc.

Just maybe plug an external hardrive into it, or get some SD cards with a TB of storage, for music and movies.

Oh and of course, it can emulate basically everything that doesn't already exist as a PC game, via something like EmuDeck or RetroDeck.

Don't forget the steep tariffs!

I thought the link would lead me to the Rimworld page.

Just want to add an hour in VR is a LOT longer than 1 hour of flat screen gaming. If you haven't used VR then they aren't as comparable as you think.

You're usually on your feet, holding your arms up high, waving them around ,likely squatting - a lot and you've got a screen blaring into your eyes with constant high intensity stimulation.

Most people won't do 1 hour sessions on the regular, forget a 3-4 hour session without being put down to charge for while you take a break.