• arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    2 months ago

    Eventually, Sony will stop supporting the PS5 and it’ll be a brick. If Valve ever stops supporting the Steamdeck, it’ll keep running.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        14·
        2 months ago

        You can play DOS games just fine right now, so yes it’s a good bet. And a far better bet than the PS6 being backwards compatible.

        • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          The crazy thing for me is that I have a little handheld specific for dos games. The problem I run into every time is having to setup computer keyboard bindings for each game to play them using the built-in controller. I really want retroarch or another dos emulator to do profiles for different games and I haven’t seen that yet.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Unless they change CPU architectures.

        And even then it’s no guarantee. Plenty of games needed support from the likes of GoG to run. Hell, I couldn’t even play Ex Machina because I had a HDR monitor and the game detected that and completely broke. Disabling HDR in Windows did nothing.

        • TheYang@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          Unless they change CPU architectures.

          well. there’s already winlator (basically box86 / wine-wrapper for android).
          Not as polished and far as Proton is, but the bones are there.

          A CPU architecture change wouldn’t be a deathblow.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 months ago

          Ex Machina the movie or the 1984 “game”? That’s before Mario was even a thing.

                • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  That doesn’t make any sense. I can play multiple games from 2017 with no problem at all. I play games from 2012 and up just fine too. That’s something the devs messed up for that specific game, or it’s a problem with your PC.

    • XTL@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      2 months ago

      Device, maybe. What happens to the games bought from a DRM monopoly?

      • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        21·
        2 months ago

        While valve has a lot of deserved goodwill, that’s always the problem - they’re well-behaved, but set up in a way in which the customer has no leverage if they where to change their approach tommorow.

        Good thing drm-free games run just as well on the steam deck.

    • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2 months ago

      These devices have different use cases. Steam Deck also is digital only. If a publisher decides to kill a game, they can control whether you can or can’t play the game. PS5 Pro is expensive, but so are video cards nowadays. PS5 Pro is just following a trend set years before, including the shift from physical games and cost. The only way to stop anti-consumer trends is to stop buying expensive hardware (PS5 Pro included). Also, give some love to physical copies of games.

      • Tech With Jake@lemm.ee
        12·
        2 months ago

        Saying the Steam Deck is digital only is like saying a tower computer is digital only. That’s purely false. If you can put it on a tower computer, you can put it on the Steam Deck.

        All the Steam Deck, like many modern tower computers, needs for physical copies is a USB media reader.

        • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 months ago

          If we can argue that Sony will stop supporting the PS5 in the future, who’s to say in the future, (without the good leadership), Steam won’t restrict what can be put on the Steam Deck? We have a lot of arguments for wanting a Steam Deck and an alternative OS to boot for gaming, but saying PS5 will be bricked in the future is not a strong one.

          • Tech With Jake@lemm.ee
            15·
            2 months ago

            Because the Steam Deck is just computer hardware. I can already install whatever OS I want to and Steam won’t know that it’s a Steam Deck anymore.

          • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
            8·
            2 months ago
            • Take Steam Deck
            • Wipe OS and install Bazzite/Nobara
            • Install Heroic Launcher / Non Steam Launcher
            • Install games from them

            Nuclear apocalypse happens and internet is down

            • Get ISOs of games in a USB drive
            • Plug it into the deck and install
    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      After over 3 decades as a gamer and tech user this is maybe the single most consistent important benefit for any open platform were you can just install Linux.

      The rest is nice but this one means that 10 or 20 years from now your hardware might have been repurposed for something else and still be useful and in use whilst a closed platform will just be more junk in a junkyard or sitting in a box of those things you’ve kept just because you don’t like to throw expensive stuff away but will in practice never use again.

    • Mango@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Also I’m that scenario, you know Valve only gave it up for something dramatically better.