I completely forgot about the reservation and only got it in 4 hours later. Estimated is December 2026.

I did it a few times, then got tired of doing it after every update. My hope was always Valve adding it to the system themselves.

So no support for Xbox one controller dongle (non Bluetooth controller). At this point, I guess they’ll never add it, even though steam link hardware had it…
Its an old controller now, but my philosophy is still to use the hardware you have instead of buying new ones. Ah well.

If they get this working well, next deck is gonna be ARM for sure.

The physical medium is a license as well. But that’s semantics. We can all agree if you own physical, it cant be (realistically) taken away. You can still own physical. You can still take that power back (unless the game requires online). When I got a PS5, I was planing on finally ending my attachment to physical discs… but I just couldn’t do it. To this day, I still buy PS5 discs, I haven’t spent anything on PSN, but had PS+ for maybe two years and Im well aware those PS+ games were transactional. I cant do that anymore on PC so if steam dies, so does my library. At least my physical discs will be OK. Now on to my next fear… disc rot. Will I actually be able to boot up the Halo 3 DVD when im 80 and play it?

Look, I agree with you but let’s not cherry pick the Xbox numbers just because we don’t like it. Series S is cheaper than that. With Xbox you also bring your 360(some, digital), xbo library with you. Subscription is optional and emulator support is available with dev mode - Microsoft didn’t lock it out and it’s a very viable emulator machine.

Imo Deck is still better value but if you have your history on Xbox, a series s isn’t a that far off if you are on a budget - gamepass or not.

It’s hard to compare them anyway. One is a console and one a portable PC. Really different use cases and markets.