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Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

I’m very confused… Before the steamdeck Alienware made steam boxes. We’re they good, meh. Would they sell like hot cakes today? Absolutely.

But calling a handheld PC a console is just weird. Nothing stops anyone from building a compact PC and just plugging it in to a tv… You could also just run steam os on it if you wanted to.

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Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The Steamdeck is as much of a PC as a PlayStation. As in yes they’re both PCs but specifically built for gaming. If you want to use them for other stuff you can but it’s not what most people buy them for. One runs BSD and the other Linux but the OS doesn’t determine what is and isn’t a PC. Your phone is a PC too. It’s an umbrella term.

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atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
To me, what makes a console a console is the console experience. As in, you should be able to navigate everything with a gamepad.

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- SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes. You can do that on PC. You can have steam run at startup andaunch straight into that one other mode it has. Or install steam os or bazzite etc. You don’t need a mouse and keyboard for a PC
  
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  - atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yes, you can do all that. Hence why I refer to Steam Deck as a consolized PC.
    
    That said, the console experience on Windows 11 is subpar. Bazzite and SteamOS are far superior in this regard.
    
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- slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  So a pc
  
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  - atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No, not all PCs offer a consoles experience.
    
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    slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah sorry, you also have to have the brain capacity to install steam
    
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