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The Steam Deck got its first year anniversary on February 25th, and while that date has passed already, Steam didn't forget the momentous occasion. Steam released a special post on March 16th which goes into specific details about the anniversary.

To celebrate and commemorate this, Steam is currently offering a 10% discount on Steam Deck purchases for the duration of the Spring Sale event, which will last until March 23rd, and includes all the current shipping locations in which the Steam Deck is available. Those countries without Deck shipping sadly are not included. As for the Spring Sale event, Steam created a showcase of the top 100 games played for the Deck, and several of which currently have a discount offer on them.

Not only that, but Steam has also brought another feature into the Steam Deck, in the form of a built in feature to modify the startup movie which plays when powering on the Steam Deck, and to go alongside it, the Steam team created 20 customized startup movies for the device, specially created by them for people to select from as part of the Steam Deck's anniversary.

Have you been one of those lucky people to get a Steam Deck during its first year? How has the Steam Deck changed the way you play your games?

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[chrisrlink]

Why need more than one or two? Not criticising, genuinely curious.

gift to a loved one maybe?

 

[1B51004]

wow 10% off a (at minimum) $400 system so useful

ik obvsiously they're not gonna half it or anything, it just came out
but like
people get hyped over a 10% discount??

 

[DerpDingus]

I love my Steam Deck.

The BAD-
The OS has some severe jank
Way too Big
Battery life is obvious shart
Only Comes in Black?!

The GOOD-
Insane game library
runs most games well
feels higher quality despite all plastic

 

[LightBeam]

i could buy 3 switch lite for same price and not need to tweak settings

Good, I guess ? You won't play the same games tho, and clearly not at the same quality

 

[ShadowOne333]

wow 10% off a (at minimum) $400 system so useful

ik obvsiously they're not gonna half it or anything, it just came out
but like
people get hyped over a 10% discount??

That 10% discount is already around 40 dollars, which is quite a substantial amount. Almost that of what the Switch Lite cut-off from the normal Switch.

 

[ZeroFX]

based

 

[RichardTheKing]

Can you PLEASE release this thing in Australia, Valve?
Thanks in advance; I wanna spend money, dammit.

 

[Xzi]

The Portal turret startup movie is nearly flawless. Only thing that beats it is having the entirety of Shrek as your startup movie.

 

[SMNFXCN]

i remember someone saying that the steam deck is the successor of the ps vita. could not agree more.

 

[Xzi]

i remember someone saying that the steam deck is the successor of the ps vita. could not agree more.

I view it more as a Sega Nomad for the 3D era of gaming, which is something that I never dreamed could become real. I appreciate that Nintendo was willing to demonstrate a demand for such a product, but in retrospect Switch was just the appetizer. No more waiting for scaled-down ports or having to buy games twice.

 

[Marc_LFD]

gift to a loved one maybe?

Or have at another apartment/house, but that's more likely.

I love my Steam Deck.

The BAD-
The OS has some severe jank
Way too Big
Battery life is obvious shart
Only Comes in Black?!

The GOOD-
Insane game library
runs most games well
feels higher quality despite all plastic

If there was a white version and it looked like Nintendo's Wii/Wii U in white, you'd not want it.

 

[Xzi]

If there was a white version and it looked like Nintendo's Wii/Wii U in white, you'd not want it.

IDK, mine looks pretty good with a mostly-white Portal skin. Makes the black bits pop more and matches my black and white PC/PS5. You can also get transparent backplates in various colors now.

 

[shadow1w2]

Happy Anniversary Stem Deck!
I ordered mine the first day and the one year wait was tough.
Got mine last year in June.
Little jealous of the discount but there's no way I could have waited an additional year for that.
Been really happy with the device, no limits, I play what I want and if it doesn't work, go into desktop mode and fix it up like any PC.
Really love the thing.

Glad it's hitting retail stores somewhere and the official boot videos seem to pair nice with the unofficial ones just fine.
Once ya have one in your hands and some time to make it your own it really starts to shine it's best.

Surprised they still haven't shown anything on a Steam Controller 2 though, the deck controls have been so nice for me it's been hard to go back to a regular controller.

Though streaming a game to the Deck works just fine too, which I do sometimes just to get the controls.
It really has changed a lot for the way I play PC games and being able to share them with friends and family.

 

[urbanman2004]

I'm definitely getting the next iteration of the Steam Deck that Valve will release.

 

[chrisrlink]

have a question the ram is soldered in right would be even better to mod the ram to 32GB i already like that you can change the video mem to 4gb max but that leaves you with 11gb ram

 

[gudenau]

I have one on the way now.

 

[Xzi]

have a question the ram is soldered in right would be even better to mod the ram to 32GB i already like that you can change the video mem to 4gb max but that leaves you with 11gb ram

Unless you're intent on really doing some crazy multitasking, there's no point in having that much RAM. Deck's RAM is also really high quality quad-channel DDR5, which is part of what lets it punch above its weight class in terms of gaming performance.

 

[SDA]

Happy 1st, Steam Deck

 

[Blavla]

Why need more than one or two? Not criticising, genuinely curious.

4 and no idea , to sell them in Third Countries

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i could buy 3 switch lite for same price and not need to tweak settings

The tweaking is the main point. You can do on it whatever you want. Play PS2 games in 5x the native resolution, so much possibilities . I have all the Switches x2 and they are collecting dust

 

[EvilJagaGenius]

My sister has one of these and I've been lusting over it. I love handhelds, and while my gaming desktop is a loyal friend, it's hard to help wanting the same level of power and openness in handheld form. I hope, now that the Steam Deck has opened it up to the masses, the concept never dies.