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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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[dh3lix-pooch]

Definetly not a early adopter but love to see how this is going and evolving. Also very interested to see how Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo react to this succes story in the future

 

[Ryab]

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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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I don't own one, but I do have to admit that Valve has handled this extremely well. Honestly the only mistake I think they made was they underestimated the demand.

 

[HideoKojima]

Definetly not a early adopter but love to see how this is going and evolving. Also very interested to see how Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo react to this succes story in the future

Success story?

 

[Scarlet]

Ended up passing mine to my partner after switching to the AYANEO 2. Still a stellar device though, especially at its price point. Didn't think handheld PC gaming would be so affordable so quickly.

 

[Blavla]

I own a few and now on 10% discount I bought another one
One of the beste devices ever

 

[AngryCinnabon]

I'm glad that the steam deck is doing well! It took the good things about the steam machines and steam controllers and made it work! Happy birthday you little beast!

 

[dh3lix-pooch]

Success story?

Any other pov? Let me know. Would love and learn what u think.

 

[ShadowOne333]

Success story?

For a newcomer to the hardware console/handheld market, and also with its price point and sales done so far, it is a success.
You have to take into consideration that for the best part of 2022, the Steam Deck was on early access and those that wanted one had to wait until their submission got accepted to get one. With the Steam Deck entering full retail on a handful of countries this year, we can only expect it to get better and better in terms of sales and features going forward.

 

[Ryab]

For a newcomer to the hardware console/handheld market, and also with its price point and sales done so far, it is a success.
You have to take into consideration that for the best part of 2022, the Steam Deck was on early access and those that wanted one had to wait until their submission got accepted to get one. With the Steam Deck entering full retail on a handful of countries this year, we can only expect it to get better and better in terms of sales and features going forward.

Also the advancements with Proton have been insane over these past 2 years. Hell 10 years ago game compatibility on Linux was 10% at most. Now it's around 70%. Most of the games that are still not supported are games with extremely aggressive anti-cheat.

 

[pustal]

Jailbreak when?

 

[Ryab]

Jailbreak when?

I mean what is there to gain? The system already gives you sudo rights from the start.

 

[guisadop]

please come to brazil :\

 

[Bladexdsl]

lets see nintendo offer something like that them bastards never drop the price on fucking anything

 

[ShadowOne333]

Also the advancements with Proton have been insane over these past 2 years. Hell 10 years ago game compatibility on Linux was 10% at most. Now it's around 70%. Most of the games that are still not supported are games with extremely aggressive anti-cheat.

Proton has been an absolute godsend for gaming on Linux, and I even dare say for running Windows app on Linux in general, a massive improvement over Wine alone since it still has its flukes here and there often.

Adding to that Proton-GE, Protontricks and the availability of both Bottles and Lutris on SteamOS, and compatibility rises up quite substantially for Windows apps and other non-Steam games.

The games running anti-cheat bs need to get their annoying crap sorted out for SteamOS/Linux in general, it's not the users fault their anti-crap is not working properly on other devices.

 

[GenNaz]

Jailbreak when?

It's already effectively an open Linux machine, there's nothing to jailbreak.

 

[pustal]

I mean what is there to gain? The system already gives you sudo rights from the start.

It's already effectively an open Linux machine, there's nothing to jailbreak.

 

[Ryab]

Proton has been an absolute godsend for gaming on Linux, and I even dare say for running Windows app on Linux in general, a massive improvement over Wine alone since it still has its flukes here and there often.

Adding to that Proton-GE, Protontricks and the availability of both Bottles and Lutris on SteamOS, and compatibility rises up quite substantially for Windows apps and other non-Steam games.

The games running anti-cheat bs need to get their annoying crap sorted out for SteamOS/Linux in general, it's not the users fault their anti-crap is not working properly on other devices.

Oh there have been some games who purposefully blocked steamdeck support after their anti-cheat added support.

 

[LightBeam]

Oh there have been some games who purposefully blocked steamdeck support after their anti-cheat added support.

What ? What games ? What's the point of doing that lmao

 

[tech3475]

It would be interesting to see these things sold and promoted in high street retailers (not just Game or Gamestop).

Whilst I would be concerned as a retail employee who regularly deals with dips***s, if it does manage to take off this could potentially make Linux a more viable platform.

lets see nintendo offer something like that them bastards never drop the price on fucking anything

I tend to see Nintendo preferring bundles over discounts e.g. the current 'Mar10 Day' one, not including any retailer specific ones I occasionally see.