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Valve's price hike reportedly wipes out 82% of Steam Deck sales as it goes into "near-total collapse"
Things aren't looking great for handhelds.
The Asus ROG Ally X has everything the Steam Deck doesn't, except the one thing that actually matters
Software is so much more important than might think when it comes to a handheld
Valve says it will continue offering Steam Deck LCD replacement batteries
iFixit says the stock issue was real, but that it has been resolved.
CachyOS beats SteamOS on my ROG Ally X, and Windows 11 isn't even in the running anymore
Power-constrained handhelds deserve a tuned, minimal operating system to get out of your game's way
Your handheld's Performance Mode is actually tanking your 1% low frame rates on battery
Your 1% low frame rates are suffering.
The Decky plugin that doubled my frame rate is the only handheld upgrade I cared about this year
This Decky plugin made me stop thinking about upgrading my handheld.
I'd buy a retro handheld now if I were you, because the RAM crisis is quietly making them worse
If you're on the fence about a specific device, pull the trigger as soon as you can
I paired an old Android phone with a Proxmox VM, and it's my favorite gaming handheld now
And it's surprisingly good at running modern PC titles
I turned my old PlayStation Vita into a distraction-free Plex machine, and it's my favorite device now
Nobody expected Plex on a PlayStation Vita, but this open-source client just solved a problem I didn't know I had
After a year of PC gaming handhelds, MSI proved everyone else is playing catch-up
Intel's Arc G3 Extreme chipset is a banger, but the price tag will sting
Your handheld's 75 FPS isn't real, and that's why aiming feels broken
Upscaling is actually making your handheld feel worse.
The Legion Go 2 needs more than a Z2 Extreme to make me drop the Steam Deck
There's a reason why Steam Deck is leading the handheld race, and it was never about hardware
You can now buy replacement joysticks and screens directly from Anbernic instead of ditching your handheld
The parts are affordable, too.
Valve's Steam Deck price hike might be warning sign that the Steam Machine is DOA
What happens when a mass-market product doesn't have mass-market prices?
Gaming handhelds can't compete in ranked matches, and the joystick is the reason why
Stick to casual gaming.
Windows handhelds are doomed because they require the same maintenance as a workstation
This handheld is fundamentally flawed.
If a decade-old Nintendo Switch can run PC games, your next handheld doesn't need to be x86
The Nintendo Switch can run Steam, and that means a lot for the future of Arm gaming.
I hacked my PlayStation Vita into a retro gaming console and Sony has no idea what it gave up
Abandoned by Sony, revived by community.