With the popularity of handheld gaming on the rise, gamers have historically seen very few options with portable gaming, with only the Nintendo Switch availa...
Depends on your game, settings, screen brightness, etc. It’s highly tunable with stuff like FPS limiters and even custom TDP limit settings built into the UI.
Just running a Gameboy Color emulator, for instance, you might get 6+ hours. Running Baldur’s Gate 3 at reasonably optimized settings from an online guide, you’d get about 1.5-2 hours
You can literally make a steam deck last 30 mins at minimum. Lol. I would say most users are getting 2 to 3 hours with reasonable settings. So many variables at play. Your best bet is to go in with realistic expectations.
Cheaper doesn’t mean better. There’s also more expensive, which again doesn’t mean better. There are no other amd64 handhelds with a working sleep function that I know of.
what’s the battery life of these beasts?
Depends on your game, settings, screen brightness, etc. It’s highly tunable with stuff like FPS limiters and even custom TDP limit settings built into the UI. Just running a Gameboy Color emulator, for instance, you might get 6+ hours. Running Baldur’s Gate 3 at reasonably optimized settings from an online guide, you’d get about 1.5-2 hours
That’s almost impossible to answer because it all depends on how you’re using it, what games you’re playing, screen brightness, etc.
But in general I would say it’s pretty good.
You can literally make a steam deck last 30 mins at minimum. Lol. I would say most users are getting 2 to 3 hours with reasonable settings. So many variables at play. Your best bet is to go in with realistic expectations.
Thanks all, of course, my comment was about 3D games. You don’t buy a Steamdeck to play Mario Bros SNES or SuperMeatboy.
Speak for yourself, friend. Lots and lots of people bought it because it’s so great for playing emulators.
There’s lot of handheld more cheaper for such thing.
Cheaper doesn’t mean better. There’s also more expensive, which again doesn’t mean better. There are no other amd64 handhelds with a working sleep function that I know of.
Somewhere between 2 and 8 hours.