I use my PS5 only for exclusives since the Steam Deck arrived

I have a thing where I only buy games that are more than a year old. I also listen to game podcasts from a year ago. I’m kind of living a year in the past in gaming but it is better than ever. Games are on sale for 30%-70% of the launch price, all DLC included (sometimes) and the broken parts are fixed.

I bought it because I no longer had a gaming PC but had 300+ games in my steam library basically stranded. Now I can play all those games again (and more!)

Am tackling my backlog too BUT if u come from keyboard and mouse, expect to flounder around and hit nothing at first when using the deck controller or any other controller. Deck is great but getting used to non mkb is tough.

I haven’t bought a new release game in 20 years or more. With dlc coming out and having to buy a season pass to keep up with them, it is not worth it. I wait for a ‘game of the year’ edition that comes with all dlc for a bargain price.

Sure man however you gotta justify the purchase

Tbh this has been my situation for a good few years now, i spent a lot of money in 2020 on a PS5 and a PC with a 3090 and my most played game since was a mod for Xcom ufo defense, a game from 1994.

Frankly even if they were delivered optimised and bug free gaming just isn’t the same anymore, its a mess of monetisation and agendas where writers and developers are afraid to or just don’t want to take risks etc.

I bought the Deck because it’s a good value, a hybrid portable-console and I love to see Linux gaming move forward.

I mean that’s why I swapped to PC in general since the PS3 era.

Games on console are way overpriced plus u gotta pay for online. If you add all costs up during a console generation you end up paying more money then if u bought a PC. Unless u only play a couple games a year.

All great games.

Patient Gamers are Best Gamers.

AAA games are not more expensive than ever btw

I bought two AAA games this year, and regretted them both. Mortal Kombat 1 released buggy, with frequent crashes, poor optimization, a scummy dlc model where you don’t get everything with the season pass, and (what I believed) was a slightly disappointing story.

Black Ops Cold war was the other one. Hey wait, isn’t that game like 3 years old? Yep. It still has crashes MOST times I boot up the game, with some really strange workarounds that are a pain to fix. I lost my campaign progress TWICE due to these crashes, and it’s hilarious how much the seasonal content and dlc is shoved in your face after years of being outdated and irrelevant. Its truly unacceptable how issues like this were never fixed, despite the game being rated ‘very positive’ on steam.

For clarity, I was playing these on my big bad gaming desktop PC, not the steam deck.

No because steam deck doesn’t fix that problem.

It’s funny how devs keep yelling “game development becomes more and more expensive”, but i rarely see those expanses reflect on game quality in a good way.

More like the opposite!