Can't decide between PS5 or Steam Deck

[City17]

Most of the games on Steam that would be a good choice to play portably are also on the Switch, so the amount of (recent) exclusives you're missing out on that would benefit from the Steam Deck's form factor are rather small. The Steam Deck will technically have a much larger library available to it than the PS5 ever will, but many of those games are dated and you will notice they're dated, too.

I'd recommend you go through the PS4 released games and PS5 upcoming games and see how many games you'd like to play, then compare that to PC games you might have heard of and try and figure out whether they'd benefit from the portability or not. While the the Steam Deck can be played docked and thus perform as a "real" PC with KB+M the matter of the fact is you can get a much stronger regular PC or laptop for the same price.

Personally if I were in your shoes I'd buy a regular desktop PC first purely on the grounds that the Windows games library covers far more titles in the genres I care about than PS4 and PS5 do, and in my opinion that's really the only thing that matters: how many games you like can you get for the system you're buying.

Are you silly ? I restrain myself.
You can play Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is the very Last in the franchise, at Maximum settings at a stable frame rate, what horse shit do you eat when you say that on steam deck would be more dated games and maybe more ugly games, cause that you meant, which is more than BS.

I m in the same dilemma with him, having a PS4 Pro, but kinda wanting a silent system, cause this is very noisy. Steam Deck would be interesting. I m curious what GENIUS can build himself right f now a Complete (HA!) gaming rig with just 399 dollars. You are just trolling, at least do not spread this nonsense keep your bs for yourself, and laptops and esports gaming pc.

You do not have exclusives anymore on Playstation, every game on Playstation will come on PC.
So, if you do not have really good friends on PS, if you feel tired or lazy to plug your gaming system to a monitor (if you have a free monitor there in your house) I kinda want Steam Deck more, its a more open and futureproof experience, what if I move out or go somewhere, its more than hard to carry a big console and a big tv and all stuff with me, With Steam Deck you are Free to connect to a monitor IF you want. But its just a more free and comfortable option, offers you a larger horizon.

 

[godreborn]

Are you silly ? I restrain myself.
You can play Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is the very Last in the franchise, at Maximum settings at a stable frame rate, what horse shit do you eat when you say that on steam deck would be more dated games and maybe more ugly games, cause that you meant, which is more than BS.

I m in the same dilemma with him, having a PS4 Pro, but kinda wanting a silent system, cause this is very noisy. Steam Deck would be interesting. I m curious what GENIUS can build himself right f now a Complete (HA!) gaming rig with just 399 dollars. You are just trolling, at least do not spread this nonsense keep your bs for yourself, and laptops and esports gaming pc.

You do not have exclusives anymore on Playstation, every game on Playstation will come on PC.
So, if you do not have really good friends on PS, if you feel tired or lazy to plug your gaming system to a monitor (if you have a free monitor there in your house) I kinda want Steam Deck more, its a more open and futureproof experience, what if I move out or go somewhere, its more than hard to carry a big console and a big tv and all stuff with me, With Steam Deck you are Free to connect to a monitor IF you want. But its just a more free and comfortable option, offers you a larger horizon.

The ps5 is pretty quiet. I only ever really hear it when it's spinning a disc. You can install ps4 and ps5 games to the drive inside, then it will only spin the disc for a few moments to verify it, and I've encountered no load times so far.

 

[RAHelllord]

Are you silly ? I restrain myself.
You can play Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is the very Last in the franchise, at Maximum settings at a stable frame rate, what horse shit do you eat when you say that on steam deck would be more dated games and maybe more ugly games, cause that you meant, which is more than BS.

I m in the same dilemma with him, having a PS4 Pro, but kinda wanting a silent system, cause this is very noisy. Steam Deck would be interesting. I m curious what GENIUS can build himself right f now a Complete (HA!) gaming rig with just 399 dollars. You are just trolling, at least do not spread this nonsense keep your bs for yourself, and laptops and esports gaming pc.

You do not have exclusives anymore on Playstation, every game on Playstation will come on PC.
So, if you do not have really good friends on PS, if you feel tired or lazy to plug your gaming system to a monitor (if you have a free monitor there in your house) I kinda want Steam Deck more, its a more open and futureproof experience, what if I move out or go somewhere, its more than hard to carry a big console and a big tv and all stuff with me, With Steam Deck you are Free to connect to a monitor IF you want. But its just a more free and comfortable option, offers you a larger horizon.

You're lacking reading comprehension, and a lot of it. I was referring to older games, as the overwhelming part of the game library on PC is likely older than you are. Many of the greatest PC games are old, and look dated compared to modern titles which really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Also, I made that post back in August before people were able to benchmark the thing, do you expect me to go back and edit my posts a month after it was made because suddenly new information is available?

You would also do well to temper your expectations when connecting a monitor, a 1080p display has nearly double the pixels as the Steam Deck, that'll likely prevent plenty of triple A games from next year to run at 60fps.

As for building your own PC, a Ryzen 5 5600G offers similar performance at 720p, or even 800p if you'd be able to find a display like that. Currently about $260, doesn't need a discrete GPU for that either. Also if AMD does finally bring RDNA to their APUs next year expect the Steam Deck to be outperformed by a sub-300 APU.

I preordered a Steam Deck and not just the cheapest option, but it's not a magical device without limitations.

 

[Deleted member 514389]

Obv SD.
PS5 still struggles.

 

[hippy dave]

You do not have exclusives anymore on Playstation, every game on Playstation will come on PC.

Years later.

 

[Darkone108]

Feels like two different use cases - one would be more like the Switch and playing on the go.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

Amusing thing about most of the comments.... acting like PS5 and Steam don't play any of the same games. Majority of these comparisons being made are just flat out unintelligent.

 

[Nedyak12]

Erm... I don't see how they're even remotely similar. The way you game on them and the library are vastly different, and that's not saying anything of things like gaming community or accessories (PS5 has a vr unit, hasn't it? ).

But ey... Me personally, I'm getting a deck. I'm often away (commuting or bring bored with my parents - in - law) and when we're home girlfriend hogs the television.
But even without those factors : the deck is an actual pc,and my 'gaming pc' is approaching retirement (its eight to ten years old by now). I'll probably also get the dock for at my desk, just to play on a big screen and with keyboard and mouse.
The fact that it just plays everything I can get working on Linux (and proton apparently being even better than now) is also a huge plus.

Also... I don't want to disrespect Playstation fans, but I can't even name exclusives, let alone that I care about them.

I'm a ps player and fan but to be honest with you the deck is amazing and even the 64gb version is very upgradable and can become a 1.2tb version very very easy so ya the deck also there are soooooooo many more games on the deck than the ps that you can't even call the ps5 a valid choice I've said my peace god bless you all

 

[Nedyak12]

It's better

 

[Taleweaver]

I'm a ps player and fan but to be honest with you the deck is amazing and even the 64gb version is very upgradable and can become a 1.2tb version very very easy so ya the deck also there are soooooooo many more games on the deck than the ps that you can't even call the ps5 a valid choice I've said my peace god bless you all

Hmm...I'm not sure why you're quoting me from many months ago, but ey...since I've got my deck as well, I might as well reply to myself to update my stance a bit.

Erm... I don't see how they're even remotely similar. The way you game on them and the library are vastly different, and that's not saying anything of things like gaming community or accessories (PS5 has a vr unit, hasn't it? ).

But ey... Me personally, I'm getting a deck. I'm often away (commuting or bring bored with my parents - in - law) and when we're home girlfriend hogs the television.
But even without those factors : the deck is an actual pc,and my 'gaming pc' is approaching retirement (its eight to ten years old by now). I'll probably also get the dock for at my desk, just to play on a big screen and with keyboard and mouse.
The fact that it just plays everything I can get working on Linux (and proton apparently being even better than now) is also a huge plus.

Also... I don't want to disrespect Playstation fans, but I can't even name exclusives, let alone that I care about them.

Hi former self. This is me having actually played on the steam deck.

Simply put: it's at least as good as you hoped back then, and arguably much better.

Truth be told: I'm using it almost exclusively as a console/gaming device. It's not incorrect to call it a PC at all (because it is that), but the way it's set up, I don't see myself installing libreoffice on it any time soon.

But as a gaming device, it has blown everything previous straight out of the water. Gaming on mobile? Equally good or better (provided the game has a PC port). Gaming on my aging gaming PC? Much better (okay: the verdict's not out yet on FPS or RTS games). Consoles? Also better (the thing can properly emulate a fucking switch).

As @Nedyak12 (and others) mention, you can just use a decent SD card to upgrade it. Or replace the hard drive if you're more adventurous. But even so: 64 is small but doable depending on your game taste.

Meanwhile...I still can't name any games I'd even try out for free on PS5. I heard that sony is porting more games to PC now or in the near future, but because of my previous sentence, that's only a "meh" news for me (I only mention it for those still pondering).

Availability of the device is the only flaw against it. Expect to wait at least a whole season at this point (probably more?).

 

[Dr_Faustus]

I mean I am sure this is already pointed out or not, but given that Sony is intent on opening its exclusives to the PC and Steam as its means of release, it would be without question that the Deck has the overall edge here anymore. The PS5 at this point just seems almost redundant in their long term goals of being a publisher of games on PC and their hardware.