SCAN UK now selling a WD 1TB SSD compatible with Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/scan-uk-now-selling-a-wd-1tb-ssd-compatible-with-steam-deck/ #SteamDeck
@gamingonlinux I really like the fact that the Steam Deck is sort of becoming the standard entry-level gaming PC.
Anything that isn't screaming "GOUGE ME DADDY" at a GPU vendor is a relief.
@barcode @gamingonlinux Definitely! I enjoy enabling more people to access gaming, which is why I appreciate the availability of entry-level options such as the Steam Deck, Xbox Series S, and cloud gaming.
However, I'm not fond of the notion prevalent in PC gaming culture that you must spend a considerable amount of money to belong to that community.
@barcode @gamingonlinux absolutely agree. We all know lots of people are happily playing with GTX 1060s, yet "the online gaming community" as you call them tell us that PC gaming is all about RTX 4090s.
@gpowerf @gamingonlinux
I feel the same way. Though I've for a long time thought of "the online gaming community" to be just most vocal and easily influenced minority of the player base (most gullible useful idiots) that can be leveraged by marketing interests. They're unrepresentative of wider groups they'd supposedly represent.
In this case compare the "belief" in big-money-to-pc-game with pricing commonly used hardware in Steam hardware survey.
Doesn't match up, but drives upgrade sales.