Valve reveals the gaming hours on Steam Deck during 2024 and they are staggering - Steam Deck has become one of the main gaming platforms and is starting to be treated as such
If you dont care about high settings at high resolutions in AAA games, then its absolutely the best gaming option out there.
I do say people should be willing to tinker with the software if they want to get some more obscure, abandoned or emulated titles working though, thats the only caveat.
They can't really keep them in stock, though. I was checking on them shortly before the sale started and the refurbished 64GB LCD models were all out. Now all the refurbished models are sold out.
It's just as well, though. Between the Switch 2 and the Deckard, I've got some other stuff I might want to waste money on this year.