I’ve been considering purchasing a steam deck. My pc is in my office, which limits interaction with the rest of the family if I want to play anything. I’ve tried playing mobile games, but just can’t get use to the controls. Think it’s worth getting one?
I’m going to offer an alternative.
Steam lets you streamplay games from your computer to another computer.
Your phone is a computer.
You don’t like the built in controls for a phone.
You can pair xbox and ps5 controllers to androids phones with little to no effort. Not sure about other phone OS’s, and quite frankly, not my bag baby.
So now you have a controller hooked up to your phone, and it’s channeling games from your computer over wifi.
Never had a cause to try it personally, but I might just do that and come back to confirm it works.
Might save you a couple bucks for your kids college fund.
I appreciate it. I have an iPhone, but I’ll have to give this a try!
I agree that streaming might be worth considering, but instead of Steam Play, which is quite meh, try Moonlight. That’s the client, and the open source server is called Sunshine. The performance and latency is much better. If you want to take it to the next level, you can add Tailscale to the mix for seamless streaming outside your local network/WiFi. As long as the underlying connection is fast enough, it tends to work really well.