As Dwarvenhobble pointed out already, Windows does have support for touchscreens, but you're probably still right that turning a Steam Deck into a portable Windows pc is a level of tinkering beyond what most people interested in a handheld console would be willing to. Possibly many pc gamers too, for that matter.
One of consoles biggest strength is convenience and the deck seems to lack this if you really want to get everything out of it
Realistically you won't have to get everything out of it to have a good experience though, since it'll have compatibility with a lot of games out of the box, it'll just offer more to the people willing to put the effort in.
I'd never even heard of this fabulously expensive alternative until this video.
www.ayaneo.com
That's cool and almost gets me excited until I remember I have literally no use case for it.
Yeah, thats the annoying thing, I really want one and I did get an early preorder but... I don't travel much and I have a powerful desktop so its more of a neat thing that I would have to find a use for, then something I have a need for.
It's a PC, you can download games from the Epic store to play on it as well.
Not really this is Valve's latest bizarre move in what used to be called in tech "The war for the living room".
Not really, I mean Valve is trying to get into the portable market, but there are actually lots of competitors there, none of them have really made much of a splash though aside from Nintendo. We had the stadia thing, we had nvidias handheld thing, we have other switch like pc things. The thing that really sets the steam deck apart is cost and Valve making their own os for it. Most of the devices that are close to the steam deck run windows and are priced close to a laptop, the steam deck is priced like a console where Valve might not be losing money on each unit sold, but the margins have to suck and they hope to makeup for it with game sales, which they will.
www.tomshardware.com
I get that. You can get anything on it.
