Steam Deck

You paid any tax? What’s the final price?

AddressPal ship things via boat from the UK last time I checked, battery restrictions only apply to airfreight and even then that seems to be all for show as plenty of electronics come through where I work without any UN shipping labels on them...

€7.50 for a warehouse return Amazon Basics USB C to HDMI cable and an old DualShock 4 controller I had laying around, can't charge while playing but can't complain!

Older games like DiRT2 run 1080p 60fps but will need to mess around with upscaling for the likes of GTA rather than lowering settings to suit the higher resolution. The upscaling for emulation looks well on a big screen.

Yeah it's a bit drastic, was just looking at the screen replacement instructions for reference

Probably not the hardest screen to swap out, but also not exactly simple

Tempting but I don't actually have €500 to be spending on a deck

Tbh I probably couldn't afford the base model 😭

Maybe it'll be back in stock by the time I've saved for one

Looks like the store is now taking reservations for the 64GB and 512GB versions, 256GB is still out of stock

However it keeps saying the reservation servers are busy, so you can't actually reserve one at the moment

I guess they must have some serious backlog of orders to work through

It's probably just the plug so. If you go the ordering through Germany route, the plug will be an EU one. Not the end of the world but worth noting.

If you do buy the official dock on your Irish account you get a 3 pin plug with it. So that might help.

I set up remote play with the ps5 this week through Chiaki, and I’m stunned about how well it works. Been great sitting on the couch playing Bloodborne while herself uses the TV. Makes the decision to buy newer games for the PS5 easier too! Don’t know what it works like on a different network but it doesn’t get used outside all that much anyway.

It really is an unbelievable bit of kit for the price.

Heroic launcher has a new update and it now supports side loading a browser as a game. Which is handy for stuff like Xbox cloud.

You just select add game, then browser from the drop down. Type in the URL and it will add the images for you.

I know it's not the most difficult of things to add but now it's a bit quicker so might be handy.

I must say, the constant updates the deck gets is great. It's really brilliant.

Yeah the general flexibility of the platform is pretty amazing, hard to see any other console being so open to playing other brands games on it

Anyone know roughly how long it takes GLS to deliver from the Netherlands?

Mine got dispatched on the 2nd and has left the Netherlands 3 times according to the tracking number 😕

I know it takes time, and I might as well ask how long the proverbial string is

But I'm very eager to get going with some steam decking 😂