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(Image credit: Future / Katie Watkins)
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As regular readers of T3 will know,I’ve got historywith Steam Deck. Which is why I was finally very interested to read T3’s ownSteam Deck review, which was published just a few weeks ago.
The reason? I’d already given up and mentally checked out of owning a Steam Deck months ago.
So when, just this week, an email dropped into my mailbox informing me that my Steam Deck is now available to finally buy, it didn’t even feel very climatic at all. I just shrugged and thought once more of what could of been.
The email that dropped out of the blue this week from Valve informing me my Steam Deck was now available to buy.(Image credit: Future)
The email that dropped out of the blue this week from Valve informing me my Steam Deck was now available to buy.
The email that dropped out of the blue this week from Valve informing me my Steam Deck was now available to buy.
(Image credit: Future)
I think the truth is that I was all fired up to be an early Steam Deck adopter, but when that didn’t happen and I was left out in the cold, not knowing when my Steam Deck would even turn up, I naturally started to re-evaluate where my time and money was going to be placed.
I’d previously said, for example, that I’d also got my eye onPSVR 2and while my excitement for Steam Deck slowly dwindled, and especially so since it launched back in February 2022, my excitement forSony’s next-gen VR headset has increased significantly, culminating recently in our first real look at the headsetin the real world.
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I’ve still got my £565 that I’d saved for Steam Deck, but now it’s going to fund a PSVR 2 purchase instead.(Image credit: Future)
I’ve still got my £565 that I’d saved for Steam Deck, but now it’s going to fund a PSVR 2 purchase instead.
I’ve still got my £565 that I’d saved for Steam Deck, but now it’s going to fund a PSVR 2 purchase instead.
(Image credit: Future)
This switch in priorities has also come at a time when the cost of living crisis has pressed in on my finances like millions of other people in the UK and beyond, so while I’ve still got my £565 ready to go that I’d saved for Steam Deck, I’m now looking to the future and seeing that as my PSVR 2 money, and likely with extra games and accessories thrown in, too.
Sony has confirmed, too,that over 1.5 millionPSVR 2 headsets are going to be made available to gamers at launch, which to me sounds enthusing – it sounds like I’ll be able to get a PSVR 2 along with my friends and get stuck in toa range of next-gen VR experiencesat launch. This is something I never got chance to do with the Steam Deck.
So, as sad as it is, I won’t be buying my Steam Deck and it will be instead offered to another PC gamer. And, you know what, I really hope it delivers them plenty of joy as from what I’ve read Steam Deck hasa lotto offer.
It’s just that, for me, it was never meant to be.
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