I’ve always wanted to build a little PC, but I don’t have space or time to play games other than on a handheld on the sofa. I’ve been playing Xbox Game Pass on my Retroid Pocket 3 Plus and it’s been really good, but I’m wondering if a gaming pc streamed locally would be cheaper in the long run. It’d live under the TV and very rarely get used with a controller on the telly, almost always streamed to a little handheld.

Alternative is Steam Deck, which looks good, but tbh, it seems quite unweildly. Though I know it’s possibly the right route.

Any thoughts?

    • ElkendersOP
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      1 year ago

      Hm, yeah, the OS admin side of things is a good point. Game pass has just been so seamless I figured a similar experience would be achievable. I’d likely turn it on as and when as I only play sporadically. I’d just like to move to a PC game library but can only really play handheld but find the current handheld gen a bit unweildly so guess found this as a potential solution. Plus I’ve always wanted to build a PC. I think a steam deck is likely a better route still.

        • ElkendersOP
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          1 year ago

          Yeah it’s my understanding I’ll be sticking with steam os if I do go steam deck. I do have a small steam lib but games on gog and other places too I’d have liked to have easy access too.