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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (9 children)

isn't the steam deck much closer to a console than a PC?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Now we're in philosophical territory with questions like, "What is a console?" It runs PC games, but you can navigate it with a controller. It has most console features but is malleable enough to have most PC features.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

sure, it's a spectrum. but to me the biggest defining feature of a console is being a self-contained wad of hardware, unable to be upgraded or repaired piece by piece.

[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I upgraded my Steamdeck joysticks to a 3rd party with hall effect sensors, the ssd to one with double the capacity, and the fan to one that is silent. There's people that have upgraded even more things, to the point of using a pcie flat cable to connect a full pcie GPU card.

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