Gaming handhelds are decades old.

Yeah, but how many played your entire PC game library?

This is like saying that the iPhone wasn't a big deal because we already had palm pilots and blackberries.

	▲	camgunz 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Steam decks aren't the iPhone of gaming handhelds. They are another in a long line of them, i.e. another Palm Pilot.
	▲	brnt 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		With which Id agree.

Yeah the category has existed for quite a while but Steam Deck was an exceptional product and had a lot of innovations.

You cant expect new product categories to be created every year, they take decades to manufacture.

Like do you look at the latest laptop from today and be like "pfft laptops were a thing since the 80s whatever". Thats asinine

	▲	camgunz 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Like do you look at the latest laptop from today and be like "pfft laptops were a thing since the 80s whatever". Thats asinine No, but I don't say something like "I don't know about that, MBP M3 launched in 22 and its pretty cool" in response to "I can't think of a major technology product invented in the last, say 5 years, that actually served to fulfill a need that I had." This stuff is iterative, which is fine--even good! But the valuations and hype are "we invented a new thing", and that's grift bullshit.