I just found out the PSP Go was a thing and I really like the idea of having the screen slide up to reveal the controls. I think this would be a great way to make a more compact version of the Steamdeck. I don’t know about the low form factor joysticks though. I’ve never used anything like those before and I’m not sure how they’d feel to use. Maybe it would just be something I’d have to get used to. Regardless, I’d love to hear what other people think about this idea.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Technology isn’t there yet.

    There’s certainly handhelds in the PSP go form factor already, but they use much smaller OSes than the steamdeck uses, and still have to make sacrifices usually.

    Like you’d probably just get a quick-boot to a retroarch variant for emulation and thats the entirety of the OS you’d get.

    • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      What do you mean smaller Os? There is a PSP mod that puts a Raspberry Pi inside it. Raspberry Pi runs a Debian fork. Sure it’s not fast enough for Steam games but it’s still a Linux desktop environment.

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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        10 months ago

        Technically the mini retroarch is also on linux, but that’s not what people think of when they think “I want to run it like I do the steamdeck”

        Like you said, not enough for steam games. technicalities don’t leave people feeling happy.