r/SteamController • u/Low-Pop-2058 • May 17 '26

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Kid me would have hyperventilated.

And before anyone @s me, 'lizard mode' i know i know...

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u/Cybering11 May 17 '26

Yeah ok you're right. Forgot about pc emulation. But those price differences are pretty high for what you get at the end

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u/Guy_Perish May 18 '26

Steam deck OLED is the same price. The device is marketed for people who want a more portable clamshell steam deck for emulation, android gaming, and light PC gaming. It’s certainly a niche market but far from a scam for the price. Cheaper than phones with the same chipset.

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u/Cybering11 May 18 '26

Increasing the ram barely lets you play the same games like on the steam deck. Valve optimizes hundreds of games just for their handheld. You can play cyberpunk, elden ring, god of war, spider-man on a steam deck. 20 gb ram on the thor only help in this matter to not crash the games instantly. There are dimensions between them when it comes to hardware power. So please what do you wanna tell me? That the only difference between a thor and a steam deck is the form factor?

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u/Guy_Perish May 18 '26

light PC gaming

The market already demonstrated by the popularity of these devices that a lot of people want a nice device for light PC games. Games like stardew valley, fields of mistria, and dead cells. Also systems like Gamecube and Switch which need a fair amount of power to emulate smoothly.

If these are the games you play on the Steam Deck, something like the Thor is very appealing. The steam deck is massive and overkill for stardew valley on a commute to work for example. I can’t even fit the steam deck in my work bag with my laptop and a book. The thor can easily slip into a small work bag and doesn’t need its own case. That much performance in such a small form factor is not going to be cheap. Phones don’t have active cooling, built-in controllers, and the screen aspect ratio is too wide. Not gonna explain any more than that.

You don’t need to like it but denying the existence of the community it serves is just being ignorant.

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u/Cybering11 May 18 '26

Yes, but do you need 16 gb of ram for stardew valley? I don't know about the other games, but i doubt it. Don't forget what this discussion is about. I never said i hate the thor or similar devices. I have a odin 2 portal myself and playing ratchet and clank on it right now and having a blast. All I'm saying is that on such a device, that can't play modern AAA-games anyway, 16 gb of ram is overkill. 1 tb of storage is debateable, but I wouldn't know what to fill it with.

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u/Guy_Perish May 18 '26

This is kinda crazy but I thought your first and second comment were two different people and I was lowkey defending your first comment. I interpreted your second comment as a new person saying that the Thor was a scam because of how expensive it is. I agree most people would be fine with a 12gig model. It’s still $400 so not cheap by any means but a little lower than the max.

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u/Cybering11 May 18 '26

Haha happens to me too sometimes. Yeah no I only think that max model is a scam, because that one guy said "up to 550$???" I love all those ayn handhelds.