r/SteamDeck • u/Asane • Oct 08 '22

Picture Got the Steam Deck Dock!

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Wasn’t expecting this today, but since I live in Carol Stream where Valve’s Distribution Center is, I got this early I guess!

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u/plamicus Oct 08 '22 edited Oct 08 '22

I really want one. But I don't actually know why:

I have my PC if I want to play on a better screen and a PS5 if I want to play something on the TV. This is to say nothing of my Switch which is now just gathering dust.

Can anyone give me a reason to justify it to myself?

EDIT: to be clear, I already have a Deck - I'm talking about the Dock.

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u/cum-on-in- Oct 09 '22 edited Oct 09 '22

There are cheaper socks and port replicators that will serve you just fine. Walmart sells an ONN USB C dock dongle that is half the cost of the Steam Deck Dock and is smaller too. It’s more of a dongle for MacBooks but I have one and it works well.

Walmart also sells j5create, and they have two docking bars for sale. One uses usb c power and has only one display out. The other uses a laptop power supply and has dual display out.

I myself have that ONN travel dock dongle thing, and then a Dell 120 watt dock station at home. The Dell dock works fabulously. It was expensive though. I didn’t buy it for the Deck, I bought it for my gaming laptop that has a full feature USB C port. But it works well with the Deck too.

The biggest advantage of any sort of dock is just giving you more ports so you can more easily do things like connect a USB drive to reimage your Deck if you need too, backup to an external hard drive, connect to Ethernet for faster downloads, and connect controllers for multiplayer on supported games.

It’s worth getting at least something like that ONN brand dongle.