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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/TruePlum1 on 2024-10-04 21:39:11+00:00.
I wasn't what someone could call a naysayer, but the deck for a long time felt a bit like a redundant luxury purchase, and not that useful if you already had other devices around the house like a Switch or console/PC. The games you could play on it were likely on other systems already. And I always heard people talking about how fast the battery would drain if you were playing major titles like Spiderman, Baldurs Gate 3 and others, basically requiring you play with this bulky brick like device tethered to a wall outlet. It kept me making me ask "What's the point then?".
I finally got an LCD model used and it's time to admit I was wrong. What I thought this entire time was just "your Steam library in handheld format" is actually just straight up the swiss army knife of gaming as a whole. It DOES do your Steam library, and in impressive form. But it's also a retro gaming machine. It can stream Xbox and Playstation. It can run games from other launchers. It can run games without any launchers at all. It can become a straight up PC if you get the right peripherals. What this thing is capable of doing seems to never end. You can never touch a AAA product in your entire time with this thing and you'll have thousands of hours of gameplay to enjoy, and for barely any extra money or sometimes no money at all if you already have a library amassed on PC.
I know posts like this are a dime a dozen on subs like these, but I just wish I got this device sooner. Maybe in a few years I'll upgrade to the OLED if it gets cheaper but for now I'm already very happy with my LCD model.