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The trailer is not false advertising.
The Last of Us is extremely bugged right now for people on PC and the devs are working on the fix.
https://youtu.be/Ew9cR82amPA
So "or just hoping that one day that game might be playable?"
What they are showing in their is footage of the game running on a Playstation while being tacked on to a Steam Deck screen. All the evidence is pointing to that scene being an absolute impossibility on the Steam Deck as is.
Until someone can show game running on a Steam Deck to the standard shown, that trailer is just straight up false advertising by every metric.
The game's poor performance isn't their fault, but posting trailer showing a game that doesn't run on their system as their are advertising is. It destroys an legitimacy of any existing or future advertising.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2954238275
How well an online game runs is also dependent on your net work how you have it connected etc
False advertising was me pre-ordering (within a few hours at "launch") a gen4x4 pcie deck then patiently waiting almost a year and when my email came through and I looked it all over still said gen4x4... so coughed up the money only to later find out that no, sorry, is gen4x3 since they figured nobody would notice. haha. ho hum... not complaining, love my 64gb deck and it running my gen4x4 ssd at maxed out 4x3 speeds (which tbh is fast as lightning hehe) saves heat and power compared to gen 4x3 drives so probably a huge bonus :), still.... lol.
You won't get 8 hours unless playing some super low power 2d game like SNES emulation. I didn't mention 2d PC games, because indie PC games like to use Unreal Engine, which is absolutely disgusting for any sort of efficiency or performance.
One particular example is Graven, which has Quake level graphics, but the engine is so ridiculously inefficient it has performance issues on Steam Deck and kills the battery faster than AAA games with raytracing.
Not cool. I don't consider one hour of portable gameplay to be a viable handheld system. You are literally forced to buy a battery bank and clip mod to make the thing actually usable.
The bulkiness of this mod destroys any argument valve has about portability. They could have added an extra pound of battery to get at least 3 hours of time, but I feel they deliberately didn't to appeal to reviewers comparing it to a switch. Valve then has this bubble of fanboys like Apple does, so nobody would tell the truth about battery life, leaving it up to consumers to realize after buying the product.
The console is cool at a surface level, not a practical one. Watch the LTT video on how they modded it to make it better. The device could have used a bigger battery, better heat sink, and Hall Effect joysticks to eliminate stick drift. But it clearly wasn't designed for practicality, so we got no practical features, and just a device that looks better than a switch at a glance.
You call someone's post harassment, but then proceed to do worse...
"The pot calling the kettle black"
I think most of the steam deck community called out valve about their battery... well.. optimism I guess, lol. The original release announcement said up to 10 hours battery life :)
But I do not know, it is an industry where everyone lies about their battery performance and always have, from laptops to phones and other handhelds etc. e.g. breath of the wild on switch runs at 30fps and people get at most 2 hours ?. Most of it is out of valves hands, the things like you mention of badly optimised games they have exactly zero control over really, that is down to the devs. But I have noticed that slowly but surely many of the games that I bought are being improved by valve to run faster and smoother and use less power etc so they are trying.
For them to have added any larger a battery would also have made the deck more like what you complain about the battery mods doing; by making it even more unweildly and uncomfortable and less of a handheld than it already is. You contradict yourself in so many ways.. nobody can use LTT's deck with the giant heatsink and noctua fans strapped to it hanging out of the back, lol.
Hall effect joysticks, emm.. sigh... to get the benefit of them linus had to use the same settings that all users can with the deck that they receive, they are all shipped with large deadzones and it is up to the user to adjust them as low as possible, something that seems unreasonable to ask them to do themselves before shipping every single one. Also remember that valve is already taking an insanely giant financial hit with every single deck shipped.
The console is cool at every level in my mind, and a success on nearly every point. Some peoples expectations were just so insanely inflated that no device that they released can ever impress them. I am constantly amazed by it, saddened by some titles not running as well as they should, but what can you do.
To put it into perspective for a sec, I am running titanfall 2 on it, a game that I missed at launch but was always curios about, with everything set to high and very high I am getting a constant locked 50fps (locked by me to eek a little battery out, not performance) with about 12w total power draw hehe, 3-4 hours of battery, and it looks stunning. I grabbed it on sale at one point for £1.50 :)
If a particular game doesn't work to your expectations then boohoo, like me you must have an insane backlog of games left to play that work perfectly fine, play them instead?
Edit: it is not even all of that, myself including others did not buy a deck purely as a gaming device, lol... it is also a handheld laptop with it's own custom os, or you can dual boot it to windows or other linux distros etc to save us carrying our giant heavy expensive laptops everywhere hehe. Not to mention that you can use it to play games from any other storefront / platform / use emulators / do whatever you want.. the limitations of it are quite amazing really, at for me about 1/4 or less than the price of similar systems that I have been wanting to do even half of all of this for many years but could never justify the expense and risk of ordering something that expensive from china.
To compare it to a locked down under powered overpriced device like the switch that used years old pre-existing hardware even at launch is kind of laughable really :)..
Sorry, honestly I am not a valve/steam fanboy in any single way and neither is linus afaik hehe, he prefers his aya neo / whatever devices, but then, he gets them for free and has the ability to try them all and see what he would prefer with unlimited budget, kind of his job :P... it just frustrates me a little that no matter how cool and small tech gets at prices unheard of there will always be people who complain.
And yeah, I do get 7 or so hours of battery on a lot of the games that I play and enjoy, lol, and also with game streaming you should get close to the upper mark like that I guess?, never really tested it that much so no idea. They are not that far off the mark with how they advertise the battery now depending on use case. The beauty of the deck is that you don't have to be a valve fanboy to use it, do whatever you want with the hardware, it is your choice.
I mean, honestly I was not influenced into pre-ordering the deck by valve or anyone else... I saw the announcement page and looked at the specs and then the price, then re-read the specs and re-read the price... and lol'd hehe.. said ok, if they are willing to try that then sign me up :).. set my alarm for when the pre-orders started haha. I have zero regrets, I thought it was all too good to be true but honestly apart from changing 4x4-4x3 for me then it was pretty much exactly as I expected it to be, and even more... even knowing the specs I did not expect the apu to perform as well as it does, and it keeps getting faster and smoother with each proton update, what is there honestly to complain about ?
If you base your decisions purely on other peoples opinions and reviews and prototype models and hardware testing and whatever without actually knowing the hardware that you are ordering, it's real world price and how it should perform etc and make up your own mind then you cannot blame valve or reviewers or anyone for somehow misleading you in how you spend your own money. I don't remember a single one saying you have to go and buy this now, including valve hehe.