Right now, I’m playing the early access version of Baldurs Gate 3. I’m getting ready to put it down (frustrated: BG3 has the potential to be good, but without controller support, I’m getting really frustrated with the UI. ) and switch to Yakuza Like a Dragon.
What are you playing now and what are you looking forward to playing next?
Full disclosure: I didn’t use Yuzu while I had my steam deck, too busy working through my backlog of steam games laying in bed. But from what I’ve read performance seems to be just ok, not good not great not terrible. People are pulling around 20-25fps with I think? dips into the teens occasionally. The rule of thumb IIRC is expect to need 10x the computing power of the thing you’re emulating with a mature emulator and I really have no idea if steam deck is powerful enough or not to emulate the switch smoothly even with fully mature software which Yuzu certainly isn’t right now. So if you’re only going to be playing in handheld it could really could go either way. Alternatively if you’re willing to perform some surgery on your joy-cons there’s a manufacturer called gulikit that makes hall-effect replacements for joy-cons (IDK where they’re sold). I haven’t heard of any reviews for the joy-con model but I’ve heard good things about their equivalent for steam deck’s thumbsticks.
Thanks for the link to the parts. The problem with my right joycon is the shoulder button stopped working and that button is on the main board so you just need to replace the joycon. It was never dropped, but it seems that these buttons were constructed poorly. I am a bit disappointed with the joycons. I will not be replacing them.
Damn that’s sad, I knew of the joy-con drift issue but the shoulder button issue is new to me. Wish there was some alternative I could think of to help besides new joy-cons which IIRC are pretty expensive. Sorry!. Steam deck hardware is awesome for what it’s worth, very repairable, relatively cheap replacement parts, good performance for the price, and you can go very far down the rabbit-hole with software if you are into that sort of thing. Limited exclusively to switch emulation I wouldn’t recommend it right now at least, but if you’re looking for a more general handheld gaming platform it can’t be beat IMO.
The joycons are pretty trash. I’ve never had a controller break on me in my life. I still have my next controllers. But both joy-cons are broken.