Boy, where do I even start with this? So, there’s this YouTuber, a dude named Jon Bringus, and he’s got his hands on this prototype Steam Deck thing — I mean, it’s like an early version, a sneak peek if you will. Some guy on X (which, by the way, was Twitter before Elon decided to flip the whole thing on its head) lends it to him. Calls himself SadlyItsDadley. I know, I laughed too.
So, Jon comes along, and first thing, he’s tearing the thing apart on his channel. It’s like watching a kid at Christmas, except he’s way more careful. Uh, maybe like a surgeon with a gaming obsession? Anyway, he finds this paper inside, says something like “POC2-34 Control 163” — whatever that’s supposed to mean. Proof-of-concept blah blah, I guess.
He wasn’t just satisfied with looking, oh no. He fires this puppy up and tries playing some games on it. Quite the journey Valve’s been on, bringing us this handheld console deal. Ha, almost feels like they casually strolled into their success.
Oh, and then he notices how this thing looks, which I find hilarious. The touchpads are these gigantic circle things, pretty much like two giant eyes staring at you. Not those clean rectangles they use now. And the joysticks? Tiny! Almost like they meant it for ants. BIG difference from the sleek stuff we’re used to.
Now, let’s talk guts. AMD Ryzen 7 3700U, 8GB RAM — not bad, not bad. Oh, they had a 256GB SSD in there too, which Jon cleverly copies over to preserve all that historic data, you know, like some kind of data archeologist or whatever. Inside the drive, he finds this old SteamOS from back in the day — like a snapshot of 2020 before the world went… well, sideways. Three accounts on there, but sadly, mystery number ‘34’ stayed locked. Who knows what secrets it held… all very cloak-and-dagger.
Jump to today and, wow, look at the handheld gaming scene! It wasn’t just Nintendo doing their Switch thing anymore; once Steam Deck shows up, everyone’s trying to get in the game — Asus, Lenovo, MSI. It’s like a gaming console dance-off, and who’s gonna complain when we get all these shiny toys, right?
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