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    Steam Deck

    I've had the 64gb model for a couple of weeks now so i think i can offer an opinion on it.

    Once they iron out the software and make it dual bootable with a working version of windows, i think Playstation will be in trouble. Valve and MS have been making eyes at each other for a while now 🤣
    When that PC gamepass app becomes workable on this absolute beast of a handheld, my gaming world will be complete. Its a tinkerers and emulation dream machine.🤩

    Im not one for writing long reviews but if anyone has any questions, fire away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kidgloves View Post
    I've had the 64gb model for a couple of weeks now so i think i can offer an opinion on it.

    Once they iron out the software and make it dual bootable with a working version of windows, i think Playstation will be in trouble. Valve and MS have been making eyes at each other for a while now ��
    When that PC gamepass app becomes workable on this absolute beast of a handheld, my gaming world will be complete. Its a tinkerers and emulation dream machine.��

    Im not one for writing long reviews but if anyone has any questions, fire away.
    What does the PC gamepass app offer?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    What does the PC gamepass app offer?
    For me it's part of a subscription I already pay for. I have 3 years of Ultimate Game pass stacked which is Xbox. PC and streaming games.

    There is a separate PC gampass MS offer

    https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass
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    Quote Originally Posted by kidgloves View Post
    For me it's part of a subscription I already pay for. I have 3 years of Ultimate Game pass stacked which is Xbox. PC and streaming games.

    There is a separate PC gampass MS offer

    https://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-game-pass/pc-game-pass
    What does it do though? Allow you to play Steam games on the PC? Or play PC games on the Steam Deck streaming from a PC? Etc?
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    What does it do though? Allow you to play Steam games on the PC? Or play PC games on the Steam Deck streaming from a PC? Etc?
    It's basically a game subscription service. You install the games locally. I'm excited because it's not something I've managed to take advantage of as I'm not really a PC gamer. Lots of games are on pc but not on xbox. The app is part of Windows
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    So for £8 a month you get to install any of those titles included on your PC? Or on Steam Deck?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    So for £8 a month you get to install any of those titles included on your PC? Or on Steam Deck?
    Yup. There are cheaper ways of doing it. I bought 3 years of xbox live gold membership codes from cdkeys for just over £100. When you take the trial for £1 (can only do it once) it converts the 3 years into xbox gamepass ultimate which is pc and xbox. I saved over £200.
    There are lots of guides on how to do this on the Internet

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    It's why MS bought all those studios. Bethesda, Activision etc.
    All their games go to gamepass. EA play is also included.
    MS have become very gamer friendly since Phil Spencer took over xbox.
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