I tried Steam Deck early and it's AWESOME!

It's my lucky day! Valve let me try the Steam Deck early - And it destroyed my expectations. Just how good is it? Let me explain...

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

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0:00 Intro

[anaguma]

Gotta say I really appreciate the way you've approached this. I feel like a lot of "tech" youtubers will just give some pornographic close ups of it, footage of them playing it and then some general observations. All the effort with the dongles, the heat camera and everything is why you stand out as a channel that actually cares and knows their stuff.

[ChippyGaming]

Hats off to Valve for letting you have so much freedom to do your thing. I learnt way more from this video than anything I’ve seen about the Steam Deck prior.

[theonlygt]

Shoutout to valve for actually allowing Linus to bring and use all his gear. Feel like most demos are a tailored experience.

[badhival]

The freedom Valve gave you with their product shows their confidence

[jackielinde]

Valve Management: "We need to test this. Put it through it's paces."
Scott (probably): "Why not just host a press day, and invite Linus Sebastian from Linus Media Group over to play with the device. If we're lucky, he might even drop the unit."
Valve Management: "Make it so."

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

Just being able to play steam games without having to re buy them from the switch and worrying about cross saves working. I can see the interest😀

[ericbaker]

This kind of format, just letting Linus come in and do his thing (other than taking it apart) shows that Valve really has confidence in this thing. They really just said, "have at it"

[MattMazzagatti]

Nintendo saw this and was like "okay fiiine we'll turn on the Bluetooth."

[thekrakenhim]

This is by far the best "hands on" I've ever seen of a pre-release product. Linus came incredibly prepared to test a wide range of important technical questions and he remains so focused while his excitement for the device is palpable. Fantastic video! The Steam Deck truly feels like the first no-compromises handheld at a reasonable price, and I'm as excited for it as Linus is.

[AnthonyChangBBA]

Of all the people invited to this event, Linus was the most prepared to test all of the Steam Deck's features. I feel like all other journalists just reiterated what we already knew about the device but Linus was, like always, streets ahead.

[uzkjhgfdsewr]

A huge reason why I love watching LTT is the journalistically clear work: you guys don't lick the vendors' butt cracks, you talk about what's there to talk about. I also highly respect you guys for knowing what's important (i.e. not hyping up huge resolutions when they don't make sense).

[littech]

After watching the teardown Linus practically knew where every part in the deck was just by using the thermal. Got CPU, SSD, and battery correct

[DantesGrill]

Linus' experience and professionalism mixed with his extreme nerdiness is always so impressive to watch!

[mrpxl]

This feels like classic LTT (rushed, non-scripted, experimental and free handed, O and Ed holding the camera!), I absolutely love it!

[comrad]

This is how you do a product launch. With transparency. It's such an underrated marketing strategy most of the time, but the best aspect of it is it also sets realistic (or as realistic as you can get) expectations for the product, so people can have a good idea of what they're going to get.

[SeanSpellblade]

Literally the most professional Steam Deck hands-on review so far.

[KMN]

This was exactly the video we needed. Valve, allowing this guy to do his thing just sold me and likely thousands others on your steam deck, bravo. To all other tech companies, if you actually are proud of your product, getting Mr king-of-the-nerds Linus to go all in with his box of tricks and to come out impressed is the only endorsement you'll ever need.

[charliep]

I confess my enthusiasm was a little lukewarm before, but seeing Linus' enthusiasm on top of Valve's guys letting him do his thing and all those tests has me excited for it now!

[pacitoman]

This is why I love Linus. His passion for tech and gaming and his enthusiasm really shows; just to see how excited he is to try it and show us everything about it. That's what makes him unique. I got to know more about the steam deck from this video than all other videos and articles combined.

[canister]

The steam deck has better specs than my desktop PC..