The best description I've seen is, it's not for people who want to play more games, but those who want to play games mores. With all the other things going on in life, been able to just press a button and resume where you left off in 5 seconds is such a game changer compared to the rest of the ecosystem.
- You don't have to rebuy games for a premium if you already used steam before
- Synced saves with your PC if the game supports it
- Great performance for a handheld with a solid battery
- Great variety of inputs, and almost everything can be customizable (if you don't fancy the official button layouts there is a community coming up with custom ones)
- You can turn it into a regular computer if needed
- It is big enough to hold for my hands. With Switch or iPad my hands hurt after a while, not with steam deck.
- Repair-ability it is actually easy to fix
- You can download emulators for switch, gameboy and all the other older consoles
- I enjoy some games more on the deck then on the desktop
I love mine and I consider it to be the best purchase I made this year. By far.
I’ve got a third-party dock and a portable USB-C hub with HDMI port, to literally carry it everywhere.