It Takes Two was definitely worth it, so I’m hoping this game will be too.

Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense for repairs when you can buy a new 256GB for just $50.

The stock comes and goes, but you can also buy the 64GB refurbished model for $279 as well.

When ifixit originally leaked repair part prices, they actually did have a motherboard listed as a replacement part that was intended to be purchasable. However, it was priced at $350, which obviously isn’t worth it compared to the price of a full deck (especially when on sale).

It’s possible they could sell it for cheaper now that the Deck’s production volume is higher, but basically with the normal Deck’s being originally priced to sell at a loss, major repair parts like the motherboard cost too much individually to be worth buying at standard price + ifixit markup.

The only catch there is that installing mods can be tricky depending on the game and method. Steam workshop mods and games with integrated mod support (BG3, DRG, etc) are super easy to install mods for, but the mod installation process for many other games can vary on difficulty.

Hopefully this will all change with with the rise of more official Linux mod loaders like the new Nexus mods app.

Their big thing is that the new steam deck 2 has to be a significant performance increase over the existing steam deck, and that’s not really an option yet

This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

The mics work well, but the speech to text can be hit or miss sometimes. You have to talk more clearly than you would when using your phone’s speech to text