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you at this point we can't get too deep into the software because that's not final yet so this video is going to be focused on the unboxing experience the specs and just uh first impressions of this potentially revolutionary gaming handheld so we got a bunch of different languages telling you places that you can play with it I think we'll toilet they know their audience don't they over there at valve okay so Packaging um we've got nice little like guide so you press this button to bring up this menu press this button to bring up this menu really impressed with the packaging so far I was going to talk about this a little bit more detail later but we actually considered doing a carrying case for the steam deck as like an LTT Store item and then we found out that valve was making their own and I kind of went well hey if uh if it's not any good then maybe that's still something we can explore but unfortunately it seems to be kind of kind of awesome so I got a nice little elastic strap there if you want to strap it onto something we've got this little pouch that you can kind of stash in there if you're into that sort of thing carrying handle seems oh it's in there isn't it well it's probably fine it's pretty armored hold on we'll get to that in a second though first let's have a look at our power adapter might have preferred to see just a type c female Jack on it so that this cable can be replaced with a longer one if I really want but it's a reasonable length my one concern is that the steam decks only charging port is at the top so if you have this plugged in and the Outlet's not right next to you it could actually be a bit of a reach issue to get up and around the device I didn't mention this but the astute among you probably figured this out I'm planning to do size comparisons on ShortCircuit here with all the other gaming hand tubs that we have on hand there it is ladies and gentlemen I opened it upside down trust me I'm a professional so that's fine um yeah that's fine but the outlet has to be pretty much right next to you in fact you often if you can you see that thing so you can see there's actually not a lot of slack on this it would have gotten another six inches if it had been down here but I'm sure valve knew what they were doing when they put the power in on the top if I had to guess based on that I actually used the top charging port on the ineo more often than the bottom charging port I'd say that's because of the weight of the device and what I find is that after even like 10-15 minutes really I have to set it down on something so I suspect it's going to be quite a similar story for the steam deck and the last thing you want to be doing is setting it down on your cable you know causing like a strain or like a breakage so steam deck 650 grams actually I think it's lighter than the ineal I thought it was just due to the better ergonomics oh never mind well okay it feels deceptively light because of the the really nice hand grips back here I'd say that they're designed for someone whose hands are maybe a touch bigger than mine but that doesn't prevent me from Comfortably reaching everything abxy d-pad joysticks everything is easily within reach the only thing is that if I'm playing a driving game and I want finer control over the joysticks up here I need to shift my palm up just a little bit okay let's uh let's do some more size comparisons real quick here so we've got the 1X player mini 566 that's the lightest one of the this class of device and then if you're looking at something like the GPD XD okay so that's around 350 but that's Android based that's not a full fat computer and then for the Big Kahuna the 1X player we're looking at around 782 grams so it's on the heavier side of what's out there right now but because of the ergonomics I'd say it punches down I don't know I don't know what the best way wording that is this video is brought to you by dbrand you know those punksters that are always putting phones in cakes or dumping buckets of chocolate loonies on me well this time the prank is on Nintendo because they're announcing project kill switch haha funny name I I get it which is a case for the valve steam deck that aims to make it a little bit more you know rugged and drop resistant oh I get that one too and also presumably a little bit more ergonomic I haven't had a chance to actually get my hands on it yet because it looks like it's still in very early stages right now but I gotta say the design looks freaking fantastic goes to show you bad people can design good products what hey they started it so you guys can check it out we're gonna have it linked in the video description it's kind of like their grip phone cases so it looks like it has a really nice kind of padded interior to protect your steam deck and then this outer layer that looks like particularly if you have larger hands it's going to be super comfortable so we're gonna have that linked down below and it will actually be released someday unlike Half-Life 3. haha Half-Life 3 joke very very current banana for scale yes thank you thank you very much jono lttstore.com you can get your very own banana for scale also the sweet indoor hoodie now one of the things I'm realizing with all these devices spread out in front of me is there's a lot more to portability than just the weight and I've put a lot of hours on the original ineo and now the 2021 Pro since I did my first Hands-On and one of the things that is really great about it is how flat it is how easily packable but there are a couple of things that make the steam deck even though it's main body segment here is about the same thickness the actual overall profile of the device is like double and that's because of the grips as well as the fact that the joysticks are more of a full-size controller class of joystick with super long travel compared to pretty much all of these other devices like look at the profile of these joysticks next to each other Hoffman can you see that so you can see there's like double the travel so if you want finer control this is going to be it but you know this I could conceivably put in my pocket like when I'm walking around the mall and I did that the other day right my son and I were going for haircuts and I knew I was gonna have to wait for him for 20 minutes so I just grabbed the Neo Chuck it in my pocket we're walking around the mall steam deck um I mean yeah maybe but I wouldn't really recommend it you're putting a lot of strain on that thumbstick fortunately valve's approach to right to repair so far has been exemplary so I'm expecting it to be very easy to get your hands on and replace these thumbsticks if you do accidentally screw them up one of the other things that's really standing out to me before even turning it on is the anti-glare coating for the preview valve set out the 512 gig version which has okay well it has some other extras it has like a special keyboard theme or something like that but the big one is this kind of etched glass anti-glare coating you guys can kind of see how the reflection is compared to these other devices which are mirror-like see that it's kind of hazy so it's got a quad core zen2 CPU eight threads total 16 gigs of LP ddr5 memory so it's running at 5500 Mega transfers per second that's going to help both with CPU performance and more importantly the onboard GPU it's running our dna2 Graphics instead of Vega based Graphics which means that theoretically we are looking at significantly better GPU performance on this compared to everything else on this table so on the top you got pretty much an Xbox controller like layout so you got your d-pad left thumb stick you've got your start and select whatever the modern names for that are on the Xbox controller two microphones I have very high expectations for both the microphone and speaker on this thing based on my experience with the valve index for a company that doesn't make dedicated audio products valve seems to know a freaking lot about audio uh you got your abxy second thumbstick we already saw what these buttons are supposed to do so this one is your steam button which brings up your steam Library steam store anything steam settings and then this one right here is going to bring up your like your system overlay I mean I guess I don't need to get into too much detail about that right now because that's sort of software volume buttons headphone jack USBC so that's for charging or connecting to the dock which we don't have unfortunately power button and then we've got shoulder buttons oh those feel pretty good actually I'd say that's a nice respectable travel distance on those triggers then you've got L3 and R3 when you press in the analog sticks by the way these are capacitive so they're touch sensitive on the top which is pretty cool yeah I know right then you've got L4 R4 L5 R5 on the back now personally I've never really daily driven a scuff type controller with uh with the back paddle actually I do have an elite controller I've never really used them but what I will say is they are super easy to access you got to kind of shift your grip on the device a little bit so it's kind of you kind of clawed a little bit more but I'd say they're a really good balance of pressing force and like tactile response actually all the buttons feel pretty darn good I wouldn't mind if the abxy were a little bit shorter travel I do have a preference for that but there's definitely better feeling than the Neo but the Neo I think the problem is just that they have the long travel and the small buttons I feel like you got to pick one oh I guess I never really talked to size comparison with the 1X player so you can see the profile is actually quite similar because the 1X player also has a sculpted grip like the steam deck everyone's taken a very similar approach to cooling it's almost like there's just a best way to do this you've got your intake at the back exhaust out the top it's the only way to get the heat into the unit without getting suffocated for sure and away from the user here's the size comparison with the full-size 1X player that thing is such a such a chungus surprisingly though it's a touch narrower full-size 1X player with the lake almost nine inch display oh now's probably a good time to talk display specs it's 1280 by 800 so that's 16 by 10 aspect ratio 7 inches it's very similar in terms of specs to the eye Neo it's rated for a typical brightness of only 400 compared to 500 nits but if the black levels are anything to go by I think once we actually get the game loaded up here we go it's gonna look significantly better compared to the 1X player it's not going to be as sharp so 1X has decided to go for a 1440p class display I believe it's 2560 by 1600s on the full size 1X player and then this one I believe is a 1920x1200 but the reality of it is that the processors in these things they're not going to be able to drive that kind of resolution anyway so personally I agree with Aya and valve's decisions here this feels like probably about 20 FPS right now so let's see if there's anything we can do to fine tune that a little bit oh wait what the heck why is it running at non-native resolution there we go wow that's gotta be a solid 30 FPS now you know it is amazing how good a modern game looks even at lower medium details on a display this size like it makes a huge difference to be running this class of Hardware compared to you know what Nintendo's put in the switch which is basically like a six-year-old phone processor let's fire up a game that I can run side by side and compare now to go much deeper I want to spend more time with it and you're going to have to tune into the full LTT video but there are a couple of little things I want to try real quick here first is the mouse this pad is set up to control the mouse cursor and it kind of vibrates actually here can you hear this oh yeah crazy right oh it's momentum based so you can be like and kind of flick it over and it'll kind of Rumble so kind of almost like it feels like uh like a like a friction ball or something that you're rolling your finger over so you can move it or you can throw it and then this one you can use as a touch pad to oh I guess you could just use it as a d-pad if you want to that seems to be how it's configured right now one of the great things about the steam controller was how highly configurable it was you could use it to play just about anything from FPS to third person to racing to even like RTS games uh and I believe valve intends to continue that Legacy here because they certainly aren't continuing that Legacy in the form of steam controllers just take a moment to appreciate that Forza Horizon 5 a Microsoft game is launching on Linux like we're not talking software much today like I said but huh valve rates the 50 watt hour battery for anywhere from two to eight hours depending on what you're doing so it sounds like that's going to end up quite similar to the 47 watt hour battery in the eye Neo which gets just under two hours under the heaviest loads and much more than that if you turn down the performance profile of the soc or whatever else what else is there to really say it's got Wi-Fi Bluetooth all the connectivity that you'd expect and we are now loaded into Forza Horizon 5. on a Linux based machine if I had to guess I'd say this is somewhere in the neighborhood of it's actually really hard to tell that's interesting see my car looks great that looks like 60 FPS locked but then there's kind of this judder or stutter or something when I look at objects in the distance can you see that that's like it's very subtle here let me show you this one for comparison man it's hard to even show this one to you guys because the screen's so shiny by comparison see how the towers and stuff are smoother more motion you say nope they are both set to exactly the same settings you're looking for distant objects whether they look smooth or whether they look juttery oh yeah okay so you know what I'm you can see what I'm talking about on camera it's not final and we have a lot more investigation to do over the next six days actually let's talk acoustics to my ear which obviously is not very scientific it sounds very similar to the Aya Neo in its 15 watt profile and that would be at exe fan mode whatever that means so that's kind of what I try to aim for for an enjoyable gaming experience otherwise it gets this thing gets loud in Wild fan mode and that's really impressive considering that that's an at 15 watts and this is a 25 watt chip running in auto mode right now thank you wow the sound stage on this thing it sounds so good okay that is impressive and you guys aren't even getting the directionality like an absolute toy by comparison this makes noise this has a sound system and I think that pretty much wraps up the ShortCircuit First Impressions guys head over to LTT for our full first 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