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Great fix. Easy decision to make if you have the storage.

Tears of the Kingdom, on Switch 1, you could see the whole way across the map yet Gamefreak can't handle a few NPCs in a city more than a few metres away even on Switch 2. Honestly this is just incompetent in 2025.

Would be disappointing on an indie game but Pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world, it's embarrassing.

@NandoCalrissian They suggested OEMs might build different specifications. But hopefully they release Steam OS and we can build our own systems with better specs but still take advantage of things like boot/instant on from the controller and immediate resume, like Steam Deck.

Price will be all important. For the specs it SHOULD be cheaper than PS5 but will it be? Also only having an 8GB VRAM option is disappointing for 2 reasons.

1. It will prolong 8GB being base level
2. It will limit what this can do.

Either way it's pretty exciting, but personally i'd want higher specs.

UPDATE Steve from Gamers Nexus said Valve hinted it would be priced more like an entry level PC than a console.

Thanks @Rich_Leadbetter appreciate the reply. All fair points. I guess my point was if you are naming PS5 as a comparison that naturally invites the other comparisons too. Though as you rightly say value is hard to compare with so many other factors, it isn't just the box price.

That $999 PC is a great deal, assuming they haven't cheaped out on some components. Maybe this will FINALLY be the year I replace my old rig, but i've been saying that for years. lol

Great to see DF have it's own website. Best of luck with it.

Rich. I was wondering what the full systems specs were of the test rig, that information seems to be absent here.

Either way I suspect it would still be a struggle to hit that £699 budget with a £350 and £400 GPU assuming you aren't Linus-ing it and buying second hard parts. What was the RRP of your build?

The naysayers will probably have a good old whinge, but i've been pretty happy with mine. After selling my launch PS5 I got the Pro from Very for around £270 net + drive, that's fine for an enthusiast to (mostly) play at the highest console fidelity for the 3+ years with fewer compromises.

Bit of a shame about the handful of games they run worse, but it is the minority.

Good job getting up so many previous posts. Best of luck with the new website DF.

Nice work. Hope the comments are as good as on EG.

Shame there are no threaded comments though it makes it much harder to have, and follow, a conversation.

Onwards and upwards DF.