Steam Deck.

I’ve never owned a decent gaming machine, for various reasons. Cost was a big factor. Another was the fact that I was never a big “gamer”. Very little desire to play the big, popular, AAA games in general. The games I did play, I played on a very old PC, and the performance was what you’d expect from low end hardware; but I just never had any desire to build my own gaming rig.

The Steam Deck is perfect for my use case:

• I have no desire to run Windows
• I have no desire to build my own gaming machine
• I have no desire to get locked into a console ecosystem (Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, etc).
• I can play handled, docked to a monitor with keyboard and mouse, docked to a monitor with a controller, docked to a TV, etc etc
• I can play games built for Windows
• I can play games with native Linux builds
• I can play Steam games, Epic games, DRM-free games, emulated games, etc, etc
• I can do whatever the hell else I want to do with it. For example, maybe I might want to run Kodi on it, and connect to my Jellyfin server at home to watch a movie if I’m staying at a hotel. Whatever. It’s just a computer like any other. I can do whatever I want.

I think I’ve probably played more new (to me) games since buying my SD than in all the years (decades) previous, and I love it.

PC mainly, but a couple months ago I got a Steamdeck, and I can now play from the couch on the TV.

I’ve wanted to be able to play from the couch for a long time, but I did not want a PC on the TV, so this is a very good option.

I can play casually and also play coop sometimes easily.

Most importantly, I don’t have to be in my “office” room, since I work from home, it is good to be away from the room I am all day working on.

Mostly PC, I have a PS5/PS4, switch, and xbox series as well. The xbox is basically collecting dust as most games that come out there are also on PC. The PS5 gets some use when there’s an exclusive and the switch is somewhere… I just don’t know where… Maybe in the couch?

Custom built pc.

I play some games on my ps3 bit I also use my computer for newer games and emulators