The 3 portable consoles that come to fight Steam Deck

The 3 portable consoles that come to fight Steam Deck

The concept of portable console has changed a lot in recent years, and it’s all due to the progress that has been made technologically speaking in terms of processors and internal components. Now, the brains of these types of devices are more capable, and they give life to authentic gaming machines that you can take wherever you want.

Everybody wants a Steam Deck

Steam Deck de Valve.

It is on everyone’s lips. Orders have multiplied in recent months, and the performance that the console is offering has amazed all the onlookers who followed it out of the corner of their eye. Steam has marked the times, and has defined what is considered a portable console today. With the appearance of Nintendo Switch, the console hides a powerful brain that allows you to play practically everything, and of course, that has attracted a lot of attention, both from consumers and manufacturers.

This interest in the industry has caused many manufacturers to reinvent the wheel, which is why some surprise with launches that we did not expect at all.

The competition? by Steam Deck

In recent weeks, very interesting models have been appearing with very defined characteristics that surround the idea and concept of a Steam Deck. We leave you with the alternatives that will arrive in the coming months:

Logitech G Cloud

Logitech G CLoud

Logitech has surprised with its console for the cloud, the so-called Logitech G Clou d. It is a device with a 7-inch screen with Full HD resolution that has a Snapdragon 720G processor inside. This processor obviously could not run high-caliber games, but its function is as simple as playing streaming content, something it does really well.

And it is that this console is designed to be used with services such as GeForce Now or Xbox Game Pass, subscriptions that are obviously not included in their price and that will allow you to play hundreds of games by connecting directly to the cloud. For that, it has dual-band WiFi, although not with an LTE connection.

Its official price is $349.99 , and it is currently available for purchase in the United States and Canada.

Razer Edge

Razer Edge

Razer has also signed up for cloud consoles, and it does so with a very, very original proposal. This Razer Edge is something of a chameleon, as a simple 6.8-inch tablet can be turned into a gaming device in seconds. Its Qualcomm Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 processor makes its intentions very clear, since we are talking about a processor specially designed for gaming.

In addition, the screen with FHD + resolution (2,400 x 1,080 pixels) is of the AMOLED type and offers 144 Hz refresh rate , so we are talking about a spectacular cover letter. The problem with the refresh rate is that taking advantage of it in cloud services will be difficult, since NVIDIA reaches 120 FPS and Xbox Game Pass stays at 60 FPS at the moment.

Because yes, this Razer product is designed to play in the cloud, although we can also install Android games from its Razer Nexus interface, where we could take advantage of those 144 Hz.

This Razer Edge will be priced at $399.99 for its base model. There will also be a model with a 5G connection whose starting price is unknown at the moment.

AYA Neo Air

AYANEO Air

This is possibly one of the great rivals for the Steam Deck, since we could say that they play in the same league. And we are talking about a device with an AMD Ryzen 5 5560 Zen 3 processor, that is, it is a miniature PC, in the same way as Steam Deck. With 16 GB of RAM and a Radeon 6 iGPU graphics and 512 GB of storage, the device is quite a wonder, and all in a size similar to that of a Nintendo Switch Lite, since it mounts a 5.5-inch AMOLED screen.

But then again, this incredible list of specs translates into a price that starts at $549, making it a product that costs more than the Steam Deck.

The great advantage of Steam Deck

It is clear that the great advantage that Steam Deck has over its opponents is the value for money. Much has been said that Steam is selling its console at a loss, since with such hardware it is impossible to reach a price like that in any other manufacturer.

It may still lack official support for installing Windows 11 (it’s possible to install but requires a lot of work), but overall the product is amazing.