The base model of the Steam Deck only has 64GB of eMMC storage. It’s a joke. Don’t buy it.
The Steam Deck got revealed yesterday, and it’s surprisingly affordable for a PC gaming product. $399 in the US for a handheld gaming PC with a 2TFLOP GPU? Consider me sold. Oh, it has just 64GB of eMMC? Nevermind. Now that major PC games can take up over 100GB of storage, it’s absolutely silly to sell something like the Steam Deck, which advertises that it can run any game in your Steam Library, with such a paltry amount of storage. So, if you’re going to buy a Steam Deck, while the $399 entry price is probably pretty appealing – especially since the Switch OLED is just a bit cheaper at $349 – you might want to either hold off, or pick up one of the more capacious versions. One of the best things about PC gaming in general is the abundance of indie games, and I know plenty of people that pretty much exclusively play these games. Titles like Hades, Hollow Knight and Disco Elysium are the lifeblood of PC games these days. But even if you’re just looking for a way to get a few runs of Dead Cells in on your daily commute, the 64GB of storage is only going to be enough for a few games, especially if you have a big AAA game that you want to work your way through. It’s a similar situation to the Nintendo Switch, of course. The handheld console has even less internal storage at 32GB, but it can offset the requirement for huge game installs with something the Steam Deck can’t offer: game cartridges.
