Bub’s new Steam Deck came a day earlier than I thought it would, and it functions well!

It charges, which made me so happy to see and is something that I hope holds for a very long time!

I have been putting his games on it for the better part of the day and I am excited that he is so excited that he knows he has a functional Steam Deck. Seeing my baby’s happiness brought, or given, back to him makes all of this frustration worthwhile. But he has quite a diverse game collection, so I am aware that this is going to… take awhile, and I am aware that I am going to have to choose which games are installed on the device at any one time substituting them out as needed or even just playing them on the computer because I am not going to pay for a more expensive Steam Deck if it runs the high risk of overheating or just no longer charging one day. This is something that I feel like Valve needs to fix and have fixed before I am willing to buy a more expensive Steam Deck on behalf of my son. If this were, or had been, fixed, I would consider it.

I had to put a replacement Steam Deck on credit for Bub like the first one that I got him because the one that he’s had for… well, years (has it really been that long?) refuses to charge in spite of everything we’ve done to try and save it. We bring this everywhere he goes to calm him down and keep him calm by making most of his games, and favorites at that, accessible to him, so having functioning video game consoles is critical…

This is something I wish I didn’t have to do, but the Steam Deck permanently became non-functional.

I hate the fact that I will have to pay this off, but getting an identical make and model was a lot cheaper!