SteamDeckHQ

What size would you recommend ?

Whatever size matters. I ended up buying a 512 GB with 512gb micro SD. I have like three games that take up 100GB (Elden Ring, Witcher 3, and some other game I forget), and like fifty indie games.

What's the battery like when running games or watching movies ?

Depends. It's like a laptop, and depends what you're doing.

I play Elden Ring while it's plugged into my dock + wall outlet, so it's on the big TV. If I played it while portable, it'll last like 1.5 hours.

Where I can play Vampire Survivors or many 2D metroidvanias for like 4 hours.

Any gotcha moments when running a deck?

Be careful because if you're like me, you might no longer build gaming PCs ever again.

I say that and honestly, most graphic intensive games don't look great on Steam Deck. Like Cyberpunk looks great on a mid-level gaming PC where it looks like Lowres muddy blurs on Steam Deck. But if you never knew how it originally looked, you might not complain.

I don't know what the heck I have... I have a steam deck I bought used for less than $150. It works great. The battery life is about 5-6 play sessions. I play medium graphic games at best. Usually 1 hour sessions (give or take) before bed.

I haven't yet don't anything else but may put other emulators on it. So far... It's great and I'd pay full price for one.

When it comes to electronics, I've never once gone "Man, why did I get the largest size?" :)

If you can afford it, get the 1TB OLED. It's only $100 more.

$400 for 256
$55O for 512 - +$150 for 256GB is $0.59 per GB?
$650 for 1TB - +$100 for 512GB or $0.195 per GB. If you compare it to the base model, that's +$250 for 744GB or $0.336 per GB.

They have pretty good autocorrect in case you’re wondering.

For me, it’s mostly indie games and emulation so I think you can get whatever size fits your budget and supplement it with a high capacity micro sd card. i like to do this early and then just install everything on that card. Moving apps to the sd card after the fact sucks hard.

Battery life depends on intensity, but a few hours is reasonable for games. I’ve not watched movies on mine.

As far as gotchas? Not really. It’s a great device and I love mine.