Beat It, PS Vita! Marvel's Spider-Man PC Will Fully Support Steam Deck

I’d kill for one of these. I still play my Vita regularly although I’m not sure the Steam Deck will be as comfy to play in bed!

I love my Steam Deck. Granted I use mine to play a ton of emulation but it's still a blast to play games on.

Playing Spider-man Remastered on the go is insane to me, plus I'm sure it will take no time until someone mods in the original Peter!

Just started playing Doom Eternal on the Deck and at high settings I get a solid 60fps on it. I’ll definitely give Spider-Man another whirl on it.

😊CAN'T WAIT for this to appear on Switch...

I remember the time when I mentioned that Sony should do a PS4 portable that plays digital PS4 games, and everyone here said it was impossible. No so impossible now that the Deck proved otherwise.

PC gamers really have it made these days. Full AAA support from Microsoft, growing AAA support from Sony, the largest gaming library in existence, and the potential for hybrid play via Steam Deck.

It's also shockingly cheap for what it is. Boggles my mind that you can buy a handheld that's more capable than a PS4 for $400.

The Vita still feels somewhat modern. The 3ds feels borderline nostalgic. The Switch feels feels very dated when compared to its current Gen counterparts…I hope that by the time the next iteration of the Switch comes out, they can make it at least as powerful as the Steam Deck and in a more ergonomic form factor.

I don’t own it but Steam Deck is such amazing value. Seems like a great system with a long shelf life

@rockodoodle Knowing Nintendo their next Switch will have the same internals or slightly weaker than the current Switch just with a bigger screen and 5G. Nintendo just lives in a separate reality from the rest of us but at least they are happy 😅

@Juanalf they will milk this console for all its worth and then some. Probably 2025 before we see a new one, which is fine with me. As I mentioned, I am hoping that the longer they stretch it out, the better the specs will be.

Pre-ordered and storage ready!

@Dman10 I'm guessing that when you made the comment. There was nothing like RDNA 2 on the market for a mobile device. So getting PS4 level performance from a 15W APU was thought to be near impossible...

Hopefully the Steam Deck does well. I would like Sony to take another swing at the handheld market again. Seems like like the route to go. I play the Switch pretty often.

@get2sammyb Hot and noisy is exactly not what I want anywhere near my bed.

I have to imagine that sony is paying attention the the ups and downs of the steam deck to see if its worth them attempting a third hand held. It has to be a little bitter sweet to see there vision of AAA games being played on a mobile device that they did not create.

I have one, but I’ve only played very undemanding game so far, like Visual Novels and Trails in the Sky. I’m about to play the Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, which I’ve been wanting to play since launch.

As a PlayStation website who barely covered the death of VITA and took far to long to produce any sort of article about how amazing the VITA was, that headline is a joke.

Shame on you PushSquare. Shame.

I've owned pretty much all the consoles over the last thirty years at some point or another including a PS5 and a series X currently, I also have a decent gaming laptop too. I can tell you one thing for certain, nothing has ever wowed me like the deck did when I first fired it up. It is an utterly amazing piece of technology.

I really haven't played anything else but my steam deck since March. It is fantastic and I totally agree with thebiz', it is an amazing bit of tech.
As for spiderman, can I really buy it again for the 3rd time... oh, go on then.

Haven't got one yet but I will, looks awesome and as someone who doesn't game on PC I am looking forward to the Steam library for those Indies we don't get on PS. The Vita won't be put to one side though as it is better sized for travel IMO.

@nessisonett I'd disagree, but I don't want it from my gaming hardware 😉

Vita should've been called PSP2 - people would've know what they were getting then. And it should've had a clip on UMD accessory.

Time for PSP 3? Absolutely! Get Cerny on it, Sony!

I still have my Vita slim and recently acquired a Switch Lite. The Vita just fits in the hand so much better than the Nintendo Fisher Price collaboration. The controls and UI are an absolute joy and I just play the Vita more. Sure the new games have dried up but I still have a large backlog of some of the best portable games to get through!

Due to go on holiday soon - no prizes for guessing which handheld I'll be taking with me! Anyone want a blue Switch Lite? Barely used?

I wouldn't mind one so I just decided to watch a review and the guy said from full charge and you run say God Of War it only had 90 minute run time. Also when charging and playing they also said after 5 mins of playing it lost 6% of charge while plugged in, they even tried their Macbook Pro charger that is 85watt charger and it still drained.

Bring back the Vita.

I learned two very big lessons with the PSV.

1. Sony will not support their handhelds so don't bother buying one.
   2. Handheld gaming is not my thing anymore.

I’m waiting for a Deck revision before I buy in.

The current one is just too large for my taste.

It's depressing that Sony's putting more effort in to Gaben's handheld than they did their own....

@sanderson72 I think the fact that they're officially endorsing a 3rd party phone clip for remote play tells us their stance on PSP3....

Which works great, I've started doing that since most of my handheld play is at home anyway, and set up my XSS and one of the old PS4s as local streaming servers, and it's honestly fantastic to a lightweight phone handheld. And I realized I have a backlog of a dozen plus huge JRPGs for PS4 to the point that my streaming server PS4 is likely to get a LOT of use. Much more than my PS5 currently. Ironically the PS4 feels a lot snappier when you're not hearing the fans roar and the plastic stress-creaking. I'm running it headless in another room. It always seemed slow and janky when it was my main console, but headless and away from the sound, it seems like a new machine even though it's my old launch day PS4 Eraser. But as a handheld it all doesn't reliably work away from home.

I'd considered a deck and getting back into Steam, but between PS, XB, and NSW, I really need a 4th ecosystem to quadruple dip games on like I need a hole in the head.

@rockodoodle Honestly the old Switch feels almost as dated as 3DS which feels unabashedly retro, but the OLED switch feels like a fully modern device. The framerate in so many games is horrendous, but on the other hand it's a handheld that runs silent and ice cold for hours running them, so it' doesn't feel like an antiquated tradeoff.

For those that are getting a steam deck, are you looking forward to..
A, your massive library
B, getting new games
C, rebuying games you already own, elsewhere, just to have it portable(ie GoW, HZD, Days Gone, etc)

@NEStalgia Sadly, I think you're right - unless we could convince Jimbob Ryan of the millions of dollars it'd make (even if it wouldn't)

I've still got the Hori grip for the Vita slim so I'm all set on the remote play front! Strange they are probably worth more than the new grip thing!
PS4 Pro is whirring along quite nicely still with its internal SSD and I've treated it to some new thermal paste.

Nice 1 Jim Ryan. Well done for diluting the PlayStation brand with bringing PlayStation Exclusives to PC etc etc :-/ & SONY wonder why their PlayStation sales are going down.

@sanderson72 It's funny that while Switch prints money with a 2013 Android tablet, neither Sony nor MS will touch a handheld with a barge pole. Though, nobody wants to have to make two game libraries, and Nintendo solved that by just splitting the difference and making the weak hardware the baseline. IDK that Sony could get away with a PS5 that just runs PSP3 quality games in higher res

I have so many PS4's sitting around. 3 Phats, no slims, 2 Pros. (Somehow a few people here think I "hate PlayStation", lol) I figured the Pro runs screaming hot and loud, and while the launch PS4 isn't tremendously better, I don't need to burn that kind of heat to stream a 720p output game to my DIY Vita 2 streaming phone. The Pro and 5 can stream 1080p while the base model can't, but at 6.47" (less at 16:9) I doubt it matters, and just strains the wifi stream to be more prone to stutter. I don't want to use the 5 because why put wear and tear on a $500 (maybe soon $600?) console that's still impossible to replace to run a headless streaming server to stream JRPGs. Someday I might have to get a spare 5 as a streamer though if they ever get a price cut and become available. The 5 has better streaming codecs though.

I never had the Hori grip. I tried to play RP with just the Vita, and it's a reason I was super hyped for both WiiU and PS4 with all the remote play capabilities, but without the grip the Vita never quite did it.

I have to say the phone setup (I don't have that crossbone one or whatever Sony officially sponsored because that one is Apple-only. I have the Kishi 2, Razer's clone of that one for Android-only.) The phone battery is a nightmare and constantly drains, but it honestly feels so much like a Vita between the crisp OLED and light weight, and clicky buttons. I love Switch OLED which is the real Vita successor...but the phone setup has the Vita feel! Doesn't hurt that I demoed it with games I actually played on Vita.....

I still have a vita and use it regularly. When I'm at different job sites especially when dropping a deuce.

LONG LIVE THE VITA!

If being honest the thing that killed the vita besides the lack of support from sony was that memory cards were to damn expensive

Oddly enough, it was easier and cheaper for me to get a Ps5 than a Steam Deck. I love handheld consoles, but was able to get Ps5 through Amazon using credit card points. I got my Ps5 for free! I would have probably opted for Steamdeck…..probably will still get one eventually.

Seriously it feels like Sony is helping Valve Corporation to promote their Steam Deck instead of making another PlayStation Portable or a PS Vita 2 or a PlayStation Hybrid Console. I wish Sony have a Hybrid Console like the Nintendo Switch.