Dan Stapleton
banner
danstapleton.bsky.social
Dan Stapleton
@danstapleton.bsky.social
Retired. Formerly IGN’s Director of Reviews, EIC of GameSpy, and Reviews Editor at PC Gamer. Dad (so expect dad jokes). Careful: you might hear some opinions.
Sure, but if you’re working with something 6x as powerful as the Deck a lot less tweaking will be required. Especially if more developers start putting out recommended Steam Deck/Machine presets. It’ll only get easier from here.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’d say that’ll be true vs a Steam Deck 2 in a few years, but with the Deck now as old as it is and if you prefer to play on a TV vs handheld it’s pretty easy to justify spending a little more for a lot more power.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Not perfect, no - but 9 times out of 10 it behaves exactly like a console.
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My soundbar has an HDMI passthrough, so I plug my Apple TV into that.
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Right now on the Steam Deck, yeah - but if they're elbowing into the living room with this thing and replacing consoles it'll be much more common.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The switch I got has auto-detect, but I have a Samsung TV that wants to auto-detect every new device that's plugged in so it's a hassle every time.
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Go to 4-5 years and that's basically a console generation.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We use it a lot! At least, we will for the next few months until my Game Pass sub expires.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This doesn't look like the kinda thing you'll wanna buy and then upgrade a bunch (outside of storage), TBH. If tinkering is your thing and you've got cash there's no reason to not go with a traditional gaming PC instead.
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I might even be willing to do something crazy like this if it would do the same auto-switching that the TV does by itself, but I don't want to ask my family to use two remotes or even get a whole universal remote setup that complicates everything.
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Mine has a passthrough so I plug my AppleTV into that.
November 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I am lucky that my 10-year-old is not nearly so pepper-averse!

Any pro tips for how to encourage him to eat stuff and not decide in advance that he hates it?
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I wouldn't call mine ultra picky but he's 10 now and progress has been a heck of a lot slower than I expected, and there's little rhyme or reason. He'll eat a hamburger unless any type of condiment (including cheese) has touched it... but he'll eat cheese pizza or a grilled cheese. Baffling.
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
It was very "Have their cake and eat it too" in that respect. Not a period piece so much as an alternate reality where technology went faster but fashion went slower.
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Yeah I'm a fan of not rushing things but I am also a fan of seeing another X-Men movie before I'm 50. And given the way the Blade reboot seems to have somehow died on the vine I'm not brimming with confidence.
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
It was cool that it was retro-futuristic - old-timey fashion and CRTs everywhere (including building-sized ones) but flying cars, competent robots, and FTL are NBD.

Apparently the 1920s Blade costumes were repurposed for Sinners?
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This was the first Marvel movie I've watched with my son (though we saw Superman together in the theater a few months back). I guess now I've gotta speed run him through the whole MCU (or at least the good ones) before this time next year.
November 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Oh, you better believe I got the hot dog.
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM