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I’m a big “v2” person. Usually if a product gets a v2 it’s going to be supported for a bit and all of the returned consoles with a broken X have a much better X in V2. But that doesn’t help you if you want to play games now! My kids are still young so I think by the time v2 comes they will be game ready.

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Problem is that Valve have yet to ever go to V2 for their hardware unfortunately.

Also not a bad reason to wait. If it's not important enough for them to iterate on to make better/cheaper because it's still selling, it might be better to skip for most people.

Thankfully, I've only heard good things about the steam deck, so hopefully they'll fix whatever hardware/manufacturing problems they might find and make changes to make it better.

Barring that, I hear it's popular enough that there will probably be third party "equivalent" hardware soon, and maybe they would see it as profitable enough to iterate and make better if valve for some reason doesn't.

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