It will be tied to Microsoft and Gamepass heavily. Neither of those things interest me.

Yes I know, that is because Phonak use Bluetooth classic, and older standard with more lag, more battery consumption and less quality but far more compatibility. I heard you can connect a Phonak to pretty much anything Bluetooth capable, even old dumb phones or mp3 players.

I have the Resound Nexia which use Bluetooth LE audio, MFI and ASHA protocol which are supposedly better but you need devices that support them. MFI is for Apple devices and ASHA is Android exclusive. But outside of that you are pretty much screwed. LE Audio and the LC3 codec are here (since several years ago) to fix that but adoption it’s being very slow.

For what I’ve read the distro in which Steam OS is based has already BT LE audio and the LC3 codec support built in but it is up to Valve to implement it at a OS level. One can dream :)

Headphones because I use hearing aids and thus I can’t use earbuds at the same time. Speakers if there is no one around and/or I’m just tired of headphones.

Hopefully some day the Steam Deck will include Bluetooth LE audio and LC3 codec and then I will be able to stream directly into my hearing aids :)

This is the way!

Oh, didn’t know, it’s pretty cool, the few “optimized” games I’ve played didn’t have it, so I assumed that this was first.

Is “Steam Deck” a preset in the graphic settings selector? If so it is pretty cool, I’ve seen many games claim “optimized for settings “ but unless there is a preset is up to the user to fiddle until it get the optimal settings. This is a cool idea, haven’t seen it before.

Yes, sorry, I forgot to put the quotes on official.

What’s the point of an official Deck controller if it doesn’t have touchpads?

Thanks, the last one looks very handy for me.

I’m using Heroic Launcher for my Epic/GOG/Amazon games right now. Now that I’ll have to reinstall again when the new OLED Deck arrives, is there a better option or should I keep it.?