• money_loo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Well it’s not made for those things, so I’m not upset it doesn’t do them.

    And there actually is a reason it doesn’t use Bluetooth headphones, because Bluetooth adds latency and there would be a delay trying to use them for gaming.

    You can see this happen now with a lot of VR headsets, the delay from Bluetooth is really noticeable enough to break immersion.

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      11 months ago

      Well it’s not made for those things

      Yes that’s the problem.

      And there actually is a reason it doesn’t use Bluetooth headphones

      Yes, because Sony wants more of your money.

      because Bluetooth adds latency

      My guy we have had low latency Bluetooth standards for a long time. You are being duped by corporate propaganda. Do a Google for “AptX LL”. I use Bluetooth headphones on my SteamDeck all the time with no observable latency.

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        11 months ago

        Yes that’s the problem.

        Yes, I understand some people wanted it to do or be more, as I said I am not one of those people. I just wanted an awesome remote play device because I was tired of connecting my phone to various things just to get a weak facsimile of my PlayStation.

        I won’t be mad if they update it to do more, but I’m certainly not knocking points off the thing simply because it isn’t a Swiss Army knife for gaming. I could use my SteamDeck for that.

        My guy we have had low latency Bluetooth standards for a long time. You are being duped by corporate propaganda. Do a Google for “AptX LL”. I use Bluetooth headphones on my SteamDeck all the time with no observable latency.

        And yet when I use it I do notice a tiny bit of latency, which is fine for the most part in nearly everything I play, but I’m not sure I’d want to play a rhythm based game on it.

        I’m not alone in this either: Steam Desk - Bluetooth audio latency issues

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          11 months ago

          I’m not alone in this either: Steam Desk - Bluetooth audio latency issues

          You can see the solution in the first reply. The Steam Deck is not a ground-up gaming device, it’s a handheld X86 PC, and that’s great but also makes it harder to do a lot of the things people have come to expect from something like a Nintendo Switch, PlayStation or Xbox.

          In short, this is not a limitation of Bluetooth itself, but rather of configuration, which should not be an issue on a single-purpose game streaming device.

          Again I would encourage you to look up aptX LL, it’s only 40ms of latency.