This is the allure for me as well. The trackpads make it so I can play any style game I want on the handheld, which is amazing. I’m playing emulated console games, modern steam games and games from the 90’s early 2000’s that were designed with mouse and keyboard in mind. I wouldn’t want a faster device without the trackpads, as it would cut down on a lot od games i’d like to play.

There’s no way you’re gonna be able to play Age of Empires, or similar games with joysticks, thats for sure.

Always has been, back in the days of multiple CD’s for PC video games, you could get no CD cracks that would allow you to play the game without having to swap discs, etc. Same thing for Xbox, you could load the game directly to rhe hard drive and not have to put the game disc in, etc. Piracy has always been more convenient, which Gabe famously mentioned as a motivation behind what he intended to build with Steam: convenience.