I think your expectations are a bit off. 30FPS isn’t the norm. 30 FPS is the minimum playable framerate, for about 95% of games. 40FPS is usually the agreed upon target rate for the deck, as 40fps/40hz screen actually plays quite well.

60 and above is just amazing.

But like, it’s a handheld dude. It uses 25w total MAX. That’s less than most gaming laptop’s gpu alone. For what it does the steam deck is actually pretty insane, performance wise.

I bought 6 I believe. Hi-Fi Rush, battlebit remastered, both Ori games, vampire survivors, and brotato.

I’ve already played a little bit of them all, but plan on playing a lot more of a couple of them! Not sure if I like brotato or vampire survivors better yet, but I do plan on finishing the ori games as well as Hi-Fi Rush!

I stream from my 3080 desktop that’s in the other room to my steam deck all the time. Great experience for most games. I also stream it in docked mode hooked up to my 55" OLED tv. That’s how my wife and I play BG3 together. Works great!