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Ah yes, the Deck vs. Switch debate. One offers performance and affordability, the other offers nostalgia at premium prices. Choose your fighter: the powerhouse or the Pokémon tax.
Palworld for the win.
Haha right? Palworld really said ‘what if Pokémon had guns and capitalism’ and somehow made it work
You can emulate almost any Nintendo game from before 2016 on a steamdeck. Just got to wait a few more years for the switch emulators to get efficient enough to run well on the steam deck!
I still have my GBC with pokemon yellow and a flash cart with (almost, missing the new ones) every GB and GBC rom in existence on it that supports save states, and can emulate many switch games on the deck iirc if I were somehow nostalgic for those, and in fact can emulate basically any nintendo game from history I may be nostalgic for better than the switch, among other games nintendo didn’t make.
Which one is the real nostalgia machine? (Hint: It’s the Gameboy Color lol)
“Powerhouse”
We already know that the steamdeck plays switch games better than the switch. It would be hilarious if it also plays switch2 games better than the switch2.
Switch 2 proceeds to outsell the deck by a factor of 50
Steam is clearly playing the long game with Steam Deck and Steam OS, they’re basically trying to slowly normalize portable gaming pcs. If they achieve this Nintendo will not be just facing competition from Steam Deck but from multiple devices from the likes of Asus, Lenovo, Dell (Alienware).
Even PS Portal sales is not that far from Deck. You know, the handheld that people said won’t sell
Haha. Not in the US, thank you Mr. Trump very much.
If you want to (legally) play Nintendo games, obviously buy a Switch 2. You don’t have any other option. If Nintendo games aren’t that important to you, and/or if you already have a large Steam library, a Steam Deck is a great option.
Personally, I love my Steam Deck, but I’m looking forward to a Steam Deck 2, or maybe a third party handheld, running SteamOS, that has a nice, big, 1080p screen, better controls, and better battery life. More power would be nice, but not if it comes with a louder fan and poor battery life. Honestly, I’d even be ok if the device was focused on local streaming, from my PC.
Dude, I know you didn’t ask me but I 100% agree with your last part. I bought the deck. Loved it, still do. Then I bought an ally. I said, dang, game over deck, but now all I do with my ally is stream things from my gaming PC locally. Id love if the deck had vrr and 120hz/1080p screen but everything else was the same. I’d sell all of my other systems for that and exclusively just play PC games.
Yeah, as long as I can get low enough latency that I don’t have to worry about input lag, I prefer having my PC do the heavy lifting. The games look much, much better, but the battery on the handheld lasts much longer. I am really hoping that someone will release a great streaming handheld. When that happens, I will finally replace my Steam Deck.
LMAO Nintendo buyers are not even part of this conversation. Their community is basically tied with the loyalty they have provided for years and now it’s time to cash it in
How well does Dolphin run on the SteamDeck?
Runs great, been playing though the Metroid Pimes series with PrimeHacks. Solid 60fps
Ugh you’ve just given me a new Deck project!
There are plenty of complaints you could levy but $90 minimum is obviously a fucking lie. And don’t come at me with 1-2 examples. We all know that’s bullshit.
Balatro on mobile is $10 why would you need anything else
Based
So, hypothetically, if a friend of mine wanted to play some switch games on his/her steam deck, where would be the best place to… aquire said games? Again, purely hypothetical.
Was $90 the minimum? I thought it was the maximum.
$90 for physical, $80 for digital. You get to save $10 so Nintendo can later take it off their marketplace, and remove your access to the game.
You get to save $10 so Nintendo can later take it off their marketplace, and remove your access to the game.
The shitty part is that I don’t think physical games are even exempt from that problem. Excluding whichever Switch 2 games are use the “key card” option versus “memory card” (key card basically just being a transferrable download code), we see games like Tears of the Kingdom being nearly unplayable without the day 1 patch. Or other games like Splatoon 3 that simply don’t include the full game on the cart and prompt you to download launch-day content after booting it up.
Neither of these games will be very playable even with physical cards once the Switch eShop servers go down for good.
We can only hope the current standard of backwards compatibility lasts indefinitely so all digital stores can basically be like Steam going forward and keep their content available across all future generations. But even that is a stretch when who even knows what the state of CPU architecture will look like in 15-20 years.
We don’t know tariff cost yet
Maximum is only limited by greed of corporations.
It’s neither. They have announced two game prices so far. One was $80 the other was $70. I’m of the opinion that they are going to start implementing a kind of tiered pricing, but that’s just a shot in the dark.
You can also install a Switch emulator and just keep it even if Nintendo cease&decists again.
Switch 2 also added a new button just to advertise their subscription, turns out that C button stands for “CASH PLEASE UwU”
Only on extremely rare occasions have I spent more than £40 on a game for my Steam Deck
