The pricing of this is really going to fuck them.
BotW should be like $10 by now. The fucking DLC for it still costs twice that.
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I love my Steam Deck but it doesn't have Mario Kart or even anything like it
lol there are so many racing as well as cart games, and the fact you can run literally any Nintendo game on PC
None of them really compare, and I'm not really interested in setting up emulation.
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It does if you run Dolphin.
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I already made a joke similar to this in another thread in another community, but... SteamOS does! What Windon't.
This take is in bad faith, because most people that are going to buy a switch 2 already have a switch and you can play older games on it and it's only 10$ to upgrade if there is a new edition for a game you have. And it's true that Nintendo doesn't really discount older games but you can buy them used for cheap.
only 10$ to upgrade
a game you have.
Jeez, what a good deal, so I didn't own shit to begin with and now I have to pay 10 bucks to get "an upgrade" that I won't own either.
We won't own shit and we will be happily serving our overlords, right?
To be honest, the majority of people buying a Switch 2 is gonna be parents with children, and nostalgia suckers.
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Switch is versatile, can be played in more than one way
The PSP was launched in 2004, could be connected to your TV and even could be used to play on the PS3, so yeah is as versatile as a touch screen PSP.
Hold my beer while I connect multiple displays to the steam deck, a keyboard & mouse, xbox & playstation controllers and wii motes.
Clearly you don't know much about the steam deck if you think the switch is more versatile
For a casual user? Definitely he Switch wins here.
If you have experience in Linux it opens up a lot more possibilities on the Steam Deck, but likewise, you can technically do that on a Switch too.
What are you talking about? You can click "go to desktop mode" on your steam deck and it will bring you to a desktop.... like a normal computer...
You can't do that on a Switch, or if you can you have to be an expert DIYer.
Don't insult "casual" users by suggesting an optional desktop view where you can use your Steam Deck like a normal computer is "toooo much for the casual user". Not it isn't. The desktop view lets you use any web browser you want, lots of people need to use web browsers, that is only one example of why a "casual" user might use desktop mode on the Steam Deck.
No you way off the mark here, and so is Nintendo.
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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.
"Powerhouse"
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!
Palworld for the win.
Haha right? Palworld really said 'what if Pokémon had guns and capitalism' and somehow made it work
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Switch 2 proceeds to outsell the deck by a factor of 50
Haha. Not in the US, thank you Mr. Trump very much.
Even PS Portal sales is not that far from Deck. You know, the handheld that people said won't sell
Absolutely. Nintendo has huge fanbase with most of them not caring about Nintendo ripping them off and Nintendo has some of the most highly regarded and iconic gaming IPs in the world and Nintendo has insane marketing budget behind the Switch 2 and the switch doubles as a home console.
I love the Deck but it's not going to outsell the Switch and I think Valve isn't interested in pulling people away from the Switch. Valve made the Deck primarily for Steam users and that's who they're targeting.
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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).
I can't talk to my friends while I play my deck? News to me
No, you're not allowed. You need to pay special Talking To Friends license
Pretty sure you can.
I mean it's a Linux computer. So you could prob just call your friends on discord.
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