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.
Considering the Steam Deck can run just about every console game ever made up to PS2 gen (and a good amount made after), I'd say they have the Switch 2 beat on nostalgia.
Yeah but not the memberberries kind!
Nintendo's been hitting the memberberries for so long that 20 year old games have memberberry moments in them.
rather give money to a Japanese company than an american one
Japanese corporations are known for being unethical too to completely fair.
Correction: Black Companies in Japan are unethical
Black companies being the term for what you and I know as evil companies like amazon for example
This is like me saying
"European corporations are known for being unethical too to completely fair." (Was going to use america in this example but that countries gone down the shitter) because some employers are unethical.
I hate how people online have some sort of hate boner for Japan where they take some small issue and say the entirety of Japan is like that.
I couldn't really find the right wording. That was my bad.
Switch is versatile, can be played in more than one way
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.
I can install Linux on a Switch. Hell, you can emulate Switch games on a Switch.
Go to desktop mode is not a "casual" feature at all. They barely know how to set the wifi connection, let alone manage a Linux environment...
Not a Nintendo fanboy. But their own IP games are truly fun. That alone is enough incentive to buy the switch
My sole motivation for ever buying a Nintendo product would be for Pokémon.
I'm not saying you should stop, but I am saying people like you are the reason pokemon is so bad these days.
Seriously, a real fan needs to have standards, otherwise you're just a simp. Scarlet and Violet should have been the final straw - though sword and shield should have been better too...
I am still not going to buy one. Just that it's the only reason I can think to get one
Everyone knows what Steam does better, but there are a few things I wish they'd improve :
Not to mention that the build quality of the Deck is miles ahead of the shitty Switch.
There are freaking expensive games on Steam just as there will be cheap indie games on the Switch 2, the meme is pretty stupid.
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