Dude, the cheapest Steam Deck is 50 bucks more expensive than the Switch, isn't available in major retailers, and doesn't have the IPs people buy Nintendo consoles for. Don't EmUlAtIoN at me either, most people don't want to bother emulating games.
The Switch and the Steam Deck aren't really competing for the same market, the Steam Deck isn't the Nintendo killer. If Nintendo survived the Wii U they can survive the Steam Deck, an enthusiast product that doesn't appeal to the casual market that Nintendo caters to.
Fair points lol I guess I'm looking at the nintendo switch as more expensive in my defence because of the games you're required to buy in order to even use it.
That's an absurd argument. AAA games are 70 bucks on steam and on switch, and indies are generally the same price. Steam might have better sales and a wider selection of indies, but outside of sales the games are priced the same.
That new Tony Hawk game is the same price on Switch, Xbox, Playstation and Steam. The Steam deck also can't play pirated games without some insane fenagling if at all so the "free" aspect of PC gaming isn't really there.
Proton does not support all games ( I often like playing older ones that don't even run on Proton as of yet ) and having to add exe programs to steam just to be able to run it is just silly.
I find SteamOS to be a far superior platform than Windows.
I was shocked at how intuitive, fast, and easy it is to use (especially in Desktop Mode).
I WISH Windows was that simple to use. Any device driver, program, or utility I need, you just type it in the search bar and it pulls up all the available apps. You don't need a ridiculous Windows account, or a Windows Store account, or an Xbox Live account, or any of that other annoying stuff that you need to hop through to get apps to work right on Windows 10/11.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of the SteamOS because for my next gaming rig I would have that in place over Windows. Plus, I love how easy it is to navigate the SteamOS for games/apps using a controller for the tabs.
Dude, the cheapest Steam Deck is 50 bucks more expensive than the Switch, isn't available in major retailers, and doesn't have the IPs people buy Nintendo consoles for. Don't EmUlAtIoN at me either, most people don't want to bother emulating games.
The Switch and the Steam Deck aren't really competing for the same market, the Steam Deck isn't the Nintendo killer. If Nintendo survived the Wii U they can survive the Steam Deck, an enthusiast product that doesn't appeal to the casual market that Nintendo caters to.
Fair points lol I guess I'm looking at the nintendo switch as more expensive in my defence because of the games you're required to buy in order to even use it.
That's an absurd argument. AAA games are 70 bucks on steam and on switch, and indies are generally the same price. Steam might have better sales and a wider selection of indies, but outside of sales the games are priced the same.
That new Tony Hawk game is the same price on Switch, Xbox, Playstation and Steam. The Steam deck also can't play pirated games without some insane fenagling if at all so the "free" aspect of PC gaming isn't really there.
Insane fenagling?
wow that was hard
Proton does not support all games ( I often like playing older ones that don't even run on Proton as of yet ) and having to add exe programs to steam just to be able to run it is just silly.
That's not how the steam deck works.
Er... you realize that it uses SteamOS, and not Windows, right?
This is why you install windows instead of relying on their built in SteamOS, also I don't buy AAA games anymore lol.
Does windows run worth a damn on it? You can always switch over to the Linux distro
I find SteamOS to be a far superior platform than Windows.
I was shocked at how intuitive, fast, and easy it is to use (especially in Desktop Mode).
I WISH Windows was that simple to use. Any device driver, program, or utility I need, you just type it in the search bar and it pulls up all the available apps. You don't need a ridiculous Windows account, or a Windows Store account, or an Xbox Live account, or any of that other annoying stuff that you need to hop through to get apps to work right on Windows 10/11.
I wish Valve made a desktop version of the SteamOS because for my next gaming rig I would have that in place over Windows. Plus, I love how easy it is to navigate the SteamOS for games/apps using a controller for the tabs.