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.
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.
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.
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
That's not how the steam deck works.
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.