With the steam deck release too that's going to eat quite badly into their switch sales regardless of the legions of nintendo fanbois they have as people realise they can get a much wider selection of games at a cheaper price.
Err.... Whut.
You realize that the Switch is already in the top 3 most selling consoles of all time, right?
The Steam Deck will probably not even sell more than the Wii U in its entire lifetime; Valve has never been known for their hardware sales and has not released any actual sales numbers for the Deck, but people are estimating it to only be around 1 million sold or so, compared to the Switch's 120+ million by now. The Switch only needs to sell another 30 million to become the number 1 selling console of all time, overtaking the PS2. I don't even like or own a Switch, but they could literally stop selling Switches tomorrow and Nintendo would still have zero problems. They can survive off its software sales alone at this point.
I've also taken a look at the Deck... it seems like a total mess, I don't know why you would want to use that thing as a desktop PC over a gaming laptop with much better specs, ports, storage, an actual physical keyboard and non-shit touchpad, and a screen larger than 7 inches, or a cheap desktop PC using the same logic.
Which I would argue is probably a massively overinflated number, because so many people had to buy a second one because they were so poorly built.
Everyone in my circle of game-playing friends had to replace their PS2 (and XBox 360, for that matter) within 3 years so that their purchased games and accessories didn't become useless.
In the 20 or so years the PS2 has existed, I've personally had to buy 5 of them because of how faulty they are after a while. Which wouldn't be a problem if the emulation for it wasn't spotty.
Compared to every Nintendo console where emulating them during their lifetime is usually possible and even preferrable in many cases.
That's not my experience at all. It's like we're living in opposite worlds.
5 of them.
I've only ever had one PS2. Still works 21 years later. I just turned it on to check, though on the rare occasion that I actually want to play a PS2 game I use the PCSX2 emulator instead, leading to my second point.
if the emulation for it wasn't spotty.
PCSX2 seems to be working fine for anyone with a decent enough computer.
Killzone (2004), Cold Winter (2005), Black (2006), Dark Cloud, Seek and Destroy, The Seed: Warzone and a heap of other games that I've tried work perfectly. Encountered no problems whatsoever. I don't even think that much messing around with the emulator options needs to be done. Connect the PS4 DualShock to the PC via USB and these games function just as they would on the PS2 except with a much higher resolution. I haven't found any problems with the ePSXe emulator for PS1 either.
The only PS2 game that I can think of that emulates poorly is Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006). And even that game doesn't seem to have performance or stability problems, only annoying vertical coloured bars down the screen.
I don't know what to tell you mate, I've had three fat boys and two skinnys and all of them have had their disc drive fail. Which is a common issue with them to the point where its one of the first repair guides you can find, though granted I've likely been quite unlucky to have that many.
And the PS2 emulator is the only one I've ever had problems with, as I've got most other emulators running just fine. Which, again, based on discussions I've had over many years seems to not be just a me issue though I see plenty of people running it just fine. Which is why I went with "spotty" instead of nonfunctional.
Thankfully a large portion of PS2 games ended up ported or remastered on the PS3 and that emulator works no issue, so they are still accessible. Except for GoW3 which will melt your PC.
Err.... Whut.
You realize that the Switch is already in the top 3 most selling consoles of all time, right?
The Steam Deck will probably not even sell more than the Wii U in its entire lifetime; Valve has never been known for their hardware sales and has not released any actual sales numbers for the Deck, but people are estimating it to only be around 1 million sold or so, compared to the Switch's 120+ million by now. The Switch only needs to sell another 30 million to become the number 1 selling console of all time, overtaking the PS2. I don't even like or own a Switch, but they could literally stop selling Switches tomorrow and Nintendo would still have zero problems. They can survive off its software sales alone at this point.
I've also taken a look at the Deck... it seems like a total mess, I don't know why you would want to use that thing as a desktop PC over a gaming laptop with much better specs, ports, storage, an actual physical keyboard and non-shit touchpad, and a screen larger than 7 inches, or a cheap desktop PC using the same logic.
Which I would argue is probably a massively overinflated number, because so many people had to buy a second one because they were so poorly built.
Everyone in my circle of game-playing friends had to replace their PS2 (and XBox 360, for that matter) within 3 years so that their purchased games and accessories didn't become useless.
In the 20 or so years the PS2 has existed, I've personally had to buy 5 of them because of how faulty they are after a while. Which wouldn't be a problem if the emulation for it wasn't spotty.
Compared to every Nintendo console where emulating them during their lifetime is usually possible and even preferrable in many cases.
That's not my experience at all. It's like we're living in opposite worlds.
I've only ever had one PS2. Still works 21 years later. I just turned it on to check, though on the rare occasion that I actually want to play a PS2 game I use the PCSX2 emulator instead, leading to my second point.
PCSX2 seems to be working fine for anyone with a decent enough computer.
Killzone (2004), Cold Winter (2005), Black (2006), Dark Cloud, Seek and Destroy, The Seed: Warzone and a heap of other games that I've tried work perfectly. Encountered no problems whatsoever. I don't even think that much messing around with the emulator options needs to be done. Connect the PS4 DualShock to the PC via USB and these games function just as they would on the PS2 except with a much higher resolution. I haven't found any problems with the ePSXe emulator for PS1 either.
The only PS2 game that I can think of that emulates poorly is Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006). And even that game doesn't seem to have performance or stability problems, only annoying vertical coloured bars down the screen.
I don't know what to tell you mate, I've had three fat boys and two skinnys and all of them have had their disc drive fail. Which is a common issue with them to the point where its one of the first repair guides you can find, though granted I've likely been quite unlucky to have that many.
And the PS2 emulator is the only one I've ever had problems with, as I've got most other emulators running just fine. Which, again, based on discussions I've had over many years seems to not be just a me issue though I see plenty of people running it just fine. Which is why I went with "spotty" instead of nonfunctional.
Thankfully a large portion of PS2 games ended up ported or remastered on the PS3 and that emulator works no issue, so they are still accessible. Except for GoW3 which will melt your PC.