PS Portal vs Switch Lite
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Sony has almost always acted against its customers when it comes to their portables, and of course more recently with their other products as well.
I'm honestly surprised they still even bother with the handheld market given how much they've tried to tank it themselves.
Since I was complaining about Nintendo earlier in the week being anti consumer, well I'll give them credit with this: they are very good about allowing third party peripherals on the Switch. There's loads of controller choices available. Xbox in particular sucks at that.
I can stream Xbox games both from my X1 and from their cloud on my modded Switch too. It works surprisingly well. I suspect there's a Playstation option, but I rid of all my Sony stuff. Not officially supported, but hey it works.
You'd think they'd have learned from the failure of the Sega 32x or the Atari Jaguar CD that "console that requires owning another bigger console" was the ultimate sign of a failed console. Just admitting that your main hardware was a failure and you were trying to bandaid it to adapt to the competition.
PC upgrade. I can live without portable video games and Sony and Nintendo are both fucking cunts
And both of them are far worse than a Steam Deck.
I have a PC. Why on earth would I ever buy a Steam Deck?
Portability.
Saves on the electric bill, too.
Typically it's more cost-effective to play smaller, less intensive games on the Deck than your big gaming rig.
I carry a gaming laptop. Sometimes it complains that plugs don't have enough power, lol
The steam deck seems optional when I have a tablet and a PC already on me.
That's something that often goes unnoticed. I don't even necessarily pay attention to the power bill, I don't like dealing with the heat. I'm in a hot climate and this time of year I most definitely don't want to be running an 800W heater constantly. Despite the fact that it makes the PC build so much simpler because I'm not having to go to autistic levels of detail to get that much heat out of that little space quickly enough. My system runs on less than 300W total and it's find. I don't need to chase a few pixels, because if I'm honest 80% of the time can't tell the difference between 1440p and 4K in gaming, and that's on a 65" 4K OLED.
Don't have a Steam Deck though, because I don't care about handheld at all. I just wish everything PC gaming wasn't "OMG moar heat to dissipate"
Can't count how many times I've absentmindedly used my desktop as an extra heat source. Which almost never works out according to plan though there have been exceptions.
Yeah, for me if I want to play a game with all the pixels in 4K I will play it on the gaming rig. But otherwise, I don't need to play games like Starbound or Prodeus in 4K.
If you're poor enough that that is a concern you don't have the money to waste on a device that is exclusively for gaming to begin with.
Not really. It's just a waste to use a massive RTX GPU in 4K for games that don't need it.
If people don't really care and want to run up the electric bill just for the heck it, then fine. But if you don't have to use massive wattage on games like Super Indie Karts or some 2D platformer, then why do it?
I have a bunch of gadgets some might consider to be useless, but it doesn't mean I throw money away where I don't have to.
Frugal =/= poor.
The 10$ extra a month on the electric bill does not outweigh the cost of a dedicated piece of shit device like a steam deck. You are not "saving money" by buying one of those toys, that's nonsense.
It was actually about three times that amount.
Never said that buying one was about saving money, just that using it for smaller games is more cost effective than using the dedicated gaming rig.
My brother in christ cost effectiveness always includes the initial investment cost.
Yeah, the Switch is "only $200" if we pretend stick drift doesn't exist. Of course, if you were dumb enough to buy a Switch Lite, you're going to have to RMA that shit.
Not to mention that, in the long run, you're likely to spend less overall when you factor in things like sales. Hell, you can get Armored Core 6 right now for 13% off without having to use shady gray market sellers.
How about an apples-to-apples comparison? The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ costs $5 more on the Switch than it does on Steam. The Repentance DLC? Also costs $5. Not only do you pay more, you get a lesser product as you're unable to get access to things like Workshop mods that add characters, items, and good ol' shitposts.
So, if you "only have $200", maybe try and get a few more together and by one hammer that will last 10 years than 5 hammers that will last 2 each?
That certainly held true with the joke of an idea that was the Steam machine.
The Steam Deck is a bit of a different animal though, and the portability is essentially the core draw. And as someone who tried gaming on a bulky laptop years ago, I would've much preferred to have had something like a Steam Deck.
The other thing is that portable devices for gaming really are especially contingent on solid design and engineering, just for the bells and whistles. Portable conditions are much more vulnerable to any range of inconveniences, whether it be the use of a reliable input device in games or a screen ease of use when interfacing with other devices.
You obviously haven't seen GPU and CPU prices lately.
Or you can not be retarded and use Steam Link from a SoC if you want to play your PC collection on your couch.
Nice job missing the point. No, I would spend $50 to play it on my 1440p 200hz monitor. Of course, that's ignoring that the Steam Deck is basically a form factor PC that you can plug into a television or monitor. You know, the Switch can do.
I never said anything about emulation, faggot. Unless Binding of Issac got released for the SNES when I wasn't looking. But sure, since you want to bring it up, emulation on PC is a million times better considering you can do shit like add anti-aliasing to old games, inject better looking textures, and play them at a framerate that doesn't make me want to vomit. Oh, and ROM hacks that allow you to experience old games in new ways.
Yeah, it's called GOING OUTSIDE. Just because you're a fucking loser NEET who spends all day sitting in your own farts doesn't mean everyone else is. Believe it or not, some people have A JOB that sometimes takes them away from their home for longer than a day.
Skill issue.
By the way, nice job ignoring the point about Nintendo charging more for the exact same game for a worse experience.
Can concur. I love those controllers even though I absolutely hate VR. I wish there was a way to use them with non-VR games.
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Well, you are being a little mean.
Wait, is that like a Wii U gamepad?
Sony's version of it.
They tried the 'Playstation Portal' concept with the PSP Go before, using a streaming option. This is a stripped down version of that and not a real competitor to the Wii Mobile.
And let's face it, the Lite version is garbage. Stop pretending. Also, small screens ruin your eyes.
Between these two, I'd buy a steam deck (and I did). And this coming from someone with a 10k dollar gaming PC.
Sony loves their proprietary shit. Remember when they used to make battery powered electronics and cameras requiring special SONY sized AA batteries and SOMY SD cards?
Yeah. New Sony. Same as the old Sony.