Or just take the $400 - $649 you'd spend on a Steam Deck and just get upgrade your PC?

You obviously haven't seen GPU and CPU prices lately.

"But I'm willing to have a subpar experience of playing PC games on a phablet screen if it means I can do it from the couch!" Maybe try to get a few more together and get a second PC.

Or you can not be retarded and use Steam Link from a SoC if you want to play your PC collection on your couch.

Seriously. You would spend $50 to play AC6 on a 7" screen?

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.

"But it can emulate all sorts of retro ga-" It's 2023. Anything can.

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.

If you've got a real use case, good for you I guess.

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.

But everything in question is too big to be a handheld and too shit to be a main platform.

Skill issue.

By the way, nice job ignoring the point about Nintendo charging more for the exact same game for a worse experience.