"Avowed Hates Men"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFZvRxIffA
To no one's surprise, the game is nothing but insufferable girl bosses, thinly veiled anti-whiteness, and men who are either evil, corrupt, incompetent, cowardly, or just literally homosexual. It's a repeat of Outer Worlds, which shouldn't come as a shock to anyone because the devs are still the exact same leftist feminist dipshits who treat their game dev jobs as merely another opportunity for rank activism.
Outside of the culture war content, everything else is also terrible. The UI is garbage. The game is full of bugs and jank. The combat looks soft and boring. The game's structure is at least 15 years outdated. The story is beyond cliche. Nothing about this woke turd looks good.
An interesting phenomenon is the "console exclusive" bump we always see from such games. There are people out there praising this game for no other reason than Playstation gamers can't play it (right now). Same shit happened with Starfield, not to mention every Sony exclusive ever. These games always have lower scores and player reviews on PC because PC gamers are not ego-invested the same way that console fanboys have always been.
The point made was "they have their uses" which I have demonstrated multiple times they do. Not that they are the objective better option in all forms.
Every single Switch game works on the Switch. Not every game is Steamdeck Compatible. So its lost on that level of comparison.
And your entire dismissal only works if you only play modern games exclusively, because otherwise that entire history of consoles and their uses is still just as valid now as ever. I literally plugged in my PS2 last month to play a game on it and it took as much time as it did just to find it to get it operational.
I'm living right now explaining how they got a foothold and how that foothold still exists, while the most modern consoles (ones that even the company in charge considers failed) are irrelevant because of how poorly they aped PC's worst traits.
Traits you've just ignored entirely each time they were laid out.
This is such a disingenuous comparison, considering the powerhouse the Steamdeck is for emulation. It's not lost on me that you've limited the Switch to Switch games, but the criteria for a Steamdeck is "every game". We want to talk about available library between the two, and the Steamdeck is going to win hands down. Which is why you didn't bring these devices up. You had to rely on shitting on gaming laptops instead because it's an easier target.
In your other response, you mentioned that PS2 emulation isn't the best, but it's in the very high 90s in terms of compatibility for the entire library with very few titles it can't run. It hasn't been flaky for nearly a decade at this point. Even PS3 emulation has gotten pretty solid these days that even the Steamdeck can adequately run some PS3 titles at 60fps. You're using the historical advantages of consoles to say they still have these advantages now, and they simply don't.
The only points you have are tech purist ones, which is entirely enthusiast level stuff these days. At that point, you should be comparing enthusiast level computer tech too. But you're not.
You're stuck in the mid 2010s, while technology and software has advanced since then. The only one ignoring anything is you, ignoring these advances.
Well no one expects a Switch to play Playstation games, but people do expect the Steamdeck to play Steam games. Which it cannot do for every game on Steam (that better for you?), let alone every PC game. Which isn't an indictment against it, its a great technology and improving rapidly for all of our benefit.
But you are moving goalposts and applying metrics around randomly when it benefits your position.
Ironic, considering you handwaved a major issue off as "just have every iteration of old PC available to you like I do."
And you are comparing functionality of the emulator itself while ignoring individual games and their functionality on the emulator is not a perfect overlap. I tried to play one of my favorite games, Condemned 2, on RPCS3 just a few months ago and its an unplayable graphical nightmare of colors and flickering. This issue has been fixed but it took close to 6 years to do so and involves jumping through githubs to find said solution, and its still not fully fixed. Maybe if I was more tech savvy I could figure it out through adjusting a bunch of settings and trial/error, but ironically for your accusation I lack those skills and patience.
I did not feel like doing that, so I stopped being lazy and just plugged in my old Xbox and played it within moments.
That isn't historical, that happened a few months ago and the console accomplished the main benefit I keep throwing at you. Simplicity. It came out the box, it worked, it was done. No troubleshooting, no software compatibility, it just did.
That's all I've ever really said. And not an objective superiority at all times but "it has its uses" which was the entire topic. And none of those uses have stopped, I can (and did) go to my local secondhand store a few months prior and buy a console and a bunch of games and its still works just the same as it always did, sans an extra adapter for HDMI.
Can't do that much with PC though, because that was the first platform to treat Physical media as disposable and move away from it, after years of DRM restrictions trying to stop reusing the games anyway. But I'm sure that's actually consoles fault somehow.
It seems you have tied too much of your ego to being PCMR to acknowledge that consoles have use even if still inferior in most ways. I still play most of my games on PC and emulate a large amount of my games, so clearly I'm not ignoring how the field is currently.