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You're overestimating Nintendo. And if you were an honest fan, you wouldn't be lie to yourself about Nintendo's hardware aspirations. The next Switch will be a minor jump, likely smaller than PS4-Pro. I know this is because Nintendo simply has no interest in joining regular AAA budgets. But you could defensibly say it's because they prioritize low/no fan noise, long battery life, kid-friendly pricing, smaller form factor, etc. There's no way Nintendo is going to make a less portable, chunkier system than Valve has done, and that's exactly what it would take to outperform the Deck.

big difference: Deck has a d-pad.

Like it or not, x86 shrinking down to handheld puts a ton of pressure on Nintendo. Of course they can sell Disnified mascots brands to their masochistic fanbase, but the whole layer of 3rd party indies and middle-tier 3d game are going to be permanently portable in a variety of hardware options, not just Valve's. In general, Steam gets these games first, cheapest, and is the best platform for them. It's not so much whether the Steam Deck will "succeed" or not. The form factor existing takes away a major reason to buy Nintendo's shit. People who mostly play Rocket League or Cuphead for example

The only good platforms

When you proudly claimed Nintendogs as AAA.

😂 Why do you do this to yourself? Nintendo's blockbuster, "AAA" games are technically inferior to mid-shelf indies like RIME or Little Nightmares. They don't want to level up to the big leagues because they know children will nag their parents to pay $60 for Mario Kart from 2014.

Even if Nintendo announced their next hardware tomorrow we know it wouldn't be in the same generation as Steam Deck. Nintendo isn't ready to make games at that level yet. They're taking Pokemon back to the N64 era, and they haven't made a game that couldn't run equally well on Xbox 360.

Approximately 100% of those Google searches were "can Nintendo switch play elden ring?". (Answer: 🤣🤣)

Yea no shit. Like 100 people have a Steam Deck right now. What's embarrassing is Nintendo is too scared their customers will find out Steam Deck plays Nintendo games better than their own hardware. They have to be copyright trolls. Pretty cucked move, couldn't be me.

Actually *everyone* is talking about it and Nintendo is busy doing copyright takedowns because they're terrified of the competition outclassing their shit.

Switch wouldn't be what it is if Nintendo knew how online gaming works.

I don't sound like that, and the OG Steam Deck will still be playing new games after the Switch's successor is dead.

Anything but Nintendo tbh. PlayStation and Steam are ahead of the game.

Your peasant mentality doesn't mean anything. I don't play indie developer revenue, I play games. Games come out first, better and cheaper on Steam. Also Switch is a POS. The turd doesn't even have analog triggers ffs. Stop living in the past, grow up.

These fucking slobs literally argued for decades that they don't want to play console games on the go.

I already buy 2d games on Steam. If I played on Switch, I'd have to wait longer, pay more money and get a worse experience than the Deck provides. Even if Switch's hardware wasn't 3 generations behind the Deck, Switch doesn't even have a fucking D-pad. Not sure what you mean by "meant" when it literally plays Elden Ring. I guess Sheep look at hardware specs and think "not meant for me".

You still got 5 months to wait for Switch to not actually play Dying Light 2 on any settings.

Steam Deck is made for successful adults with interesting lives. That's why SW sheep can't understand the appeal.

Steam Deck is gonna be a viable way to play current (next) gen games basically the whole way. The hardware is a feature match with PS5/XBX with proportional downscaling to the 720p res. Some day we will be playing the next God of War on Deck. MS establishing the low priced Series S also means developers will have to scale their tech more than in previous generations. Even plugged into a TV/monitor, the FidelityFX upscaling should be decent. This is a great way for new people to start building a PC library.

Linux good. Fedora 34 is a very good Linux Desktop with some brand new tech inside. Since SteamOS 3 is switching from Debian to Arch, I thought I'd give that a shot on my gaming PC.

I will definitely play this on Steam Deck. When you think about this vs a remake of Advanced Wars, it just makes you proud not to be a Sheep.

It's funny during the whole PSP and Vita period of competition Sheep insisted that handheld games and console games are different. Now they're thrilled to be able to play terrible versions of Witcher 3 and Doom. Jerry's still trying to figure out how online gaming works. 🤡

I agree with you there is no guarantee devs would support it, but they can't support it if Valve doesn't provide for it. I disagree that the Deck wont be successful. I think these handheld PCs will be a new norm. Alienware already announced one and other less known OEMs have them as well. Valve's hardware might not even be the best, but the form factor running SteamOS will be viable.

When software is built, there is a "pipeline" of steps that go from error checking, compiling, testing, etc through to the final image. Packing up all the assets is part of that pipeline. Adding a step to compress and downscale media files is a lot less work than any kind of platform-specific code changes.

One major thing Valve needs to add is a low-storage download option for Steam. There's no reason why a 720p device needs the full 80GB+ install of Death Stranding with 4k-ready assets. Devs can build a version with downscaled assets pretty easily for a smaller install.