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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Fuck Nintendo. Vote with your wallets and don't buy a Switch 2, get a Steam Deck or other similar portable gaming handheld.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I really want to grab one of the new handhelds, seem so nice, I feel guilty almost playing games on my pc, when I could be using it for other stuff, playing on consoles fine so it might be time to transition to a linux handheld for the ocassional pc games.

(Like it could be rendering for my other hobby with 3d, instead of the gpu going to games)

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Switch 2?

More Like "Switch to Steamdeck" ( ☞˙ワ˙)☞

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Steam deck 2 is just around the corner

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hear it's launching with HL3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

Forget that, it'll have TF3.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Pure speculation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Deck 2 probably won't come out before the next generation of chips at least

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What ?! Already a power boost / gen-gap to fill?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

No. They have no proof. We know Valve's working on something but they always are and nobody knows what it is

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damnit... And I just got a steam deck on Monday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

(You're good, steam deck 2 soon is very unlikely)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I hope so, I don’t even really need much more power, but I’ll be a day one buyer to support the platform.

I’ll hand the steamdeck 1 down to my wife for stardew, if she wants it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I'm going to buy a switch two, which they usually sell the hardware for close to cost. Then I'm gonna leave it in the box and wait until a mod chip comes out that lets me play every game for free.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Just get an emulator for the steam deck

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It's cheap becuaus it's as powerful as an old phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously there will always be new cool games, but also, there's enough out there already (hell even just in my Steam library alone) to enjoy new content for the rest of several lifetimes. I don't need Nintendo at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't either, but Switch is incredibly nice as a family console. Nintendo has a ton of games my kids like, we can bring it on road trips and they can switch off or play together, etc.

So I have both. Most of my personal playtime is on my Steam Deck, my playtime with my kids is mostly on my Switch, with a fair amount on my PC.

Screw Nintendo's legal dept, but they make a good product for families with young kids. Even my 4yo can figure out games like Kirby and Smash Bros.