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‘If it’s the only place to play Mario, you buy it’: Former PlayStation boss reacts to $80 Nintendo games
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That was the prevailing theory. Why else go after emulators for a dying system?
Because being able to play your existing switch games with better performance is a big part of their sales pitch for this, but people were already starting to do that with the Steam Deck. At that point the comparison for the devices would look like:
Steam Deck: Cheaper, more ergonomic, can play more games, games cost less, games aren't locked to the console, no charge for better performance if you upgrade to new hardware, can play any game from consoles up to some ps3 through emulation
Nintendo: Better battery life, 120Hz HDR screen, has a new Mario Kart and Donkey Kong game
In every other way it would lose the comparison.
With the emulator crackdown, people don't perceive it that way, because they don't think of emulation as an option for the switch. (I mean, some do, but even Retro Games Corps isn't talking about that possibility anymore because of the strikes against his YouTube channel; they've greatly reduced the visibility of that as an option.)
For my part, I'm leaning towards sticking Moonlight on my existing Switch and just streaming from my desktop. It's not elegant, but you can't beat the price.
up to a lot of Switch, you mean.
That also! My sense is that for the switch it's basically only limited by emulator compatibility, but for ps3 and xbox one it's partially limited by the available cpu and gpu power. I may be mistaken about that though, I don't own a Deck and haven't tested this stuff myself.
It's been a couple years since I tried PS3 and Xbox 360 emulation, but when I did it on PC was the compatibility of the emulator rather than processing power that caused most game to not be playable. It ran Katamari Forever really well, so I'm hoping I can get it running on the Steam Deck, too!
Definitely worth a try!