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Steamdeck or.... (self.games)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by potate to c/[email protected]

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Looking for some advice. My Switch Lite is approaching the end of its life and given that a Switch 2 is basically the same price as an OLED Steamdeck I was thinking it might be a good time to jump back to PC gaming.

I'm not much of a gamer. I got the Switch Lite because of portability and the ability to wake it up, play for ten minutes and then toss it back in my bag. My only beefs with the Switch ecosystem is that you can't download DLC - for Cities Skylines I have the bare game on Switch but a pile of DLC on my laptop for example.

So - would going with a Steamdeck make sense? Any gotchas I should know about? Is there a better option?

Thanks all!

**edit: y'all rock. I'm ordering an OLED Steamdeck

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

ALL the gaming console companies are, INCLUDING steam once gaben dies. Even currently you dont actually own your games on steam like you would a physical copy, you have to download a crack to play your steam games without steam.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

You are right. Unless the world starts to enshrine digital ownership laws very, very soon, things will get bad. They already are bad, but they could be, and will be, far worse in the not-to-distant future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I don't see Sony shutting down ShadPS4 despite the fact that PS4 games are still released

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

True, but Steam deck lets you boot into the Linux desktop environment of the os and you can do whatever you want with it. I have installed games and emulators outside of steam on mine pretty easily.

You could probably even put a different Linux OS on it entirely if you wanted to.

That control over the platform was the biggest selling point for me. More control even than the windows based handhelds.