You don't live in Australia do you
All our games cost $100AUD even on steam
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Not a Nintendo fanboy. But their own IP games are truly fun. That alone is enough incentive to buy the switch
To emulate* on my desktop 😌
This.
Yeah, this is the only reason I have a Switch. I'm a sucker for their first party games, and I will probably buy a Switch 2 for Mario Odyssey 2 alone.
My wife wanted a switch for her birthday since my son is getting older and wants to spend more time playing games. So we waited on the Switch 2 Direct announcement and it was clearly just a cash grab. Even the hardware demo "game" is a digital purchase. The Chat button only works with a subscription. €90,- for a Mario Kart game and expensive upgrades for games you already own.
So Steamdeck it is, the OLED model is a bit pricey, but i've only been hearing good things. And it wil run emulators which is an added boon.
10 year old mario kart 8 is like 70 bucks or somethingwith dlc. They have lost their mind and people still pay for it.
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The Steam Deck can run Biebian and Hannah Montana Linux fairly easily. That's not really a selling point just another thing Nintendo isn't bringing to the table.
I impulse bought a deluxe Need for Speed game a few weeks ago for $6.50. I've already played it 65 hours. I don't want to jump into the math of it but I reckon I would need to enjoy Mario Kart for much greater than 650 hours before I would get the same hours per dollar value NfS: Heat has brought me thanks to a Steam sale. And Mario Kart could never catch up in miles per hour.
Just a heads up you'll get to learn how to navigate Linux if you change your mind on the starter car. The only way I could start a new save file was by manually deleting the old one in the file system. It was a little frustrating but served as a good reminder that it is a handheld computer not just an outlet for gaming.
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The funny part is steam has the most exclusives of em all.
It also has integrated microphone and you can also talk to your friends while playing 🤣
Not allowing strangers to talk to my kid is absolutely a Switch selling point.
Sooo this is how I learn that my Steam Deck has a built in microphone.
I'm not very perceptive and thought the little notch at the top of the screen was nothing.
If you're not being sarcastic, check out "Desk Job" on Steam. It's a free small game which shows all SD functionality.
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And gamecube games... and wii games and n64 games and ps2 games..
The pricing of this is really going to fuck them.
BotW should be like $10 by now. The fucking DLC for it still costs twice that.
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You can also install a Switch emulator and just keep it even if Nintendo cease&decists again.
Ah yes, the Deck vs. Switch debate. One offers performance and affordability, the other offers nostalgia at premium prices. Choose your fighter: the powerhouse or the Pokémon tax.
Considering the Steam Deck can run just about every console game ever made up to PS2 gen (and a good amount made after), I'd say they have the Switch 2 beat on nostalgia.
I play Steel Panthers on my steam deck, a DOS game from the 90s
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I don't know what Nintendo was thinking by doing the Nintendo tax bullshit harder than ever during a time when Americans are facing such heavy financial burdens
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Sadly the trend of $80 for a digital copy of games will be copied by every major AAA studio in the following years if Nintendo succeed. The switch 1 games are not pricer than others at launch, they just never for whatever fucking reason become cheaper.
And then AAA studios will see their games stay on digital shelves indefinitely and pirating skyrocket and they'll learn that they're not nintendo and trying to be will bankrupt them.
now we know why the crackdown on switch emulators.
Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don't have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.
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