Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well… the switch2 just came out - what did they expect?
Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well… the switch2 just came out - what did they expect?
Rooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Would still get a 1k steamdeck over a 600€ still overpriced switch 2 with 80€ rereleased crap. With vulnerabilities found in the first week of launch.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
These are completely different devices for different use cases for different audiences with wildly different tastes. Nintendo hasn’t been in the “core” gaming space since before the Wii.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They’re sure pricing themselves to be in the “core” gaming space now.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
You can spend more on mobile game mtx than a full triple A experience including the console and in fact most people do which is why the “core” is an ever shrinking slice of the pie that to GenA probably doesn’t even make any sense.
The price doesn’t really matter, my point is that you’re not buying a Nintendo switch to play GTA 6 and you’re not buying a steam deck to play Warioware Inc…
pycorax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m not sure if the price matters that much to the demographic. Their main target audience isn’t gonna consider a handheld gaming PC to begin with.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A handheld PC isn’t cheaper to buy, and most console gamers aren’t buying a ton of games either (like PC gamers do), so the total cost of ownership for a switch 2 probably still stays under the total cost of ownership for a handheld PC.
Rooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
and lost it after the Wii U.
Switch was the last in the line of “inovation” and now they go for the cash grab.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
As much as I don’t enjoy Nintendo games and consoles anymore, I don’t think you can blame them for not creating new experiences.
Even the Switch 2 is creating a new way to play with its controls.
You can’t really say this about the Playstation 5 (which I own) or the Series X.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
As if any other OS has no vulnerabilities?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Especially considering what’s classified as a vulnerability.
The vulnerability on the switch let’s you execute unsigned code in user space, no kernel access or even hardware acceleration.
On the steam deck (like on any PC) that’s nit called a vulnerability but “running a program”. It’s literally the main use case.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
And on Switch, it’s forbidden typically. Which is part of why people advocate for the Steam Deck instead. From Nintendo’s perspective, this very much is a vulnerability. It’s just not leading to custom firmware or ROM dumps from what I understand, so it’s not even close to the most significant vulnerability.
Rooki@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean its so closed off it should be.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I really want to root for Nintendo but they make it hard.
Opening up my steam library from a console was such a big WTF moment and then being able to suspend games was so mind-blowing.
It’s still not that beefy for triple-A but I’m considering getting GeForce Now running on it.
Rooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If i am honest i dont have any games that DONT run on. It can run cyberpunk, baldurs gate, a lot other AAA / Indie games.
If it doesnt run, the devs did something SPECIAL to f*ck steamdeck / linux users.
The suspend game feature is probably the biggest player, especially when its idle it doesnt use any power ( except of course the common battery drain ) in comparison to windows “sleep” it just blacks out the screen and maybe run a little less background tasks.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same, though I hope the SD2 had some more power, I would like to play on a 1080p (or even 1440p) monitor with mouse and keyboard without sacrificing framerate.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You would do that probably because you have a huge Steam library but many Switch users have a huge Switch library and want that performance upgrade. You and me are not their target audience but it remains to be seen if the Switch 2 will flop or exactly what Nintendo fans want right now. There‘s a huge difference between 600€ and 1000€ anyway.
Rooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Toe to Toe? At least the steamdeck can run Crysis. Switch not, easy Steamdeck win.
Performance upgrade on a already locked on 60fps ( some 30 ) games? on default on a LCD display? That they didnt even considered default on OLED display is just … cash grabby.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And the switch 2 can run the new mario kart and the steam deck not.
Both of these games don’t run on the other platform because they are exclusives, not because the hardware can’t handle it. So what’s your point?
It’s just confirming what the guy you replied to was saying: if you have steam games and want to run steam games, get a steam deck. If you have switch games and want to run switch games, get a switch.