Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ain’t got those amazing Nintendo games though. Glhf finding a Mario Cart replacement that is actually as good.

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  • Jomn@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IMO, Sonic Racing: Crossworlds is better than Mario Kart. I find it much more fun.

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Same. I was able to get like 10 long-wishlisted games for ~$100 with the Steam Winter Sale, too. Nintendo would never.

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  • psoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bro that’s my patient gaming technique! $10 games FTW!

    What you got?

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    • Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      • Just Crow Things
      • PowerWash Simulator
      • Wanderstop
      • Thank Goodness You’re Here!
      • Night in the Woods
      • Hello Kitty Island Adventure
      • Cinnabunny
      • Unbox the Room
      • April Grove

      At some point I still want LAN Party Adventures, and The Lonesome Guild but those will wait until the next sale. In the meantime I have plenty to sink my teeth (thumbs?) into!

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well I saw Pokemon Legends ZA for 48% off recently. Not that it‘s worth that much or that I would ever buy a Switch 2. I actually stumbled upon that sale randomly. But the fact it‘s on sale already speaks volumes. Nintendo is likely in panic mode.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i wonder if it has do with pokemon being slop for the past generation and this one too.

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its so much fun! And my library of steam games already works on it.

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I got emulators setup so I can even play switch games on it as well.

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  • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Which switch emulator is working well for you? I still have yuzu and ryujinx on mine but games are crashing when I try to load them and stuff

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are several yuzu and ryujinx forks floating around. For yuzu there’s citron, and eden-emu; for ryujinx there’s ryubing. Game compatibility varies so I suggest trying them all and see if any works.

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• LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I find the Steam Deck far too heavy and bulky unfortunately. I’d love a Switch sized handheld PC.

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  • arf@lemmy.today ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I love mine but I also agree that it’s a chunky boy. I’d absolutely get a Steam Deck Lite if Valve were ever to come out with one, even if it had weaker performance than the original.

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  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idk I picked it up and personally I felt the complete opposite. Everyone says its so massive and huge, I expected this massive bulky handheld but sadly its the opposite. Its big yeah but not really controller sized, my hands are too big for it so I’ll just stick to the steam controller (until the new one releases)

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• kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It might be, but if you care about the newest games, you either stick with the Switch 2, wait for a SD 2 or look elsewhere… The SD is getting closer to the Switch 1 state where modern games start to look more blurry, and if you want a hybrid device… Well, it is gonna show more.

  Also for some stupid reasons SD availability sucks in several countries, like Mexico.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most of “the newest games” are well within the spec of the Steam Deck. Of the 4 non-exclusive games nominated for GOTY at the Keighleys, they’ll all run on it just fine. Some of the biggest games of the year end up being the likes of Peak, Schedule I, or Megabonk, and not only are those games only available on PC (at least for a while), but they’re not even pushing the spec of the Steam Deck to its limit. With RAM pricing issues going on right now, high end studios are likely going to target a lower spec. And the companies that can afford to make a game that hits that higher spec are few and far between anyway, compared to the AA and indie studios that made most of the best games of the past few years.

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    • kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      With RAM pricing issues going on right now, high end studios are likely going to target a lower spec.

      That is quite a positive thought that I would truly want to become real, let’s just wait and see I guess, that doesn’t change the fact that SD 2 is imminent though (I know that is obvious).

      What about hybrid gaming? I don’t think anyone can agree that SD is better than the Switch 2 or any other handheld device in 2025 regarding that… Perhaps only in certain cases as locked awful framerate (for the Switch 2).

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        All of new gaming hardware is decidedly less imminent now that this pricing nonsense is going on. Even if the tech exists, no one thinks they can sell at what they’d have to charge for it. It’s going to be a rough near term future for gaming hardware before it eventually levels out. Reports are that consoles planned for 2027 are now looking like they’ll be pushed back.

        I’m not super used to calling that “hybrid gaming”, but my wife seems to have no problem playing cozy games on the Steam Deck, almost exclusively on the TV when I didn’t take it with me on the go. And we’re once again back to the best games and the best graphics not being all that correlated. The other part is that even if a random gamer has a Steam Deck, it’s unlikely to be their only gaming PC, and if they want the power to produce that larger image at better frame rates at home, they’ll play on that other PC, and that game will run its best there. On Switch 2, that one device is your only option no matter what. That means that if you want to play one of those beefier titles from the Switch 1, they’re not going to run at better settings ever unless the developer explicitly upgrades them; even then, there’s often the Switch tax compared to buying the same game on PC.

        I’m not trying to talk you down from a Switch 2 if that’s your preference, but if someone’s asking me for a recommendation for a gaming handheld, the Steam Deck is going to be what I tell them until I rule it out due to some other need. I definitely wouldn’t start with a Switch 2. The Deck just hits a compelling price with a good software experience and, perhaps most importantly, a library that dwarfs what Nintendo could ever hope to match by following the traditional console model.

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    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      From what I’ve heard, Expedition 33 runs like hot garbage. Even if you use something like Lossless Frames to us AI generated frames to fill in gaps and run at super low settings.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I played it all on desktop, but it looks like it got a performance update a month ago and is now Deck verified. Friends of mine played it on Deck before that and didn’t mention any complaints, but I wasn’t fishing for them either.

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