expiredDmytro_B posted Aug 02, 2022 05:11 AM
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expiredDmytro_B posted Aug 02, 2022 05:11 AM
Nintendo Switch Console w/ Neon Blue/Red Joycons (Standard Display)
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They literally didn't even exist in 2005. Your comment is a real head-scratcher.
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If you pay $300 in 6 months and keep the console for 18 months = $16.6 per month of ownership
If you pay $325 now and keep it for 24 months (same end of life) = $13.54 per month of ownership.
Everyone needs to stop worrying about the absolute cheapest in the future and worry more about overall ownership costs..
If I do pull the trigger on the Steam Deck, I'm hoping I don't feel the same about Steam Deck's LCD. At least it is larger than Switch V1 LCD (similar size to Switch OLED's display). My Dell S2721DGF I use for PC gaming looks ok to me, but what it lacks in colors/contrast, it makes up for in resolution and motion clarity with the high frame rates on PC. Steam Deck is a 720p device and a lot of games play at 30fps on it, so won't have that advantage.
Regardless I have no regrets buying a Switch OLED, and I do recommend it for people who play Switch handheld. I dock it to my 1080p plasma TV and play it handheld, and I enjoy both now equally. If I get a Steam Deck, it won't be a replacement / alternative to Switch OLED. Just a way to play a subset of my PC games handheld without the latency of streaming.
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"Soon" according to the "don't buy now" people.
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Any dark games or playing in well lit / sunny areas are night and day with LED vs OLED. Plus the screen sizes makes a big different even if on paper it is minor. The new OLED Switch does seem lower quality construction overall and the joycons even have a bit of back and forth movement when attached.
BTW, I have not touched my Switch in over a month. The Steam Deck is so far past what they promised it to be (even with non-Steam games).
This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly.
Why would you even buy a Steam Deck unless you care about a handheld? You can play a bigger library of games on PC, and many of these are available on Xbox/PS if you don't want to bother with building a gaming PC and those games aren't available or perform bad on Switch.
And of course when it comes to handhelds, Nintendo has been the king since the late '80s; try to compete with that. The Deck appeals to a very niche audience of gamers who want to play a wider variety of games portably, and will never be a legitimate threat to the Switch. Emulation does not make it much more appealing either: most people wouldn't bother with emulation or don't even know what it is to begin with.
This talk comes from people that don't care much for Nintendo games and may have bought a Switch because everyone else was. I mean, sure, if you don't care about 1st party Nintendo games, why buy a Switch at all? That's like me saying for example that since I don't care for Xbox games myself, Xbox is going to die now that the Switch can play Doom Eternal, or it will die if the Switch gets GamePass streaming.
I have 2 gaming PCs, a Switch, Laptop, iPad, and Android Tablets.
I will still be getting a Steam Deck in the next few weeks.
It will be an option for me to play some games away from my desk that I generally could not before while also having the option (I keep saying that a lot) of playing Switch games as well as emulating every console that came before it.
My PC could do most of that but it is not portable at all :/
Options are good, I can't understand why people get so down on something that someone else may or may not want to use.
BTW, I have not touched my Switch in over a month. The Steam Deck is so far past what they promised it to be (even with non-Steam games).
This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly.
The switch is great for playing multiplayer exclusives on the go or with others docked but as some have already said, the Steam Deck is great for pretty much everything else.... even single player exclusives. I definitely don't miss following Dekudeals for any game (digital or physical) price drops for games I have been interested in. The prices for steam games on the "grey" sites are better a majority of the time and a great deal can always be found.
I mean, if you really have to play Mario 64, yet again, I guess I understand why you'd want to do it on a 70' flat screen
And modern ports look horrible docked (compared to any other platform that is), and run terrible FPS on the Switch.
Plus, the Steam Deck is slightly more portable than a PC and monitor. You can 'dock' the Steam Deck with any monitor and keyboard. So exactly the same as a Switch. Portable and dockable. LOL...
What I said was "This is a 'Switch killer' for anyone who can live without the few Nintendo exclusives, especially with all the free AAA PC games given out weekly."
Clearly I was speaking about a person who owned or considered purchasing one or both of the systems. Not suggesting Nintendo was going to file Chapter 11 because Valve released 3 SKU's....
As others have mentioned, if you want to play Nintendo exclusive / 1st party games then get the Switch. Otherwise move on and stop cluttering this thread with platform / console war BS.
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They literally didn't even exist in 2005. Your comment is a real head-scratcher.
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