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My wife bought a Steam Deck a few months ago; she hasn't touched her Switch since then, and she's actually considering just getting rid of it.
There is virtually nothing the Switch can do that the Steam Deck can't. It's completely redundant if you have a Deck in my opinion.
The thing the switch can do is play closed garden games because nintendo refuses to release their games anywhere outside of their own consoles
I guess you could use an emulator but thats not ideal for 95% of the population
I also abandoned my switch for a steam deck but uhhh the obvious thing it can’t do is play switch games lol
It can, I've got several switch games on my Deck
Plays it as well as a switch?
You're about to enter a world of magic, my friend.
The Switch hardware was year old smartphone parts at the time it was released.
Even flagship phones at the time could beat its performance.
You always have to account for inefficiencies when emulating vs playing on native hardware. Just because the steam deck is more powerful than a switch does not mean it will necessarily play games better. I am not saying it does not, but It’s certainly not a given
Ehh... It kinda' is, actually.
Ever since DirectX 12 and Vulkan came about (and even before), hardware has been becoming more and more PC-like by the year. These days, games come out on all consoles that don't have an exclusivity deal and PC because the hardware differences as far as programming are basically nil these days. All they have to do is support the control scheme and it's done-ish.
The Switch was so easy to dev for specifically because it's basically glorified phone hardware. That's precisely why emulators even CAN exist on PC that can do 4k, or else you might actually have had a valid point. They're all the same shit under the hood these days, sort of like x86 instructions, except for gaming, and at an ever higher level than raw hardware instructions. Ubiquity is a good thing in this case.
It runs most switch games better than the switch. You just can't play any of them online. (At least not easily, AFAIK.)
Emulator.
Its actually better than the switch too. I play at 4k.
How do you play 4k emulators on the Deck.
And whywouldyou?
I don't play on a deck.
This entire conversation is about the Deck
Come back! You dirty liar!!
Haha. This thread was priceless. I thought you were about to recommend playing 4k games connecting the deck to a TV... No idea if it's posible, it should... Anyway...
How TF am I a liar?? I never once lied in this thread lol.