The unmentioned subtext here is that the steam deck emulates Switch games better than the native hardware plays them, will likely also play Switch 2 games, and costs less at $399 while also giving you access to around 80% of the PC gaming space as well.
As someone who uses their deck daily, big fat asterisk on “it runs switch better than switch”. It runs some better and many don’t run at all, and in most cases has performance dips even there’s a lot going on.
I love the deck but people over blow it’s capabilities all the time. Many modern games that people claim run great also need to go for dogshit settings to get decent performance
I mean yea, the Switch 2 is running some games at 4K that the Steam Deck can barely run at 800p. And somehow people expect the Steam Deck to emulate those better?
Steam Deck is great, but comparing two entirely different devices for different markets is pretty dumb.
Lots to know still, I’m skeptical on playing switch 2 games on the deck because in the demo videos the switch 2 seems to play some games better than the steam deck. But ya, I know I’ve had little issues and higher FPS on the few switch games I’ve loaded on here.
Okay… I hope you enjoy your steam deck then.
The unmentioned subtext here is that the steam deck emulates Switch games better than the native hardware plays them, will likely also play Switch 2 games, and costs less at $399 while also giving you access to around 80% of the PC gaming space as well.
Switch 2 is a bad deal
As someone who uses their deck daily, big fat asterisk on “it runs switch better than switch”. It runs some better and many don’t run at all, and in most cases has performance dips even there’s a lot going on.
I love the deck but people over blow it’s capabilities all the time. Many modern games that people claim run great also need to go for dogshit settings to get decent performance
I mean yea, the Switch 2 is running some games at 4K that the Steam Deck can barely run at 800p. And somehow people expect the Steam Deck to emulate those better?
Steam Deck is great, but comparing two entirely different devices for different markets is pretty dumb.
Lots to know still, I’m skeptical on playing switch 2 games on the deck because in the demo videos the switch 2 seems to play some games better than the steam deck. But ya, I know I’ve had little issues and higher FPS on the few switch games I’ve loaded on here.
We will.