Good luck getting someone to continue emulation development. The only potential chance for development is exclusively on the under web, and the dev has said that “this was supposed to be a hobby” meaning they have an out if they don’t want to continue
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoI imagine the steam deck will be capable of emulating switch 2 titles nearly immediately, so there’s little reason to buy it. They really need to make their hardware comparable to their software (minus the notoriously awful Japan™ netcode)
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Emulating Switch 2 games on the Steam Deck would be a challenge. Even though it’s on an outdated process node, I think it’s fair to say it’s in the same class of hardware as a a Steam Deck (which is 3 years old at this point).
Deck 2, though…
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
The switch was weaker than the PS4, which was the same age difference at launch
Shit, I think you could actually compare it reasonably to a PS3 from 10 years before switch launch
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Steam Deck maxes out at 15W while a launch PS4 does 10 times that. Really poor comparison.
russjr08@bitforged.space 2 days ago
Hardware aside, to my knowledge no one is really actively developing any of the Switch emulators due to the prior legal action that was taken.
Now, eventually it’s possible someone might do it for the Switch 2, but I wouldn’t expect anything quick as whomever does so will very likely incur the mighty wrath of Nintendo’s legal team.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
They’re going to sell it for $500, if it’s comparable to the steam deck. I find that unlikely, personally.