Did you really just DEI the Steam Deck?
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PrimeErective@startrek.website 3 weeks agoYou’re right, the best part of PC gaming is that it’s always inclusive, never exclusive. Thanks for the reminder
Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pc, where games are locked to launchers…?
They have their own flaws, so that’s not even a good counterpoint.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ok I’m with you on the whole store exclusivity thing but come on. More exclusive? Having to buy from a certain store and being able to run anywhere on hardware of your choice is hardly more exclusive than being forced to buy from one vendor and only run on one system.
That said, I do think this whole argument is somewhat moot because the steam deck and switch serve very different but overlapping audiences. I own an original switch and a steam deck, I don’t think one can replace the other but I’ve opted not to buy the switch 2 because Nintendo’s anti consumer practices really turn me off if they want to tell me what I can do with the games and hardware I bought from them.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m passing on the Switch 2 for similar reasons.
I can either fund Nintendo to sue open source developers or I can fund Valve who are payrolling open source developers.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But you can’t…? It’s locked to OS, and it doesn’t run on ALL hardware. There’s minimum specs, and you can’t play modern games on windows 95.
Why do people ignore the glaring flaws while preaching the few okay ones?
zelifcam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You realize there’s been vast technical advancements since 1995, right?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are flaws and benefits to every platform, that’s why they exist otherwise only one would stand the test of time. There’s a reason why PC gaming continues to march on. It has its flaws, sure, I wouldn’t necessarily say glaring though.
The argument here isn’t that PC gaming is flawless or you can run on literally any hardware or os, that’s silly. Just that it’s more flexible and open to choice. I run my Steam library on my Windows PC, Linux PC and steam deck. Games I bought a decade ago can run perfectly fine on all these configurations. That’s the argument I was making and why your claim of PC being more exclusive seemed so disconnected from the reality of my experiences at least.
Still, it’s not an argument to say you should use one platform or the other. Just that they are different and have their pros/cons, flexibility being a huge pro of the PC platform that’s important to some people and less so for others.