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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But I don’t feel that Steam alone accounts for PC gaming.

  If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.

  Even on my Steam Deck, I use GOG, Epic, and itch.io quite regularly.

  Sure. Because it is functionally just a computer with a Valve-branded Linux distro. But there are PC games ported to Mobile. I’m not going to count all Android phones to the “PC” side of the aisle just because I can install Balatro on my OnePlus.

  The whole reason the Steam Deck exists is to compete as a portable full sized hand-held console comparable to the Switch. If you’re not talking about portable consoles, you’re not really talking apples-to-apples. Anyone crammed into the coach end on an airplane can tell you the quality of life difference between a gaming laptop and a hand-held.

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  • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.

    This makes no sense because as you just mentioned, the Steam Deck is just a Valve-branded Linux distro. Really, what we should be doing is counting PC exclusives. And I say PC because Proton makes the difference between Windows and Linux moot – Steam plays Windows games, often better than Windows itself.

    If we’re talking exclusives, there are way more on PC than on Switch.

    The whole reason the Steam Deck exists is to compete as a portable full sized hand-held console comparable to the Switch.

    No, the whole reason the Steam Deck exists is to play your PC games on a handheld, and do it with a console-like experience.

    What I feel you don’t understand – and I can’t emphasize this enough – is that there are games I’ve always wanted to play on a console that I just couldn’t because they required either a desktop or laptop. Off the top of my head, here’s just a few:

    • Blood
    • Septerra Core
    • Jazz Jackrabbit
    • Fate
    • AquaNox

    You know how many times I wanted those games to get ported to console? Decades later, it still hasn’t happened.

    What the Steam Deck does is make games that were previously inaccessible – available in handheld and TV (via dock).

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.

    I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:

    If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.

    Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.

    Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a handheld PC, a new product category. The switch isn’t competing with it, it’s just a toy.

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