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).