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Its unfair to call it a “console war” when one is a classic locked down console and another is a general handheld computer. This also means there are bigger societal stakes in this argument than jusy “which corporate flavor you like more” because empowers people and the other does the exact opposite.

So no, “console wars” here are very much cool.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Competition is good. If the Switch didn’t exist then I don’t think we would’ve gotten the Steam Deck.

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- drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  If the Switch didn’t exist then I don’t think we would’ve gotten the Steam Deck.
  
  or we would have earlier and more of it? I’m not sure how are you basing your hipothesis is but to assume that handheld market with this crazy demand would just be there unfulfilled is kinda silly.
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re contradicting yourself. If you believe the Steam Deck exists purely independently from the Switch and that we would’ve had the Steam Deck before the Switch if the Switch never existed, but we didn’t, it came after.
    
    And no, I don’t think it invented some sort of magic technology, obviously I don’t think that. I’m saying the Steam Deck was good competition for the Switch in the portable/docked market (whatever we wanna call those).
    
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