Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2
9point6@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The key thing here is Nintendo now needs to compete with Valve
Valve don’t have to give a shit about Nintendo though as the steam deck is not essential to their main product
This is an interesting shift in the dynamic where Nintendo often are the ones that don’t need to compete with anyone
RandomStickman@kbin.run 4 months ago
Ooh, is this why they're clamping down the emulators even more than before? Showing Yuzu when they first revealed the Steam Deck definitely raised some eyebrows lol
passepartout@feddit.de 4 months ago
They are scared because the steam deck can do everything the switch does, but better (performance wise). Which is fair, since the switch has been on the market for some time, but even back when it was released it has been underspecced.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Underspecced, but having Mario&Co. I wonder if they’d happen to go the Sega’s way, intentionally or not, becoming games and not hardware producer, letting their main franchizes flourish or fall on other’s platforms.
9point6@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly it’s gotta be something they’re considering after looking at sony branching out to PC and making some cash
I reckon it won’t be as abrupt as Sega, we’ll probably see them do a slow pivot,