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Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes! Exactly! A comparison between two things based on form factor is not useful! My original point

But by that logic, there is less games on my WiFi router than on the Xbox. Same form factor after all.

Was that a comparison between Nintendo switch and steamdeck because "they have the same form factor" is not fitting, which I tried to illustrate with my router to Xbox comparison!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Form factor very clearly isn't the only consideration though, and when combined with the other factors it becomes very useful. The comparison here is of two devices for playing video games, and form factor makes a difference there. Back in the early 2000s, people weren't really comparing the GBA to the PS2, the Xbox, the GameCube and the Dreamcast. These simply were different markets. Likewise, the Steam Deck and the Switch are more comparable than the Deck and the PS5 specifically because of form factor, even though as computing devices the Deck and the PS5 are more similar (both are running custom AMD Zen 2 CPUs with custom RDNA 2 GPUs, for example). The Steam Deck is, in practice, only slightly more "a PC" than the PS4 is.