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Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed (venturebeat.com)
submitted 1 day ago by ampersandrew to c/games
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A Direct is announced for April 2nd to cover the games.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get how a Steam Deck is a replacement for a Switch tbh.

You buy the Switch to play Nintendo games mostly, though it's nice that you can take it with you.

You buy the Steam Deck because you can take it with you and it has a huge library - but it has no Nintendo games, so it fails to scratch that one particular itch.

[–] NukeNPave 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

but it has no Nintendo games

Natively? No, but it is pretty easy to emulate on the Deck. I have successfully run everything from Gameboy to Nintendo DS and Switch games on the Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Hmm, how's Switch piracy these days? If I'm emulating, I'm probably not going to be paying for games either since I can't have physical copies