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[–] saphiron 107 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Fuck Nintendo. Vote with your wallets and don't buy a Switch 2, get a Steam Deck or other similar portable gaming handheld.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Switch 2?

More Like "Switch to Steamdeck" ( ☞˙ワ˙)☞

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Steam deck 2 is just around the corner

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Pure speculation

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hear it's launching with HL3.

[–] mossy_ 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Forget that, it'll have TF3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Deck 2 probably won't come out before the next generation of chips at least

[–] P1nkman 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Damnit... And I just got a steam deck on Monday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

(You're good, steam deck 2 soon is very unlikely)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What ?! Already a power boost / gen-gap to fill?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No. They have no proof. We know Valve's working on something but they always are and nobody knows what it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think they are just baking a cake. Delicious moist cake.

Source: It was revealed to me in a dream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I hope so, I don’t even really need much more power, but I’ll be a day one buyer to support the platform.

I’ll hand the steamdeck 1 down to my wife for stardew, if she wants it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's frustrating how often people need to be reminded of this. Nintendo has repeatedly shown incredible hostility to their greatest fans over the years, and they show no signs of stopping.

They've also done immeasurable harm to game preservation, to their own library and others. I cannot ever forgive them for this. Unless you play games in whatever specific way is blessed at the time, they will make every effort to sabotage it. Please do not enable this behavior.

[–] saphiron 2 points 5 days ago

Well said, I agree 100%

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I really want to grab one of the new handhelds, seem so nice, I feel guilty almost playing games on my pc, when I could be using it for other stuff, playing on consoles fine so it might be time to transition to a linux handheld for the ocassional pc games.

(Like it could be rendering for my other hobby with 3d, instead of the gpu going to games)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I'm going to buy a switch two, which they usually sell the hardware for close to cost. Then I'm gonna leave it in the box and wait until a mod chip comes out that lets me play every game for free.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Just get an emulator for the steam deck

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

It's cheap becuaus it's as powerful as an old phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just get an emulator on PC / Steam Deck. The most likely reason Nintendo went so hard on Switch emulators last year is because they will be able to emulate Switch 2 games with little tweaking (probably just new keys / BIOS). They've confirmed it's backwards compatible with Switch games, which strongly supports this hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I don't like the weight of the steam deck. I like the form factor of the switch. I also like doing hardware mods. It's fun to do.