That significantly gets quickly set back by the price of online services and games. An old game on Switch is $60 (I have been wanting to buy a few games for my wife and they never went into any significant discount), meanwhile an old game on Steam is $3, so you can build a much larger library on Steam even if you were starting from scratch.
That’s a really burnt me. I bought one big switch title game and it was pokémon shield. It was 60 bucks and I was so disappointed and there was no return. I got some small indie games, Hades on the switch was really fun. But after getting my steamed deck it just opened up all of the games that are already owned on my computer. Just quickly out classed me switch.
I do wish that I could take the controllers off the side of the steam deck and play it. Kind of like the switch. I know I can just use a wireless controller, but it was just kind of a nice form factor thing.
My switch was $350. My deck was $400. And the games on deck are way cheaper than switch. Aside from Zelda, I haven’t touched the switch since I got my deck.
Does it though? The steam deck is still a new console and just got a price drop. The switch has been out for years so it should be cheaper. Also I’m pretty sure the switch costs the same amount when it was a new system
The switch is $250, the OLED is $300. I should’ve said $250, fair enough.
However it is absolutely ridiculous to say it’s a switch lite. Pretty much everybody now has a USB-C dongle, which the steam deck can use in most cases. It’s not like Nintendo where you need their proprietary dock. The only thing I can’t do is pop the controls off of the actual system. A switch lite can’t even be docked.
Most people also have one wireless video game controller, definitely a mouse and keyboard.
it’s really weird to me that you keep including “things people already have” as if they didn’t have to already buy those things with money in order to have them
A used version of Doom for switch at gamestop is $33. Buying it new from nintendo is $40. Its on sale for playstation right now for $3. Three dollars. Regular price is $20 (also $20 on steam). Also the switch runs it at 720p at 30fps or less and literally any other system it was released on is capable of running it at 1080p at 60fps. Twice the performance, half the cost on other systems than switch. Thats Nintendo for you.
The Steam Deck also costs significantly more
That significantly gets quickly set back by the price of online services and games. An old game on Switch is $60 (I have been wanting to buy a few games for my wife and they never went into any significant discount), meanwhile an old game on Steam is $3, so you can build a much larger library on Steam even if you were starting from scratch.
Long story short:
That’s a good point I hadn’t considered
That’s a really burnt me. I bought one big switch title game and it was pokémon shield. It was 60 bucks and I was so disappointed and there was no return. I got some small indie games, Hades on the switch was really fun. But after getting my steamed deck it just opened up all of the games that are already owned on my computer. Just quickly out classed me switch.
I do wish that I could take the controllers off the side of the steam deck and play it. Kind of like the switch. I know I can just use a wireless controller, but it was just kind of a nice form factor thing.
My switch was $350. My deck was $400. And the games on deck are way cheaper than switch. Aside from Zelda, I haven’t touched the switch since I got my deck.
Same. After I got my steam deck I donated my switch to the library.
Thank you for supporting your local library. More support to libraries!
Does it though? The steam deck is still a new console and just got a price drop. The switch has been out for years so it should be cheaper. Also I’m pretty sure the switch costs the same amount when it was a new system
$300 vs $400 is a stretch for “significantly more” but even accepting that, the steamdeck outclasses the switch’s hardware specs.
Plus when you buy a switch, you have no games. Anybody buying a steamdeck presumably already has a library of games to play on it.
it’s more like $200 for the switch, since the deck without addons is more comparable to the switch lite
50% is already “significantly more”
100% definitely is
The switch is $250, the OLED is $300. I should’ve said $250, fair enough.
However it is absolutely ridiculous to say it’s a switch lite. Pretty much everybody now has a USB-C dongle, which the steam deck can use in most cases. It’s not like Nintendo where you need their proprietary dock. The only thing I can’t do is pop the controls off of the actual system. A switch lite can’t even be docked.
Most people also have one wireless video game controller, definitely a mouse and keyboard.
it’s really weird to me that you keep including “things people already have” as if they didn’t have to already buy those things with money in order to have them
Ok so now we need to list TV’s? Internet? Electricity? Jfc.
no because those things are very obviously common to both
Ok you need to pay $60/yr to play online with switch. Let’s factor that in real quick lol
And yes it is reasonable to assume anyone buying a steamdeck has a M+K
nobody i know who has a switch wants to play online with it, but sure
i’m not sure why having a mouse and keyboard is relevant
No it isn’t.
The switch lite is tiny with inputs that don’t work.
A used version of Doom for switch at gamestop is $33. Buying it new from nintendo is $40. Its on sale for playstation right now for $3. Three dollars. Regular price is $20 (also $20 on steam). Also the switch runs it at 720p at 30fps or less and literally any other system it was released on is capable of running it at 1080p at 60fps. Twice the performance, half the cost on other systems than switch. Thats Nintendo for you.