Why do they need to “fight”? They already have the massive advantage of not being locked into Nintendo’s expensive ecosystem. It’s an entirely separate market of people who specifically want to play (new & non-emulated) Nintendo games and nothing else.
The fight part is debatable, but I thought the recommendations for future devices were all good ideas, and covers a lot of the shortcomings of many handheld PCs.
You’re both totally right here. The article you linked was well written and had a bunch of good ideas about what players in the handheld market could do to make their products competitive and consumer friendly. I don’t think many of the people commenting here actually read the article, which is too bad.
And yeah, I think Nintendo has and will continue to make hardware that is compelling to gamers of all kinds. There’s plenty of room in the market for PC and Nintendo devices.
“Fight”. Far be it that we don’t turn everything into a zero-sum “war” 🙄. Can the SD community please not carry over the same console war bullshit just because it’s kinda-sorta similar to the switch? That shit is so lame.
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Yeah. The Switch was incredibly compelling when I couldn’t get my hands on a SteamDeck, and before I had like six separate controllers die to joystick drift.
But now… Nintendo are the ones on the back foot. I look forward to playing with Mario again someday after Sonic teaches him how to lose gracefully and port his games to every platform.
I could really only find three or four games I even wanted that were exclusively on Nintendo. I could never justify buying anything else from Nintendo going forward after how shitty the companies policies are. Nintendo’s novelty has warn off.
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I’ll get a Switch 2 only for the first party Nintendo games (I’m a sucker for a good Mario game)
I don’t think a fight is necessary. The Switch 2 is mostly for Nintendo 1st party games, and some third parties and perhaps a number of indies. There’s room for the market for that. We didn’t need to fight the Switch 1 either.
Why can’t the Steam Deck and other handheld PCs coexist with the Switch 2? Both are not interchangeable, just because its a handheld. You are not forced to buy a handheld PC to play certain games. This is not a situation like Playstation vs Xbox.
I’m not concerned with Nintendo, I’m more curious to see some real competition for the Steam Deck.
Hall effect joy cons (combined with Switch 1 game support) could have gotten a hardware purchase out of me, but I think they already missed on that?
