you can get a switch anytime. might as well get a deck while you can.
Get a gameboy advance
>>736276514The one that has 4060 performance and runs PS3 and 360 games.So not these two
>>736276514>80 bing bing wahoo dogshit vs any game you want for freeyou'd have to be retarded to not pick the deck albeitdoe
As someone with both, get a steamdeck. You can play most games on steam with some tweaking, can emulate switch and just about everything before it and with game pass you have access to a lot more titles otherwise too intensive for either device.
>>736276514>reinvigorate my love for gamingOnly playing soulful retro games can do that. So to an extent, both works, I guess
You literally can't even buy a new steam deck right now. Thanks Valve you worthless fucks.
Do you want to play all games or just like 2?
>>736278512Would blame trump and AI for that one. Unless you want to pay market value for those components. Given the number of units the steam deck sells it doesnt make sense to buy those components right now. You get better discounts in higher bulk and it just doesnt move enough units to justify that.
>>736278657Nintendo and Sony are still selling their consoles.
>>736276514so how are you supposed to play games that require keyboards on the Deck?
>>736278941you can map keys and the trackpad works surprisingly well(best track bad on these bad boys, same reason im hyped for the steam controllers)im playing dawn of war rn, and the community layouts are more than fine
>>736278707Their businesses rely on it, and they both increased the prices of their consoles to compensate.
>>736278941You can literally plug a keyboard in. Its just a pc.
>>736276514'eck>better ergonomics>slightly higher performance that Switch 2's handheld mode>MUCH bigger library, and that's without factoring in emulation
>>736276514the 2witch has like five games
>>736276514Anyone who owns a Steam deck, how's the joysticks? Do they drift easily just like the shitty Nintendo joycons? How hard is to repair them if they drift?
>>736281198your question could be answered if you took one second to look at the product page
imagine paying $550 for a giant brick (dock not included, requires a separate controller for docked play) to run games worse than a $450 tablet (dock included, includes detachable controllers for docked play)
>>736278707You can thank Biden and the Democrat party for that one.
>>736276514The Steam Deck is a gaming machine where you'd play hundreds of games. A Switch 2 is just a console to play 2-3 Nintendo games on.
>>736281839joycons are fucking awful, in handheld or docked. you have to be a child or something to think these are acceptable
>>736276514A love for gaming? The deck, easily. EASILY. Plays damn near everything and if you have any sort of backlog, it'll crush it. Even if you're a fan of Nintendo games, the Deck is better for that than the S2 is. The S2 just doesn't have the games and is only for absolute Nintendo diehards who don't mind any of the shitty things Nintendo has been doing lately.
>>736278707Their business would literally crater if they did. Valve isn't utterly reliant on the Steam Deck like Sony and Nintendo are on their consoles. Not even remotely. It's just a side venture for them. It's why they can just casually sell it only on Steam with practically no marketing or any physical presence. Meanwhile Sony has to raise their prices on the console and Nintendo raised their prices across the board to compensate, something Valve is unwilling to do.
>>736281198A non-issue, and even if something does happen to them, the deck is made to be repairable. I had like 3 pairs of joycons that drifted and there was always a friend who had one of their pairs drifting when we got together for multiplayer sessions. Apparently did not fix that with the switch 2. I bought a deck at launch and have had no problem with extensive use.
>>736277569>and runs PS3 and 360 games.The deck does that though. Hell, I played bloodborne on my deck.
>>736276514Deck if you like to buy your games with nice discounts during many sales across many competitive stores. Switch if you like paying $80 for every game with maybe a 10% discount when Nintendo is feeling generous.
>>736281198If they did drift, you can easily replace them. >>736281839>this is all xe hasYou lost, tendie.
>>736281839>still only has the old shitty ubislop wars port with nuked settings on the s2 and mandatory raytracing on the deck as a favorable comparisonlollmao
>>736277839Na, you can do that on the switch too. Steam Deck is a Chinese toy.
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>>736287637lol have fun with that
>>736287637>trying to run pc linux on a cheap android tabletSounds incredibly miserable. Also you need a modchip to accomplish that, unless you want a busted piece of shit from 2017.
Well you literally can't buy a steam deck anymore so....
>>736288163You had multiple opportunities to get it for 300 bucks.
>>736276514Switch is better if you only care about terrible tendie gamesDeck is better if you want a portable gayming device
>>73628441710fps is not playable you retard
The one that allows you to play 99% of all video games.
>>736281839>requires separate dock and controllerSo it's not actually cheaper, fucking hell.
>>736276514Switch 2 gave me hate for gamingt. Nintendo fan
>>736288275Bloodborne runs at roughly 40fps on the 'eck. Literally better than the PS4 because you can remove chromatic aberration.https://youtu.be/0NMIJ78-9Sc
>>736288275Why are you like this when you can be proven wrong with like 20 videos?What do you get from this?
>>736281839>the sheer difference in the population densityWhy are mentally ill tendie autists so fucking dishonest?
>>736287637do you have any idea how bad the switch 1 is?not only is it arm which will cause problems, it's also slow as fuck nvidia arm with an abhorrently weak gpu
I have a steamdeck but never fucking use the thing, same with my Switch 2. I need to find some game to really get me into it and its formfactor.
>>736277487What about if they make a deck 2?
>>736276514Both of these will cause you neck pain.
>>736288527just buy some kino games you always wanted to have on older systems, it works for me, I have a new pc and the Switch 2 and I use more my older consoles than those
>>736288458He's never done it, he just looked up a video to try and shitpost. He would never go against his master.
>>736287169nta but the switch 2 has better hardware + dlss, this isn't a debate, any game will look better on the switch 2 compared to the deck
>>736288275If you can't even perform a basic search, how you do you even manage to function, let alone navigate to this site?
>>736288728The deck is a better handheld. The only time the switch 2 can perform better is docked. The deck also has way more options than the switch 2 in order to play demanding games, like lossless or remote play, or prioritize visuals or performance.
Neither, buy a GPD Win 5 for ps5 pro perfomance in handheld
>>736288617>What about if they make a deck 2?That’s not going to happen anytime soon. Valve is dragging its feet on launching the Steam Box, and even once it does, it’ll be at least 1–2 years before we see a Deck2.
>>736288836every digital foundry comparison showed the switch 2 outperfoming the deck by a large margin, fsr is a curse
>>736288617still needs something better than the z2e for valve to make a deck2
>>736288728the only thing that's actually better about the switch 2 is the raytracing performanceit has a dogshit cpu, dogshit battery, dogshit cooling that limits the power draw, dogshit slow screen with 30hz response times, dogshit ergonomicsin practice its performance is just worse across the board and the only time it beats the deck is when it has to run raytracing
>>736288728the steam deck is outdated vaporware
>>736288893No they don't. You're right dlss is better than fsr, but there's only so much it can do and the switch 2 nukes itself in handheld mode or its battery life would be 30 minutes instead of 2 hours. Not to mention the deck has lossless.You can compare RE9 on the deck and switch 2 and the switch 2 had to upscale from 360p and have aggressive dof while the deck just handles it. There's a reason outlaws is the only comparison that anon ever posts. Hell, they were all primed to use cp2077 to endlessly shitpost against the deck with, using it constantly before the switch 2 released, and then it came out and they couldn't do it, because it wasn't a favorable comparison for the switch 2.
>>736288369>>736288372>>736288747>genuinely engaging with a tendie troll marketerHe knows full well that his piece of shit fischer price tablet is inferior to a handheld PC. It doesn't even have the massive lineup of Wii U ports that the OG Switch had.>>736289009Your next line is:>switch 2 has bananza, deck doesn't, i win :)
>>736288728nta but>games will look better on hardware released this year compared to hardware released 4 years agoI would hope so?The benefit of the Steam Deck is the openness and power of the PC platform. The ability to emulate almost any console without voiding your warranty or modding of any kind. The massive library of the PC which has been the best gaming platform in the past 15 years in terms of overall content and cost. Full forwards-compatibility (You can't natively plug in your GBA, SNES, NDS, 3DS or WiiU game onto your Switch. You likely won't be able to play your Switch game on Switch 4 once it gets released in 15 years. Meanwhile your 2004 PC game can still be installed on any PC). Also being able to use the Steam Deck as a PC too.It's also not like the Steam Deck is the only x86 SteamOS or Windows/Linux handheld. There's plenty of more powerful options.
>>736288849>GPD Win 5This is not even a handheld. It needs to be plugged into a power supply to work. Or requires the external battery pack which makes it weigh 2x-5x as much as any normal handheld.
>>736289120Eh, it keeps the thread active. Tendies infest every deck thread and this one was sure to get them with the op comparison.
When you realize these tendies are miserable autistic pieces of shit who only have their loyalty to Nintendo and cart collection to boost their ego, then you'll realize all of this is a waste of time. Deck is obviously better if you play video games seriously beyond petty consolewar bullshit.
>>736289225gpd win 5 is a handhled, the powersupply being plugged into the back doesn't change that, it's form factor is also smaller than a switch 2 or steam deck
>>736288864>en dash for number rangeNot sure if bot or literate anon.
>>736289236Fanboys of all stripes are fundamentally hypocritical retards. You see it time and time again where they'll attack and mock something their "enemy" is doing or failing at, then it happens to them and they bend right over and defend it. Corporations have them by the balls and it's pathetic.
>>736289236>>736289380uh oh steamie manchild melty, now go suck gabens cock some more while he makes billions off gambling addicts + releases a shitbox console/pc that has ps4 pro level perfomance
Okay changeI'll buy a GPDWIn5
Never buy a steam deck. Holy shit was that thing lied about all the time
The switch 2 easily.Nintendo games are just fun ya know?
>>736289431It is the objective best handheld on the market
>>736276514Buy the handheld whose sole purpose wasn't selling to piratejeets
>>736289462>Nintendo games are just fun ya know?Guess the deck wins easily then since it has more of them then.
>>736289380I couldn't imagine living like them, like, I'm buying a Switch 2 in 2 weeks since I haven't played Pokemon in years and liked how Scarlet and Pokopia looks. Like, who the fuck cares if one corpo sold more than another, or if one device with a vastly different library gets marginally better performance on half-assed AAA ports. I buy what device lets me play the games I want to play, and there are a lot of games that I want to play. I'm not sure why people turn corporations into their personality. Imagine someone with an iphone irl shitting on someone else's phone because the iphone28proXL has a 1000 MB camera; you would get laughed at and called a weirdo--it's fucking stupid
>>736289526with worse perfomance kek, enjoy fsr upscaled waterpainting sludge at 25 fps
>>736289431this is way too expensive and powerful to not have oleds and an actually usable trackpad instead of that piddly shityou can get a ps6 tier pc for 2/3 of that price, that igpu performs about on par with an rx 7600, a $280 gpu
>>736289526Your pc has all those games but it won't have switch 2 games.You might have gotten fucked but you dont need to fuck everyone else to make yourself feel better.
>>736289583*better
>>736289575> Imagine someone with an iphone irl shitting on someone else's phone because the iphone28proXL has a 1000 MB camera; you would get laughed at and called a weirdo--it's fucking stupidyou must not go out much because this happens a lot, especially if you use android
>>736289583Can you play Mario Kart Wii with Retro Rewind on the Switch 2?
>>736289431$2500 for a handheld is insane.
>>736289496>pocopeialolI'll just enjoy the native port of the best animal crossing as the community makes it even better.
>>736289431It may be the most powerful handheld out there but that price is retarded
>>736289615>one machine has access to a wider selection of games>tendie thinks about getting fucked in the ass
>>736289638Oh, in my experience if people try it, I tell them that they give out those phones for free and that pretty much ends the conversation 99% of the time
>>736289431>up to 128gb ram for a handheld gaming systembut why
>>736289615>Your pc has all those games but it won't have switch 2 games.The switch 2 doesn't have any and I haven't liked or respected a nintendo game in over a decade, so I'll live.
>>736289750It's like buying a gaming laptop only to realize it's shit compared to your desktop.The deck is a waste of money at this time, the switch 2 might not have a huge library yet but its fun and a nice to have.Games run like trash on the deck and I feel bad for anyone that falls for your shilling.
>>736289357>it's a handheld because I say so!Sure, and my controller is a handheld as well. It doesn't matter it needs to be connected to a PC and monitor to work.
>>736287637You're telling me I can play Helldivers 2 on the device that can't even fun Dragons Dogma above 30fps?
>>736289840>>736289484>>736289594>>736289706>poorfags complaining they can't afford the GPDWin 5 which is 5x the perfomance of some toddlers shitdeckcope and stay brown
>>736281839>requires a separate controller for docked playlmfao no one wants to use shitendo's dildo sticks they've been recycling since the wii and end up with drift issues after 2 weeks
>my name?>gabe-N W>why
>>736281839>Paying out for a Tendie2 and all you can play is slop like thisGrim.
>>736289993And the switch 2 is like buying a prison system with a warden that actively hates you. I also feel bad for anyone that falls for your shilling.
>>736289840CPU, GPU and ram are in a single chip, you can't have less
>>736287637>you can do that on the switch tooYes, but not the switch two, which this thread is about.
Nintendo Derangement syndrome has been in overdrive after the steamcucks + snoys got humilated by this video >>736281839
>>736289998It is a handheld, nobody agrees with you. Cope poorfag cuck.
>>736288728>the switch 2 has better hardware + dlssSlightly. It's still a handheld and gets absolutely raped by a desktop of the same price. If you cared about graphics, you'd get a PC. The 'eck beats the switch 2 everywhere else and is a better choice overall.
>>736290197kill yourself tendie
>>736290260If you're posting here then chances are you have a pc that outperforms the deck.
>>736288728switch 2 also has better games like pokopia, deck is just a bad deal in 2026
>>736290319NTA, but I do. A way better PC.I still use my Deck for gaming 87% of the time according to Valve because it's just that versatile and convenient. It's an excellent companion device regardless of anyone's desktop.
>>736290414Lmao lol even
>>736290414deck is an indie machine and nothing more, pc for higher end gaming, switch 2 for nintendo exclusives this is the ultimate combo imo
>>736290330there's a million faggy builder games with a minecraft skin on steam, tendie
>>736290465This is common sense but some fags already went all in on the decks so they can't admit they were wrong.
>>736289993>gaming laptopfalse equivalence, no laptop has the deck's power and form factor at 300 bucks
>>736290571You have autism and it's not the fun kind.
>>736290531its mostly sunk cost fags, I own a deck oled, switch 2 and 5080 rig, I barely use my deck nowadays because the switch 2 is now my main handheld and for everything else I just use my pc, the deck I only take out for niche indies with no support on other platforms. poorfags gonna poorfag and a lot of deck users are poorfags
>>736276514Valve delisted the steam deck because the switch 2 made it obsolete. So until the steam deck 2 releases its over.
>>736290240I don't need anyone to agree with me to know I'm right. It's not a handheld.
>>736290864it is a handheld, you are wrong
>>736287637god i love midwits, we need more of you around here
Switch 2 made me lose my love for gaming What a piece of shit literally a downgrade to the OLED switch
>>736276514switch 2 easily
>>736276514Steam Deck is pretty shit compared to most handhelds nowadays including the Switch 2.
>>736290932No matter how much you cope and repeat this it won't be true.
>>736290615>no argumentConcession accepted :)>>736290781>valve explicitly stated they were getting fucked over by AI companies>also probably ran out of 7nm van gogh chips for the LCDOf course tendrones don't understand the term "phased out".
>>736276514Steam deck
You’d have to be a real valve shill to get the deck over for example the Lenovo one with steamos which is cheaper and superior
>>736290982It definitely feels like a downgrade compared to the OLED, which is crazy when you think about it.
there will be games soon for my switch 2, right bros?
>>736276514Rog Ally XGet some real hardware.
>>736291287yeah WW this winter
>>736278707You can thank Obama for that one.
>>736276514The deck is fun to tinker with. But the switch 2 is more fun to play games on.
I keep my Switch 2 docked.I'm a hikineet so it doesn't need to leave my room.
>>736291439The handheld experience sucks right now anyway.
>>736276514The deck offers more utility, has a better display, and a much better ecosystem but the switch 2 is a more powerful device that'll likely have better long term support.
>>736290671Lol, you're a poorfag consolecuck who only has a Shitch2 to play on. It's entirely redundant if you have a PC besides the 3 or so games Nintendo made for the piece of shit and you can't play on PC. The Deck is better in every way imaginable.
>>736290671You're full of shit. The Switch 2 only has like 1-2 games any given person might give a shit about. The Deck is still the far better portable option, especially if you already have a PC, given you don't have to rebuy your games.
