Steam Deck is great, but you can’t walk into Walmart and buy one
missingno
link
fedilink
113d

It didn’t have the form factor of the Switch

So it’s not a similar device. Comparing to phones is rather misleading, given that phones do not have active cooling and wouldn’t actually be able to run the kinds of games the Switch hardware could without catching on fire in the process. They aren’t gaming hardware.

Agent Karyo
creator
link
fedilink
English
213d

It’s a portable gaming device. It is in the same market.

You can play complex strategy games that require strong CPUs like Project Highrise, The Final Earth 2, Mega Mall Story 2 on mobile.

You won’t be able to run The Final Earth 2 even with the standard mobile population limit on a Switch because it uses an ancient CPU and it’s a quad core.

Don’t limit yourself by Nintendo PR and marketing. The gaming world (portable or otherwise) is not limited to Nintendo.

Create a post

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here and here.

  • 1 user online
  • 140 users / day
  • 945 users / week
  • 2.59K users / month
  • 6.41K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 5.81K Posts
  • 117K Comments
  • Modlog