Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
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My understanding is that there’s essentially not much consumer law that is video game specific. Ross, SKG is his brain child though he’s not in control of the various petitions, has a few response videos about the 2 essentially non-responses.
Edit:
Video about response to first petition:
https://youtu.be/XVGZe-xXS68
And second petition/continuation of first:
https://youtu.be/cI2G4xLBVkY
I DID grow up with Nintendo. The first gaming thing that wasn’t a DOS computer with asteroids and commander keen on it was a NES. Then an SNES. Then an N64. A few months after the N64 we got a Sega Genesis, and a PS1.
All that said?
…fuck Nintendo. Switch 1 games play at a higher resolution and better frame rate ON MY PHONE. I refused to buy a switch, and there’s no chance in hell I’ll get a switch 2. The fact that they say if they “detect” cheating or that your S2 is jailbroken they reserve the right, and built in the ability to, brick your device. Fuck them, get fucked, no fucking chance they’re getting a single cent, pence, fucking whatever out of me. Fuck yourselves well and truly to fuck! 👍🖕👍
Rant over 🥰
If we’re putting the SteamDeck against Nintendo, I’d say the natural comparison is Steam exclusives against Nintendo exclusives.
I disagree. It would be more accurate to say:
If we’re putting the Steam Deck against the Switch 2, the natural comparison is between Switch 1/2 compatible games, without jailbreak, versus any game that works on the Steam Deck hardware be it Linux Native, with wine/Proton and any emulator that runs games minimum original frame rate with minimal issues.
Bear in mind that the Steam Deck is a handheld Linux computer, and anything that will run on the level of hardware it has and plays nicely with Linux will run on the Steam Deck.
Even just with only installing Steam on the Deck, as of mid-May there is 18k Deck Verified games.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/orb_offworld_resource_base
The gog link, on sale right now for £0.99
These get a LOT of play time off me.
Few hundred to over 1 thousand hours each.
Hardspace has the highest requirements of the bunch, and Dwarf Fortress will slow your pc down majorly when it’s doing it’s world building phase.
I mean, my phone can emulate switch games at a better quality than a switch can play them in docked mode. Considering that when it launched the switch wasn’t it wasn’t top of the line specs, and I don’t expect 2 to be.
Edit: pressed post before I was finished 🤦
Above the line was typed before I got curious about what the actual specs are.
Nintendo states that the CPU/GPU are “Nvidia custom chips”.
However, this article from 16th of January (updated 24th of March,) references a leak that says the CPU is an Arm Cortex-A78C, a chip from 2020, it’s an ARMv8.2, and the GPU is an Nvidia T239 Ampere.
The T239 is apparently a variant of the T234, and Nintendo are receiving a further modified version. T239 likely does run a modified A78C. The T234 is used almost exclusively in automotive infotainment systems. It (T239) supposedly is based off RTX-30 tech, the article(last link in above paragraph) rightly notes that that’s a bit suspect.
Below is a screenshot of the spec table(again from the final article linked) comparing the T234, T239, and RTX-2050. Link to said screenshot for people on instances where embedded media is broken.
This article I keep referencing notes that the hardware in the switch 2, if everything is actually accurate and not a bait-and-switch² (eh? eh? 🤓), would be considered behind the curve…for when the Steam Deck released!
I know we were talking about emulated NS1 games on the NS2…but I fell down a fucking rabbit hole and wanted to drag everyone down with me.
So, compatibility layer minimum for playing NS1 games…might actually be a fiction?
This is the A57(NS1 CPU) spec write-up on wiki.
And the A78 again.
Below is the spec tables from both wiki pages.
There’s differences, obviously, but…not insanely so?
We passed that point 5 years ago.