Haha, I am researching like crazy as well. So far I came to the conclusion that I have 3 options:
So far I’m waiting. My current Switch isn’t going anywhere, but going forward I’m not going to spend much on games there.
As someone with kids and a Switch, I think I can chime in.
It’s easy to pick up, my kids play some games on it, curiously it’s always in handheld mode, never docked.
The literal only thing that might change when I get a Steam Deck is them not being able to use touch controls. They sometimes prefer them for some games, but I think it’s worth learning to use a controller in the long run. Pretty sure we’ll have both Switch and SD for a while so I don’t think it’s much of a problem.
I’ll miss some games, but in the end I don’t really have that much nostalgia for Nintendo as I grew up with a PC and only consoles I had were a NES knock-off, and a Gameboy Color
IIRC it was only later models that were 4-9 hrs. Release model got 3-5 I think?
They switched (heh) production in later hardware revisions to a more efficient version of the CPU, manufactured with lower nm process. Conveniently it was also to stop easy access to debug pins which were exposed in the OG version, giving easy access to entire system
I am very happy with OP12. It’s not flashy or anything but it’s clean, does the job, holds the battery well, does great photos. It’s quite frankly really boring, but in a good way.
One feature that is a big wow for me is that it charges really fast. I plug it in at 5-10% and I have a fully charged phone after half an hour which holds for 2 days
It doesn’t really need it, you can just buy and play it, and it got a graphics update a while ago, so to me at least it looks as good as it looked back in 2005 when I first booted it up