I fully agree with you. The experiences are very different. I think it’s a disservice to point people especially first time gamers to a Steam deck and say “oh look it’s a console”

For me the definition of a console is plug and play with a dedicated UI. Anything you can see in the store you can run ! Anything marked it can play you put the medium in and it runs …

The online discourse on here and on gaming channels have little if any understanding of people who have never picked up a game controller before. Or is under the age of 12.

And even if there was a “war” between the two the Switch most certainly won I believe 120 million to 6 Million ?

There most certainly still is a mainstream market to take advantage of