Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don't have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.
Sometimes you don't even have to pay for games. 😇
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Innuendo aside, Steam has some awesome F2P titles
It's not Valve that makes the decision, check how many times Factorio was on sale.
GOG is cheaper. Steam does have more franchise deals though.
GOG is also DRM-free and lets you download the game installer as a backup, even if they've been pushing hard for their GOG Galaxy clients as of lately.
Sadly GOG isn't even close to as good as Steam for Linux support.
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PC exclusive games
Get every GameCube game for free instantly by pirating them
GameCube, Wii... Even switch if you can find an emulator fork that still works
Switch emulators are still just as easy to find as they always were. Most people include them with the game.
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We already know that the steamdeck plays switch games better than the switch. It would be hilarious if it also plays switch2 games better than the switch2.
Ah yes, the Deck vs. Switch debate. One offers performance and affordability, the other offers nostalgia at premium prices. Choose your fighter: the powerhouse or the Pokémon tax.
Considering the Steam Deck can run just about every console game ever made up to PS2 gen (and a good amount made after), I'd say they have the Switch 2 beat on nostalgia.
Switch 2 proceeds to outsell the deck by a factor of 50
Steam is clearly playing the long game with Steam Deck and Steam OS, they're basically trying to slowly normalize portable gaming pcs. If they achieve this Nintendo will not be just facing competition from Steam Deck but from multiple devices from the likes of Asus, Lenovo, Dell (Alienware).
The funny part is steam has the most exclusives of em all.
It also has integrated microphone and you can also talk to your friends while playing 🤣
The pricing of this is really going to fuck them.
BotW should be like $10 by now. The fucking DLC for it still costs twice that.
If you want to (legally) play Nintendo games, obviously buy a Switch 2. You don't have any other option. If Nintendo games aren't that important to you, and/or if you already have a large Steam library, a Steam Deck is a great option.
Personally, I love my Steam Deck, but I'm looking forward to a Steam Deck 2, or maybe a third party handheld, running SteamOS, that has a nice, big, 1080p screen, better controls, and better battery life. More power would be nice, but not if it comes with a louder fan and poor battery life. Honestly, I'd even be ok if the device was focused on local streaming, from my PC.
There are plenty of complaints you could levy but $90 minimum is obviously a fucking lie. And don't come at me with 1-2 examples. We all know that's bullshit.
Balatro on mobile is $10 why would you need anything else
How well does Dolphin run on the SteamDeck?
Runs great, been playing though the Metroid Pimes series with PrimeHacks. Solid 60fps
Really really well. Haven't encountered a single game that didn't run flawlessly.
I can't talk to my friends while I play my deck? News to me
Was $90 the minimum? I thought it was the maximum.
$90 for physical, $80 for digital. You get to save $10 so Nintendo can later take it off their marketplace, and remove your access to the game.
You get to save $10 so Nintendo can later take it off their marketplace, and remove your access to the game.
The shitty part is that I don't think physical games are even exempt from that problem. Excluding whichever Switch 2 games are use the "key card" option versus "memory card" (key card basically just being a transferrable download code), we see games like Tears of the Kingdom being nearly unplayable without the day 1 patch. Or other games like Splatoon 3 that simply don't include the full game on the cart and prompt you to download launch-day content after booting it up.
Neither of these games will be very playable even with physical cards once the Switch eShop servers go down for good.
We can only hope the current standard of backwards compatibility lasts indefinitely so all digital stores can basically be like Steam going forward and keep their content available across all future generations. But even that is a stretch when who even knows what the state of CPU architecture will look like in 15-20 years.
We don't know tariff cost yet
LMAO Nintendo buyers are not even part of this conversation. Their community is basically tied with the loyalty they have provided for years and now it's time to cash it in
I don't know what Nintendo was thinking by doing the Nintendo tax bullshit harder than ever during a time when Americans are facing such heavy financial burdens
Switch 2 also added a new button just to advertise their subscription, turns out that C button stands for "CASH PLEASE UwU"
So, hypothetically, if a friend of mine wanted to play some switch games on his/her steam deck, where would be the best place to... aquire said games? Again, purely hypothetical.
A friend of a friend of mine mostly uses this site, but you can always check out the piracy megathread. https://nsw2u.com/
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