Mario Kart is a good reason to buy Nintendo consoles.

*insert stop having fun meme

Seems more to me like they're gonna get the ball rolling then rely on 3rd parties making the consoles.

Like they'd rather do what Android did and get their OS on as many different types of hardware possible rather than locking you into buying only their hardware.

That's how it looks to me, anyway.

I love the Steam Deck, but if competition comes along and makes something with better hardware and repairability then we all benefit in the end, and Valve benefits even moreso if that new thing comes with SteamOS.

They're at 1.5, I wouldn't hold my breath.

slightly more powerful and in return it can't play all the games and you have to pay for online play, lol

Are you sure about that? After seeing the specs of the Switch 2, I'm convinced that Nintendo put the weakest hardware they possibly could get away with putting in a modern gaming device. I mean Nintendo literally lied and said that it could run games at 120 FPS, when a 4090 can't even do that with literally 10x more CUDA cores.

I mean I believe you, but are you certain that it's actually more powerful than a Steam Deck? Regardless, it doesn't matter because Steam Deck 2 is on the way. Just buy that one when it comes out (or stick to desktop gaming like me if you don't need to game on the go.) Nobody needs a Switch 2.

What short sword has a handle that makes up nearly half its length?

Yes, that's why some over at GBATemp aren't updating their switch and poking at it. But it'll still take a while, and "while" is measured in years usually.

There's a good chance that those with banned switches will be more motivated to find vulnerabilities in the system. Or give their banned switches to those that like finding vulnerabilities.

Also, just because some vulnerabilities are found, doesn't mean that piracy is a guarantee; there was some drama with the 3DS, and then later with the Switch 1, with the people who found vulnerabilities and built hacks not wanting their work to be used for piracy. Piracy only started becoming a thing, then, when other parties replicated (or surpassed) the original hacks and made it available for piracy. This caused some of the hackers to to leave (I think one of them was RXTools. Luma3D far surpassed RXTools).

Probably won't ever get a Ryujinx 2. I'd keep an eye out on Torzu.

However, the system will have to be hacked and decrypted first, but as of right now no real vulnerability has been discovered.

Sounds like I'll still be waiting then, thanks.