Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

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Chrkeller said:

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The funny thing is the Steam Deck probably will be able to play most Nintendo games. 

This is the GPD Win 3 emulating the Switch and the Steam Deck is considerably more powerful than the GPD Win 3 so this will run even better than what's shown in this video:

Then you factor in it will be able to run NES to Wii U titles and Game Boy to 3DS titles, this thing will play more Nintendo games than the Switch, lol. 

Obviously the selection of retro Nintendo games on the Switch is pretty badly lacking with many systems missing. 

Congrats to software pirates?

Most people don't know how to mod and/or how to download illegal software.  Hence this won't compete with the switch.  But you knew that already.

It really on takes watching a 3-4 minute video on Youtube these days. I remember back in the day how widespread Playstation piracy was and you have to actually soder the mod chip onto the board, but there was a massive market around doing that but people in the 90s were making due. 

DS piracy being quite widespread as the device aged, I think that was a big part of the reason Nintendo wanted to move on to the 3DS. 

Piracy/emulation is inevitably a problem if you want to keep using tech that is very outdated as time goes on, it become easy for piracy to become a problem. 

So I wouldn't say it's so complex that you have to be some kind of computer nerd to figure it out, it's not that hard to install an emulator on a PC. 

I don't know if this one specific model is the be all end, but I can see this doing well enough that Valve keeps iterating other models and eventually starts selling them in major retailers. And I could see other manufacturers trying their hand too, making it kind of like its own product category (Switch like portable PCs). This model is more like the genie coming out of the bottle, but once the genie is out, it's hard to put it back in.