Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

[Chrkeller]

Soundwave said:

Chrkeller said:

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Piracy/emulation is inevitably a problem if you want to keep using tech that is very outdated as time goes on, it become easy for piracy to become a problem.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

As previously stated, difficulty is only a piece of the puzzle, the illegal activity of downloading software is another.  But you knew that already.

I don't see many parents buying a Steam Deck and telling Little Johnny to go download a bunch of illegal Nintendo games.  Do you?

This isn't going to compete directly with the Switch, two entirely different demographics, you should know this.