Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

[Chazore]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Blood_Tears said:

I agree 100% on this. It's going to hurt the 3rd party sales on Switch to a certain extent as well imo. For example, if you want to play games like Witcher 3 or their future games on a portable you no longer need a Switch for that. 

Yeah, I have no reason to ever buy an indie or non-AAA third party for my Switch once I got into Steam Deck

Nintendo is already removing payment options for 3DS store, I have no faith Switch software will be sold for a long time once Switch 2 reach its mid-life

My indie on Steam Deck will be there as long as the Deck works, and once it stop working then I will buy Steam Deck 2 (if they release a Steam Deck 2) and will carry ALL my library, like... as long as Steam exists. It's a best value proportion than any console maker can offer because only god Knows whether they will be BC or not

By far my biggest gripe with Nintendo, is the fact that they are god awful at backwards compat and their virtual console support. Like I've still got games on my N3DS that still haven't made it to Switch, thus they are forever stuck on my N3DS until it dies.

Meanwhile on my PC, my library has been with me for years, using multiple stores has allowed my library to transverse multiple hardware setups, but I've still got games stuck on my N3DS, that hasn't been doing or seen that much use in the past 4-5 yrs now...

At least once I get a Deck, I'll have most of my library available to me at no extra added cost. Meanwhile on Switch, I've got to hope that I can find a few of my older games on the eshop, but even then I've got to pay to own the damn games all over again (Seriously stupid having to buy the same game all over again just for another device in the same hardware family).

The Deck definitely has the library and BC advantage over Switch (probably for the rest of it's shelf life).