Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

[Paperboy_J]

Conina said:

Chrkeller said:

Obviously I meant switch is nothing without Nintendo exclusives just like the ps5 is nothing without Sony exclusives.  Exclusives move hardware, it isn't a hard concept to follow.

Good + great games also move hardware. And the Steam Deck will have lots of them, even without going down the emulation rabbit hole. Exclusivity doesn't make a game better or worse.

Switch already has an awesome library with over 100 great games with a MetaScore of 85+ and over 300 good games with a MetaScore of 80+... that's much better than any handheld before.

Well, the PC library has over 500 great "85+" games and over 1200 good "80+" games. Not all of them will work on SteamOS but many of them will... proton compatibility is of course focused on the good games, not the bad games.

We can probably play all these games on Steam Deck:

• all Portal games
• all Half-Life games (except Alyx)
• all GTA games
• all Mass Effect games
• all Elder Scrolls games
• all Fallout games
• all Witcher games
• all Final Fantasy games
• all Doom games
• all Quake games
• all Wolfenstein games
• all BioShock games
• all Borderlands games
• most Assassin's Creed games
• all Dishonored games
• all Batman Arkham games
• all Deus Ex games
• all Civilization games
• all Remedy games
• all Resident Evil games
• Disco Elysium
• Metal Gear Solid V
• many many more

And that's another thing I wanted to point out to SteamDeck fans, particularly the ones who think it will hurt Nintendo is...  MOST NINTENDO FANS DON'T WANT OR NEED EVERY GAME UNDER THE SUN!  Most Switch fans are happy with what the systems offers, and don't need much more than that.  Seriously, unless you're planning to spend every waking moment playing videogames, who has time for all that?