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Handheld gaming PCs won't put much of any dent to the Switch/ Switch Successor's success.

People are primarily buying the Switch to play Nintendo games on the TV and on the Go. Something like the Steam Deck can't conveniently offer.

I hear alot of people hyping up the fact that the Steam Deck could "emulate Switch games" and how it could make the Switch useless. However, a vast majority of people do not know or want to know how to emulate games on a Handheld gaming PC as for many people the process of emulating games seems to complicated with too many steps for the average consumer to want to deal with. If emulating Switch games on a Steam Deck was that easy then we should see people choosing the Steam Deck over the Switch since it has ALL the multiplats and Switch games but we aren't.

For fucks sake many people didn't even know the Wii U existed you think that they'll know or want to know how to emulate Switch games on a handheld gaming PC?? Hell no, the average consumer would 99.9999/100 times rather just skip the hassle of trying to emulate games and just buy a Switch.

Yes Handheld gaming PCs will likely be more powerful that the Switch which pretty much all the multiplats with some not coming to Switch. However, most people won't buy a handheld PC over a Switch because:

-People don't want to spend that kind money on a portable only device that could only play games that they could already get on PS/Xbox/PC and even switch at times.