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javi741 on 22 September 2022
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zero129 said:
javi741 said:

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.

Bolded: You plug in a USB dock and a hdmi cable now you can play steamdeck on tv or on the go.

Bolded 2: once again how is it a portable only device? and what kind of money are we talking about here?, the Steamdeck only costs like 50 more then the Switch OLED. it can also be plugged into a tv or used on the go. Seems to me your getting the device mixed up, read fud getting your self mixed up about what the device can and cant do and now spread fud about it.

You can play your steam deck on the TV, but that costs extra money since you need a USB C to HDMI adapter which costs around 20$ more, so the argument that its just 50$ more than the Switch Oled to be used on the TV & Go is invalid. You'll also need a separate gamepad to play it on the TV/Monitor which would potentially cost more money if the consumer doesn't have another gamepad. 

While playing this on the TV is a nice option to have, think about it, most people who will be interested in a Steam deck will likely already own a PC, PS, or Xbox, places where they could easily play all their multiplat games on a TV or monitor and platforms where they likely already spent a lot on games for it, making Steam Deck's ability to play games on the TV practically useless. So for most consumers the Steam Deck's ability to connect to the TV won't add much of any value when they most likely already have a PS/Xbox/PC to play games on the TV. So essentially they'd have to pay 400$+ for a device they'd almost exclusively use as a portable device which isn't very appealing to many people.

The Switch of course doesn't apply to this because its cheaper than the Steam Deck where you could play games on the TV for more than 100$ cheaper if you choose the regular Switch model, and if a consumer wanted to play games exclusively portabley they could get the Switch Lite which is 200$ cheaper. Also, the Switch is the only convenient place to play Nintendo games on the TV, something that PS/Xbox/PC cant replace. Making the Switch far more appealing.