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Conina on 13 April 2025
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Bofferbrauer2 said:

The hardware price doesn't bother me.

One look at the cheapest Steam Deck with it's cheapest configuration, which costs $399, shows that the Switch 2 is much more powerful and better equipped for just $50 more.

  • The Switch 2 comes with a 1080p screen while the Steam Deck only has an 800p screen. It's also larger than the one on the Deck
  • The cheapest Steam Deck just comes with 64GB of eMMC memory for storage, while the Switch 2 has 256GB of presumably faster storage.
  • the Switch 2 is more powerful and has DLSS as an option; Steam Deck can do FSR but only up to FSR 3.1, which is visually inferior to DLSS 3.x or even 4.0. This is especially helpful when any amount of Raytracing is supposed to happen, as RDNA2 is very weak in that domain.
  • It comes with additional hardware for NFC (Amiibo), the detachable Joycons that can also double as a computer mouse, etc...

So yeah, when you compare both then the price of $450 really makes sense.

The $399 Steam Deck comes with 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD for storage. If the internal storage of the Switch 2 is faster or slower ain't tested so far.

P.S.: I just benchmarked the internal SSD and a microSD card (SanDisk Extreme A2) on my Steamdeck.

The SSD reads sequential up to 3300 MB/s, the microSD card only up to 90 MB/s (so the internal memory is ~35x as fast).
Random reads on SSD up to 520 MB/s... ~52x as fast as the microSD card.

All microSD express cards I found are advertised with "up to 900 MB/s"... don't know if Nintendo uses faster internal memory or wants parity between internal memory and microSD Express cards.

Last edited by Conina - on 13 April 2025