sc94597 said:
Yep. FSR4 is breathing some life back into it and staving off some of the concerns of there not being any decent new PC handheld hardware. Having said that, a lot of 9th Generation feature heavy titles run poorer on it than Switch 2. Star Wars Outlaws (and probably Indiana Jones too when it releases) being examples. I bought my LCD Steam Deck when it launched, and gave it to my partner to get into PC gaming once I got a Rog Ally Z1e (about a year later.) Definitely a great device with great design decisions. |
I think you will always get fixed platform optimisations for consoles like Switch 2 where they approach a problem by scaling down the game engine to work well on weaker hardware. There are so many variations of PC hardware that will never happen. You do get many low spec gamer or potato gamer patches for pc games. I remember playing Fallout 4 on my Celeron laptop with only 4GB. I used the low texture patches, a low display resolution and potato options and got it running more for a laugh than anything and managed to get about 22 fps at best with 12 fps being the average. I remember playing many ports on Xbox 360 and PS3 but the full experience of those games was on PC. Maybe I've got the wrong impression but it does seem the Steamdeck is delivering a game experience as good if not better than Switch 2 for multi-platform games. Maybe I have watched too many youtube videos with a pro steamdeck bias.
