Switch runs on an ARM processor.... Switch has 4gb Shared memory.... Switch likely lacks many of the Drivers and Libraries steam games need to run... you can't just run PC games on a Switch.

Half of them you can't even run on Linux.

I am pretty sure the "Steam App" you're going on about is nothing more than a streaming app. The Shield will not be able to run Steam games natively on the device.

Just imagine the licensing nightmare that must be.

Idk if u were playing attention or not but the demo was going to Nvidia's cloud servers emulating and streaming a cloud based PC which can stream steam games that you have purchased onto your device. Basically its like renting a gaming PC that has input lag.

If people want that, they would have to pay $25 for 20 hours of play according to Nvidia themselves for the base experience.

So could Geforce Now be on the Switch that allows that? Sure... But would anyone want to pay $25 for 20 hours of play in addition to having to buy the game itself? Fuck no...

And no, there won't be a steam app on the Switch itself that allows for PC games to run natively on the Switch... The so called "steam app" they showed basically opened up GeForce Now and went to their cloud servers and played games via streaming.

If we are really lucky, maybe they will use the subscription based GeForce Now but that has a very limited selection of games

That's not too difficult to overcome. Microsoft and Apple both have experience with binary translators. Microsoft even recently announced an ARM to x86 binary translator for Windows 10.

This thread fails at "3rd parties". Historically speaking, easy to program or port, haven't really been keys to success.

Starting with NES, the vast majority of NES games came from Japan, where the NES hardware wasn't familiar to devs, unlike in the west, where Commodore, Atari and Apple had used similar hardware.
N64 and Playstation had similar hardware (being a bitch to develope for). And judging by the games drought N64 had, nobody ported or developed games for N64.
GC was familiar to all the 90's PC devs, as back in the day the PC games included Mac, and these devs didn't make games on it or port the old games. PS2, that had hardware like N64/PSX had the games.
Wii is a different beast, but all the devs did was to whine and bitch about the hardware - despite, lots of games.
Wii U should've been easy to port 360 games on it, but didn't happen.

When there's sales, that's when the third parties will be there, no matter how hard or easy it is. If it was about how easy it is to port or develope, PS2 should not have had games at all.
Switch, however, is using ARM, that hould be familiar to virtually all devs today, because all the mobile/handheld devices are using it.

Another problem is, that if we already have Windows and two consoles running PC games, where do we need a third console running the same games. People who did not buy PS4 wouldn't be buying Switch if all it did was to play the same games. And for the people who bought PS4's, Switch would be obsolete.

Oh you are thinking about STREAMING GAMES from your PC to your Switch. Yes it would be possible, but Nintendo will never allow that lol.

And how well does that work with demanding games? By the way, Microsoft's new try is for new Snapdragon-SoCs only, not for Tegras:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3149562/microsoft-windows/microsoft-and-qualcomm-bring-x86-apps-to-arm-based-devices.html

outrageous prediction

if Nintendo put STEAM products on their own device they would not only be competing against themselves with that move BUT also with the STEAM box consoles that are already out there.

doesn't make sense

It's an intriguing thought, but it's never gonna happen