Sorry to disappoint you, but I like Nintendo.

Just not as much and as blindly than others.

No, I'm not surprised at all how many people play or pour money into Candy Crush or other mobile games.  I used to have a co-worker that thought it was weird that I would bring my Nintendo Switch to work to play on lunch break and that I still bought consoles and games at my age.  Yet, there he would be on his work computer during down time playing Candy Crush.  The extremely important thing to bear in mind regarding mobile games is that their userbase already own the device required to play them.  Nobody buys a mobile phone with the intention of using it primarily to play Candy Crush or Coin Master or Clash of Clans, etc.  They already have the phone, and that start downloading apps for time wasters, that for some can develop into wallet drainers.  But, regardless of the whales that each of those games accumulates, none of those people are in the market to purchase a $300 or more dedicated gaming console or handheld.  It's that type of misaligned thinking that gets someone like Tommy Tallarico to claim the Intellivision Amico had "limitless potential" because it would "tap into the mobile market of nearly 2 billion people" (nevermind the fact that the Amico wasn't even a mobile/handheld device...).  Mobile gaming exists completely separate from console and dedicated handheld gaming, because it caters to a userbase of people who already own the required hardware and are mostly looking for something cheap (or so they think until those microtransactions pile up) to waste their time on regardless of gameplay/story/visuals that other gaming media are built around.

Top grossing Android games in Q2 2022

1. Candy Crush Saga – King – $122 millionhttps://media.salon.com/2014/01/candy_crush.jpg" width="381" height="254">
2. Coin Master – Moon Active – $99.2 million
3. Roblox – Roblox Corporation – $68.1 million

The people who sink money into these mobile games, for the most part, aren't going to consider buying a Nintendo Switch or a Steam Deck.  The ones that I know don't even think of themselves as "gamers".

I know that I'm remarking to a comment that wasn't directed at me, but I feel the need to point this out every time the size of the mobile market gets mentioned in relation to the dedicated gaming hardware and software that gets tracked on this website.

On topic, I sometimes think that I might one day like to have a Steam Deck.  But, for me personally, it's not as advantageous as it sounds on the surface.  The games that I play on PC are generally turn based and real time grand strategy games not found on home consoles.  And the more I think about it, I don't think I would enjoy playing that type of a game on a handheld screen.  And, the size of the Steam Deck most certainly is a bigger issue for me in terms of portability compared to the Switch.  I went to the movies yesterday with my wife, and I was able to carry my Switch, without any carrying case, as it slid right into the side pocket of the tracksuit pants (not sure if that's the correct pants style name) I was wearing.  I'm not saying I could carry it in jeans or khakis of course, but it does fit just fine in the style of pants that I often do wear for casual attire.  For smaller pockets, I sometimes detach the joycons, and in cooler weather it slides right into the inner pocket that all of my jackets have.  So for me specifically, that is a plus in the Switch's favor that would not apply to the Steam Deck.

The Switch OLED has a 2015 chip in it. The Steam Deck has a much newer chip in it. Did you forget about the chip shortages? There was zero business incentive to make it more powerful. It's already less profitable than the v2 Switch and the Lite.

Do you think they are required to release a more powerful Switch model like a Switch pro?

Nobody is lying here.

You gotta at least share the problems with Steam Deck like the Nintendo fans(i'm one of them) shared the numbers of problems other than performance/resolution with the Switch for the facts and opinions as well, then the criticism will certainly go away.

Why am i saying this? Cause today i've met someone brought his Steam Deck in a game retailer, i asked him for opinion on Steam Deck then he harshly answered what he just said like this "I've been manipulated by the fanboys" then explained the problems as he talked about the problems with the Switch, PS5 and Xbox Series X.

Is there a straightforward way to connect an external monitor and/or keyboard to Steam Deck? 

Quite straight forward. Get a USB C hub with USB A and HDMI out. Plug the USB C into the Deck and from the hub, plug in the HDMI cable and other end into the display. Other USB peripherals will be recognized when plugged into the free ports.

You can get ones with power delivery (PD) 2.0 and 3.0 input, so you can use it and charge the Deck at the same time. Just be mindful that it has to support 45W PD charging.

Of course I don't like everything about the Steam Deck and I have no problem talking about that:

F. e. in March I wrote some negative points I dislike about the Steam Deck:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/21/#3

Here I wrote about some PC games which didn't run correctly on the Steam Deck:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/21/#7

Here I complained about some graphic glitches and the small text of Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam Deck:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/22/#9

Here I wrote about GTA games which didn't run without tweaking:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/23/#1

Here I made fun of the Steam Deck due to the slow adoption rate in the Steam survey (only 0.0054% of the total Steam hardware base were Steam Decks in March):
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/24/#1

Here I wrote that the loading tines from SSD aren't much faster than from microSDs:
https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/245008/the-official-steam-deck-thread/25/#9

Since then, there were no more complaints to add, because I hadn't any new problems.

And some of the things I disliked got a lot better since then:

- no fan noise while the system is idling in the Steam-OS menues due to a less aggressive fan curve
- less fan noise while gaming due to the new fan curve and my TDP-limit settings
- better battery life due to my TDP-limit and the added 40fps/40Hz mode
- improved game compatibility due to new Proton versions
- improved download speeds due to firmware/OS updates

Oh... one time in the half year I had my Steam Deck it didn't recharge. Didn't happen again, but there's another complaint.

So, what are the problems he had with the Steam Deck?

Nice!

Bolded: He had a problem with the expandable storage for the SSD, he wanted upgrade from 256GB to 2TB for the heavy weight games such as FFXV, FFVII Remake, Mortal Kombat 11 to eliminate long loading times and bottlenecking, the little 2TB SSD does exist in the market? Though he has a 1TB microSD installed ready to load up some indie games(or legacy games).

And second problem, i think he wished Epic Games should not moneyhat the publishers for timed exclusives specially Square-Enix lol

P.S. We're going to share some problems with the Nintendo Switch later. The Joy-Con drift is still indeed popular topic from what i reading at.

True. I might've jumped the gun and generalized too much from examples. But overall this statement isn't needed for my overarching argumentative line bolstered with past handhelds which sold and based around the perception, that people usually tend to form a bell curve around a sweet spot in regards to their preferences.