Before Steam Deck, for any game that was available on both Steam and Switch, it was always a question whether the portability was worth more than playing on PC with much better performance, mods, and probably for a cheaper price.
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You could say the same about the other consoles. If anything there's less reason to upgrade those since you know Nintendo isn't going to waste time pushing people to the new console and not spend years durdling with cross gen games.
They will only "already have one" if the games they play are still being released on Switch. Once almost all games are Switch 2 only, then they'll need to upgrade.
The fuck is this Steam Deck shit? You realize Switch 2 is going to outsell the Deck's LTD in pre-orders, right? It's not even a blip to Nintendo.
That's true for now, but there are rumors of both Sony and MS working on handheld machines that, if true, are very likely to release during the Switch 2's lifetime. Which is something the current Switch never had to deal with.
Calm your tits dude. Nobody is saying that Steam Deck will beat Switch 2. But it will undeniably take SOME of their market. And portable gaming PCs (and the Steam platform) are growing rapidly while the console market is shrinking slightly.
I just think it's an incredibly bad bet to think whatever Sony or MS does will matter when it comes to Nintendo. Nintendo is off on their own with a ton of (true) exclusive franchises that are sales juggernauts. Nothing Sony or MS will put out now will rival the run the PSP had and even with the PSP the DS was the 2nd most selling gaming system of all time.
Maybe. But even so I think a handheld that's pushed by Sony/MS has a lot more potential to grab market share than, say, SteamDeck. Even if they "only" sell between 20-40M LTD, those could be potential customers that might have bought a "Switch 2" instead (depending on how similar these supposed devices are).
I do expect a lot of the smaller titles (remasters, remakes, 2D Kirby etc.) to be cross gen for the first couple of years. But there will also be tentpole releases from first and third parties that will be Switch 2 only.
Fixed for you… Lol, Switch only have 8 years on the market, that's the norm.
I'm just not seeing it. DS 2nd best selling system of all time when PSP sold 80 million and no handheld from MS or Sony is going to be anywhere close to as successful as the PSP.
Oh for sure. I'm just viewing it as a potential obstacle to "reach the success of the Switch".
True, as always it's about the games.
Either you live under a rock or don't understand how modern SoCs work. The Tegra X1 has 256 shader cores, while the T239 has 2048 CUDA cores. In pure technical theory, the chip in Switch 2 could deliver 4 TFLOPS, compared to the Switch 1's 0.4 TFLOPS, or a 10x increase.
Any source for that claim? The switch is a hybrid a lot of people use for mobile play. During the pandemic, with a lot of people working at home, stationary consoles should have done better.
The nintendo handheld will be cheaper than a Steam Deck or Rog Ally, and will have the benefit of Nintendo exclusives in addition to that. Why by a Rog Ally, when i get the same games on the Nintendo handheld, looking as good and access to Mario, Zelda etc.
Many gamers have a massive existing Steam library. Plus Steam gamers are usually cheaper and they have some insane sales, as well as the Steam store experience being roughly 1,000,000x more pleasant than the Nintendo eshop ghetto. Plenty of reasons why someone might choose a handheld PC over a Switch 2
