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[Darkness_Arises]

Disagree on the Steam Deck, sold mine because it was such a cumbersome, lugubrious beast to use.

I haven't used a Switch 2 yet.

As someone who owns both, the Steam Deck is infintely more comfortable in the hands than the S2. A properly thick handheld with properly sized joysticks and bigger battery was on the cards, but Nintendo stuck with the ergonomic nightmare of a design that they came up with nearly a decade ago, replete with the same tiny Vita-style joysticks.

 

[Buggy Loop]

You are forgetting that this is also the Steam OLED, which got a memory bandwidth upclock to 102.8 gb/s (the original was 88.8 gb/s). Switch 2 is 66 GB/s in handheld mode, efficiency wise it's not even damn close.

Finally watching video, I didn't think they picked the OLED Steam deck, so that's even more powerful than the OG.

 

[LordOcidax]

To Nintendo Switch 2 haters…

 

[Kataploom]

Finally watching video, I didn't think they picked the OLED Steam deck, so that's even more powerful than the OG.

Isn't it just more efficient due to lower node process?

 

[Xdrive05]

I'd like to see Rich do one of these comparisons but with his RTX 2050 laptop he used to try to estimate the Switch 2's performance a while back.

It would be neat to see how that kit ended up comparing to the real thing.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Isn't it just more efficient due to lower node process?

Bandwidth boost (all handhelds currently are limited) got a performance boost on OLED model

 

[Windom Earle]

4xAF lmao

 

[Nvzman]

A new arm processor is faster and more power efficient than an x86 apu from 6 years ago???

Except it's not new, it's an Nvidia APU made around basically the same time as the Aerith AMD APU (2020-2021-ish)

As someone who owns both, the Steam Deck is infintely more comfortable in the hands than the S2. A properly thick handheld with properly sized joysticks and bigger battery was on the cards, but Nintendo stuck with the ergonomic nightmare of a design that they came up with nearly a decade ago, replete with the same tiny Vita-style joysticks.

While I agree the Deck's bigger, fuller ergonomics make it more comfortable for gaming, I can actually comfortably game in bed with the Switch 2 at night, which I absolutely can not with the Deck. The Deck feels heavier and more unwieldily, it's uncomfortable to prop up with your arms alone compared to the Switch 2. I also fucking despised the Switch 1 handheld ergonomics so the S2 being actually usable with big hands is a massive upgrade for me.

Utterly irrelevant, as thanks to the cheapskates that Nintendo are, the cheap ass, low capacity battery in the S2 lasts as long as the Steam Deck in spite of the 3 fold reduction in power consumption.

I disagree with the battery being a "cheapskate" move, the Switch 2 is like 1/3 of the thickness of the Steam Deck, I think it was more a choice of ergonomic design. The S2 would've likely been bulky as hell with a larger battery setup, which doesn't work right with the joycon design and whatnot. Considering the Pro Controller and Joycons themselves have excellent battery life compared to competing hardware, I highly doubt Nintendo deliberately put in a tiny battery to be cheap.

Plus, the Deck OLED is $100 (with the larger battery) more than the Switch 2, which is the one getting two and a half hours. The OG Deck barely can last an hour and 15 minutes playing Cyberpunk.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Just finished video

The image quality is not even comparable, even with lord and savior github tinkering for XeSS in the end

That's a nail in the coffin

 

[Zathalus]

Just finished video

The image quality is not even comparable, even with lord and savior github tinkering for XeSS in the end

That's a nail in the coffin

For portable? Native resolution works, as those settings are lower than the Steam Deck preset, so no FSR or XeSS needed. Docked is naturally not even comparable, Steam Deck will never match that.

 

[LordOcidax]

Just finished video

The image quality is not even comparable, even with lord and savior github tinkering for XeSS in the end

That's a nail in the coffin

Agree, this debate is over. For me was pretty obvious weeks ago… A W for the Switch 2. But some people are not going to take the L.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Steam Deck is a niche product that almost no one owns. Who cares about it?

 

[Karim]

To Nintendo Switch 2 haters…