It most certainly is competing with Switch. I have the regular Switch and I’ve been waiting for the Switch “Pro” but when the Oled version was announced, I decided to upgrade and sell my old Switch. However, after seeing what Steam Deck was capable of, I changed my mind and put a deposit down for the Deck instead. It…

I mean, I’m a hardcore gamer with a gaming PC, Switch and PS5.. and I reserved a Steam Deck. Why?

The scenario you just illustrated is the core brilliance of the Switch. It’s a portable steam machine. Every game that isn’t a AAA shooter or a paradox strategy game seems to eventually come to Switch and 95% of the time you have little to no performance hit. Looking at my Switch library, there’s about 25 games that I…

I’m actually likely to buy the $400 model. This is exactly what I’ve wanted for quite some time: a premium device for in-house handheld streaming. I’d say that, in the past year, at least 50% of my gaming has been done with my phone+Razer Kishi. It works great, but I want a more robust, dedicated solution. I also love…

Yeah right out of the box. the Switch barely felt good enough to run its games at times, even ones that were specifically built to run on it. Dont even get me started on how shitty the Joy Cons are and somehow are more expensive to replace than actual good controllers, like for the XBOX or Playstation

You may not know who this is for, but signing up to get one has been really competitive already. The servers are overloaded and I can’t get through and the high-end model is already out to q2 2022 already. So, clearly there are enough of us to move some units. 

Yikes, and I thought Twitter bozos were bad.

Considering the Steam servers crashed almost immediately after the reservations went up, there's plenty of people aware of it.

I would say that Sony’s offerings only failed in meeting the expectations they had.  The PSP and Vita sold more than respectably, despite Sony’s bizarre attempts at self-sabotage.  But Sony decided they were failures because they didn’t “win" the sales numbers, and so here we are.

Obviously, this is mostly for people who already have a Steam library (I have heard there is a number of those). And they will know about the Deck - I just saw its ad in the Steam client.

Please, point on this doll where PC gamers hurt you.

I’m the exact opposite. It stinks when an cool looking indie game is only on Switch. It’s nice that it’s portable, but I’ll take ANY reason not to use my Switch. It always feels like it is merely ‘good enough’ to use. It has never felt optimal to me. People can ‘love’ it all they want, but it’s just not a particularly…

That won’t push me to buy any new revision though, as I expect it’ll work just fine on the base model.

Many people including myself have Steam accounts that are decades old by this point, not to mention all of the other digital games that have been bought on different platforms.

The Switch Deck, by Valve’s own admission, is pricey.

I know more than a few people who don’t have a gaming PC, but would also like to play Visual Novels and old JRPGs that are on Steam, but not on Switch.

Maybe not the Switch as hardware (since Nintendo has its exclusives) But it is without a doubt competing with Nintendo’s e-Shop. 80% of the games I’ve bought on the Switch I would have bought on Steam to use with a Steam Deck, without a doubt. If enough people feel that way, that could be a huge hit to their software…

But it’s also just as common for folks to abstain from purchasing any given game until it lands on the quirky Nintendo hardware.

This entire article is is emblematic of why Nintendo fans can be so insufferable. The prices are close enough and they serve a similar enough dungeon that they absolutely are in competition with one another,  to think that Nintendo is somehow immune from competition simply because they're Nintendo is ignorant at best. 

Counterpoint: They are in DIRECT competition.