Comment on What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2
MimicJar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The opening of the article gets it wrong but is so close to realizing it.
I stopped buying most games for my Nintendo Switch the day I bought a Steam Deck.
I did not.
My Switch has been a Mario and Zelda machine ever since.
That’s why I did not. Switch has the exclusive.
It’s simple: the Steam Deck took the Switch’s best trick — pick-up-and-play portability
That’s a great feature, but the best is the games.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I actually fully agree with the article on all of those points. I generally stopped buying switch games after I got the deck, titles like TotK sit barely played on my switch because I couldn’t pull myself away from the Deck for long enough to play it.
Part of it is size, the switch is really uncomfortable in my hands, but the biggest reason is I share the switch with my kids, where the deck is exclusively my device.
As for the sleep resume feature, it’s literally the biggest reason I play on a switch/deck over my desktop PC. Having my own dedicated game system that offers the option to instantly stop or start a game session is the killer feature that has let me play games again. The switch stopped being a viable option for that once I had to share it with my kids, because I would put a game to sleep, and they would close it to launch their own game.