Re: Gaming.....
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sat Feb 22 2025 09:11 am

I don't really want to buy a better gaming pc until I find out more about the Switch 2.

I am going to throw an unpopular opinion in and declare the SteamDeck made game consoles obsolete.

I used to be a heavy console gamer when I was a kid, back in the day when consoles were plug and play. There was a distinct advantage of consoles over computers, in that consoles were easy to get running and were more reliable. It was rare to attempt to play a game at a party and discover you could not run it for whatever reason. With PC games, this used to be the case.

Now that game consoles behave like traditional computers the only reason to get one is access to excusive games.

Enter the SteamDeck, which is graming grade hardware that offers you both a computer and a close to console experience. If you want to game on the go it is very hard to beat. Heck, with so many videogame giveaways these days, you could purchase the machine today and play free games until it broke off.

I think the only reason to get a Switch or Switch 2 today is playing Nintendo exclusives. Otherwise it does not make much sense.


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Won't hear a contrary opinion from me.

I've not owned a current gen console since the wife bought me one of the xbox models over a decade ago. Steam Deck, on the other hand, was an easy trigger pull vs some gaming laptop for when I travel for work. And more portable to boot.

Yeah, when I force it to display to my 4k monitor at the desk they give me for work, a few games are on minimum specs to run well. Helldivers 2 is, on some maps, more like an impressionist work of art. Adds a fun challenge. But other games like MW5 Mercs was hours of coop fun with the guys while hanging out at the office late or checking in from the hotel. Deep Rock Galactic's graphical style lends it to an easy transition to lower spec machine.

If anything, consoles these days are little more than prebuilt, spec'd computers running some proprietary OS for people who don't want to worry about operating/maintaining a computer.

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