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Steam Deck now has thousands more games than the Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml

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[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And non of the games on Steam are Nintendo games. Sure you’d could use an emulator but the average mainstream casual gamer can’t be bothered to learn how to do that. And Nintendo is a much better known brand than Steam with the casual crowd. Nintendo is not really competing with Steam. Smart phones, which most people already have and the games are free, are a much bigger threat to Nintendo than the Steam Deck.

[-] noctisatrae@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

It clearly underpins your opinion that Nintendo has been trying to enter the mobile market.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

What do you mean 'enter'? Nintendo created one of the first handheld gaming devices that ever existed, and they've been known for handheld devices all the way through their history.

[-] linuxjj@mastodon.social 0 points 10 months ago

@rainynight65 @noctisatrae never heard of the Atari Lynx, have you?

[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

I specifically said 'one of the first'.

But if you want to be nitpicky, the Lynx was released two months after the original Gameboy.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

At this point, anyone with the tech knowledge to have purchased a steam deck can install and run emudeck in like 15 minutes. You just go over to desktop, download and install the single package, put roms in the correct folders, then run the program and everything is already sorted into collections with you can find in the game mode library.

[-] java@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

anyone with the tech knowledge

That rules out most of the people.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

I install it for my friends and no, "most people" cannot do this because booting into desktop mode and using dolphin sounds easy but its not for folks who just want it to work easy like a switch. Desktop mode is for power users and most console/pc owners are not power users.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

Lol, wut? "Steamdeck desktop mode is for power users" starting 2024 with a strong dumbest tech take, I'm going to have to look hard for this to get beat.