Switch 2 is a really hard buy. When switch 1 came out it had clear value. There wasn't really anything like it. Kinda hard to recommend now.
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Lots of people have that one N franchise that they will absolutely buy the console to play.
It's weird that Nintendo, after all these years, decided not to gimmick the Hell out of a successor console. I am shocked they resisted the siren song of the second screen.
Yeah I only played Mario and zelda on switch. Two games. Everything else I played on PC because it's just more convenient for me.
I think if I total up all the indie games I purchased on the N store, the delta between it and what I would have spent on Steam easily justifies buying a Deck.
I bought the steam deck at launch and it's easily been one of the best purchases I've ever made.
I use it as a computer on the TV to stream shows, play old games.
I take it on road trips and let the kids watch movies on it.
And I've certainly bought more steam games because of it so I know Valve has gotten their money's worth.
I still play most my games on a desktop hooked up to a tv.
It came down to a decision between a Deck and an Analogue Pocket this year, and while the Pocket is kind of a weird choice, I have a lot of Gameboy nostalgia. The GB and the other FPGA cores are just amazing. You can't even call it "emulation" when it is a logic gate level reproduction of the hardware.
