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Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement (updated: Valve fixed it) (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Well really, the question is "What does this handheld console actually play?"

Deck: anything you want within hardware reason Switch: Nintendo roms (they apparently don't even ship hardware carts now I guess?)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Huh? Go to any Walmart and you'll see loads of physical copies. Switch 2 is even confirmed to use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I guess I would consider a switch 2 after they have a few great first party games.

  • Mario Kart
  • 3d Mario
  • 2d Mario
  • big Zelda game
  • Pokémon game that isn’t terrible and overly easy.
  • 3d Metroid
  • 2d Metroid

I would need a decent number of these items to be on the system before I considered it.