Hi, I’m not very good in this field so I’ll try to be as direct as possible. Not having much experience, I still haven’t been able to choose and I was considering whether to buy a steam deck or the Nintendo switch. Could someone help me? Thank you :3
I have both. Bought the switch first, but now I never use it. Emulating switch games on the deck made it irrelevant (I don’t use the split joycons either, but maybe you might. If so get switch). The ability to play AAA games at a high quality is the reason I would say steam deck. Bought the witcher on switch and I can’t believe how poor it was. On steam deck it’s more or less the exact same version with tuned down resolution and no ray tracing. I could also download regular apps like reddit as well. In essence, steam deck
Steam Deck then wait for Switch 2 with backwards compatibility
Hands down the Steamdeck. The switch is kind of a novelty compared to what it can do, unless you ONLY want to play some Mario and Zelda games. Even then, you still can on the SD.
No matter what you are looking for the Switch will be replaced so either Steamdeck or the next Nintendo 🤷🏻
Deck edges out switch because I’m not a big nintendo exclusive gamer. As far as handheld out of the box, then switch since you don’t hear it as often and it runs cooler and battery time is better.
However, deck can stream GeForce so you can stream cyberpunk with good battery and visuals. Also a lot of fun playing football manager on deck and a lot of ability to tweaks controls.
Choose Steam Deck. Because with Steam Deck, you can
a) grow a library that
b) is future-proof
c) with affordable options and is
d) on a dependable/trustworthy delivery platformSteam Deck. It can emulate switch games and other console games.
Steam deck is much more comfortable to play. The switch joycon things are flat and small and horrendous to hold for long periods.
The Switch is much smaller and lighter.
The Steam deck has access to many, many more games than the switch, and these are usually significantly cheaper to buy than from the Nintendo store.
You can also emulate up to PS3 era games on the Steam deck.
While you can emulate modern Switch games on the deck, tbh I find doing so quite hard. It’s certainly more complex than emulating playstation 1 or N64. So the Switch is the easier console to play new Nintendo games, and games like Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8, and the new Zeldas, are absolutely worth playing.
But honestly, imo the deck wipes the floor with the Switch. It’s so much nicer to play, you can build your dream nostalgia emulation library, you get way more bang for your buck buying games from steam (especially during sales), and you can run much more graphically intensive games than the switch. Plus with some tech know how and patience you can emulate most switch games on the steam deck.