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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 6 points 17 hours ago

One is an open ecosystem of decades worth of games, especially with the emulated ones and the other is a walled garden of over-priced games. Yeah, I am sticking to my steam deck.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

two gaming handhelds both released in 2025 have comparable performance? The hell you say

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I’m glad money is of no concern for you but one device costs twice as much as the other :)

[–] LapGoat@pawb.social 1 points 1 minute ago

switch 2 games are much more expensive than games on pc, plus i get access to my entire library with the a pc handheld versus just my switch library.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

That’s a really weirdly passive aggressive way to respond. I don’t want either of these devices, but you posted a shit article about nothing.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It feels like Nintendo is a lot like apple. It doesn't matter if it's a worse product than their competitors, their users have accepted the walled garden wholly.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Gotta love the catharsis of emulating Nintendo's flagships on competing products, though. Hard to do that for Apple's hardware (although less relevant).

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 22 hours ago

I had a buddy who would buy old apple computers, switch them to Linux so he could open a window of windows on an apple. That's kinda like what you suggested only backwards. lol

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Considering the Steam Deck is the PC handheld market leader, doesn't run the bloat that is Windows 11, and is vastly cheaper than the Ally X, I'm really confused on why they didn't include it in the comparison. Literally not even a mention of the Steam Deck in the article.

The Ally X is a really, really bad value proposition compared to the Steam Deck. A 3-way comparison would have been much more interesting.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Because this is a PR fluff piece bought and paid for by Nintendo.

[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 2 points 15 hours ago

They might not even need to pay for it and just do it to avoid getting blacklisted.

I can't take articles like this seriously because the guy publishes up to 5 of them a day. I know that it is their job and they get advance copies to play before release day, and they have assistants.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nintendo...not even pirated. I refuse to even contribute to their popularity given their litigiousness and patent bullshittery.

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Their switch 2 games are pretty meh so far anyways, they've been on a downhill trend for a while

[–] missingno@fedia.io 8 points 23 hours ago

We've reached the point of diminishing returns on hardware. IMO, anything that can't run on Switch 2 probably deserves to be scaled back anyway.