Topic: Is The Switch 2 Worth It???

There's so many reasons to recommend a Steam Deck over Switch 2 depending on what's important to you.

Benefits of Steam Deck:

• You can play games from any storefront. Indie games from itch.io, or DRM free games from GOG, for example.
• You can modify controls in any way you want. You can even make the trackpads or sticks trigger UI elements with hotkeys you specify. All shareable online, so you can also use shared presets if you want.
• You can mod games
• The games you buy for it aren't held hostage in the future when you upgrade your hardware and want to utilise its full potential for your existing games library, unlike Switch where most titles require the developer to specifically update their old games to fully utilise the Switch 2 hardware, and usually, you have to pay them something for it.
• You get to change the settings in games. Don't mind shorter battery life for better visuals that demand higher power draw? You can change it. Particularly nice when at home and the console is connected to power.
• Don't like the tradeoffs the developers made for Steam Deck? Again, you can change it. Maybe you don't care so much about fidelity and just want to hit 60 fps rather than 30.
• It's a computer you have full access to. You can boot into desktop mode and have a desktop OS to work with for anything you need, like running modded Minecraft via Prism, or using it for game development on the go, like me.
• It's your hardware and you have full control over all its features, down to the operative system you run on it. It's completely open.

Depending on how much these things matter to you, Steam Deck might have significant benefits over Switch 2.

Another subjective benefit to me is the ergonomics: Steam Deck is very comfortable in my hands despite the size, and the placement of the sticks are so much better for my hands. Switch 2 is uncomfortable at best. Again, very subjective, but it's a significant pain point in my case with S2.

@Misima the GabeCube is going to expensive tho. I think it was Digital Foundry who met with them and asked about the price and if it's be console priced like 500 bucks and they acted shocked to be asked the question. I think it specs out as a little weaker than the PS5 base unit. If both those things are not true I'm getting one. Like if it was a little stronger than the PS5 pro and around 700 hundred I'd be down. But I bet it'll be closer to a 1000 and not as strong as a series x or ps5