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@Arawn93 You have the grammar of a toddler. No wonder you're so shockingly insistent that low-range mobile hardware from 2015 can remotely compete with a dedicated APU from half a decade later. 😂😂😂

@Arawn93 holy cope and seethe, if you're going to make a claim like that you could at least mention the YouTubers.

No amount of "console optimization" is going to result in the switch's basically 2015 hardware out-competing the steam deck in any meaningful capacity. You're just delusional at this point.

@Preposterous I keep seeing this brought up a lot, but the steam decks battery life estimate is the same as the original launch model switch, the one that we had up until 2019.

As somebody whose switch is an original launch model, I'm not bothered by the battery life on it or the steam deck.

Why is this suddenly an issue of first party versus third party when it's an issue regardless?
This is about being able to own your games on the console. Fact of the matter is most third-party games, which constitutes the vast majority of games, on the switch require massive patches for the various reasons stated above.
You keep trying to make all these exceptions or exclusions when at the end of the day you don't own most of the full game anymore on the cartridge. Plain and simple.

You mean content that would have been in the game at launch a decade ago but they decided to cut so that they could plan content updates.

Still boggles my mind that the coffee shop was added in a later update how lazy can they be lol

Is Pokemon not a first party Nintendo game?

@Troll_Decimator Basically any game over 20gb, after compression, such as doom and the Witcher 3.

Games that are too big to fit on the cart
Or games that have last minute patches because they're making last minute bug fixes before lunch or trying to combat piracy leaking the games early, such as some of the Pokemon games.

Nowadays, Owning a cartridge is like owning part of the game most of the time. Thankfully, if you do some stuff to your switch that Nintendo might not like and might sue you over, then you can really back it up and make it yours.

But in reality there's not much difference between a bunch of bits on a hard drive and a bunch of bits on a cartridge, especially if you buy from DRM free outlets like yorumi pointed out.

@Dirty0814 do you recall what level of comparative performance the switch had when it released in 2017? Because it sure wasn't anywhere close to a PS4 or even an Xbox One.
It was, and still is, just nominally stronger than a PS3. That's why many people have been clamoring for literally anything that's a jump over the switch at a price that isn't crazy like current handheld PCs are and were massively disappointed when Nintendo announced the OLED instead of a pro last June because the way you said people will feel about the deck in 3 years is the way people have felt about the switch for at least 2.

*I am legally obligated by the SEC to disclose that I own a 50% stake in valve.