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Re: Gabe Newell: Pricing Valve's Switch-Like Steam Deck Was "Painful"

Ramen756

@WhiteUmbrella
1) the Wii and 3DS products tell a different story. Wii pushed just as many units as the PS3 and Xbox 360 and the DS line beat the PSP so bad Sony left the handheld scene altogether.
2) since many switch players play casually, there really isn’t a need or want to adjust performance for each game. Not going to deny that would be a cool feature though.
3) bold claim that can’t be made when the only footage we have is of a glorified dev kit.

Re: Gabe Newell: Pricing Valve's Switch-Like Steam Deck Was "Painful"

Ramen756

While this is an impressive piece of tech, I don’t think it will affect Nintendo sales all that much. Reason 1) first party games. Nintendo consoles are bought primarily to experience Nintendo games. As long as Nintendo makes games, they will be making consoles that people will get solely to experience those games. Reason 2) in an interview with IGN, this device gets pause between 2 and 8 hours, which really means somewhere in the ballpark of 2 hours to somewhere in the ballpark of 8 hours. Now let’s be honest here since we are all honest about the switch’s hardware limits: you’re going to be getting the bottom end of those 2 hours when you play with the high performance the steam deck claims to achieve. Either do that for maybe 2 hours or you’re gonna primarily play with switch-level performance on the go. Reason 3) as a mobile device, what will be the long-term performance? are steam games optimized for a mobile device? How hot will this thing get while you are playing? When electronics stay hot for long periods of time, the battery degrades faster. How long will this battery last before there is a noticeable decrease in battery capacity? Finally, Sony and Xbox are experiencing drift with their new controllers. Has Valve addressed the drift issue?

Re: Soapbox: Here's How I'd Fix The Pokémon Series

Ramen756

@TheFrenchiestFry actually though. For Halloween I decided to dress up my character and ended up unconsciously dressing her up as Kasumi...and then immediately after that, my dynamax adventures Pokémon was one with an identity crisis and one of my human partners was named “Morgana”. Needless to say, it was a pretty strong sign for me to go back to Royal lol