Nope, sorry, it doesn't just work. Many games, you just install them on Steam and want to play, then they wont start by the steam luncher. You troubleshoot it and you get the info that you manually have to download community made patches that might or might not work etc.
Seem to be the same thing with Deck as it is with Steam on Windows, just worse. As I said, I'm not interested in wasting my time on such things, I prefer to play on console where everything just works by default. I don't care if the game costs 29.99 on Steam while 59.99 on console, I'm just happy that it always just works on consoles like Switch. But I do think Deck might be a just fine product for PC-players who are very used to coping with the mess anyway.
Yeah, Switch with some kind of silicon grips on the joy-cons and it's OK for playing handheld for an hour or two. But I always turn it tabletop if I plan to play undocked for prolonged periods, like 2-3hrs. I hate the feeling of making the Switch super-long like with Hori Split Pad, it feels like a snowboard. As you say, Switch already reaches the upper limit for what size I can accept for a handheld. Deck is almost twice the mass and over 600 grams...
For me, the Deck is just jack of all trades that just doesn't get any of it right. While the Switch is just small enough to be somewhat convenient to take on the go, Deck is about as portable as a 15-inch laptopwith no battery life. As Switch is comfortable even for long portable play thanks to table top-mode with the kickstand, Deck is handheld-only and can therefor in my opinion only be used with comfort for like 30 minutes or so. Renders it kinda bad for portable play...which is a real problem as it's clearly designed for that in mind. Further more, it doesn't neither get the docked play right. No dock included, and also inconvenient to "switch" between docked an portable, as it doesn't work with a slide-in dock as the Nintendo Switch.
And for some reason they cheaped put on the display even on the 649USD premium version....why???
Im gonna skip the Deck. I don't like Steam, it's messy and inconvenient, and the Deck seem to be more of that, were you have to consult guides and stuff just to get the games running. Not for me as a console gamer.
Further more, doesn't interest me in the slightest if Switch "only" has 10.000 games while Steam has 100.000 games. Switch has more great games than I have time to play anyway, so I'm not buying another console just to get even more games to my backlog.
"greed" to take criminals to court xD Whats wrong with the philosophy of Adults taking responsibility for their own actions? Bowser Spending a year or two in jail won't ruin or end his life. He has the choice to turn things around when he gets out.
Everyone makes up history as they want it to be. Im not religious, I don't believe I will be up on judgement day because I didn't take side with criminals... xD
I do however believe that the rule of law is the only way to live if we want a somewhat peaceful society. It will probably do this Bowser-guy good to spend a couple of years inside. At least if he got a working brain in his head and are prepared to make a living in an honest way in the future.
Nope, as far as I know, Nintendo haven't done anything major immoral since the 90's cartel price control in EU. Nintendo creates jobs and values in peoples lives, taking criminals to court is something good that every honest citizen should appreciate. Criminals are like parasites who weakens and poisons our society.
lol, so it's still Evil to want Law & Order? Some of the teen-communists on the internet makes it sound like Nintendo tortures this guy and other pirates. He will never pay anything of what he owes Nintendo, he will do a couple of years in jail, go on parole and do a dept restrucruring. After that, he will probably fall back into life of crime again and do a couple of more years in jail. BUHU, big corporate Nintendo so bad for taking criminals to court! Defund the police, let everyone have everything for free, corporations are insured etc etc etc. xD
Yeah, I can see that. That Phil Spencer-guy is one of the best personalities that's happened the gaming industry in recent years. Funny how it might bring Activision support to Switch with the company owned by Microsoft/Xbox, while as an independent third-party, they gave Switch minimal support.
Nope, it's equal bad of a crime stealing from a wealthy corporation as from a struggling one. There is no robin hood-excuses for any type of crime. We can't start giving criminals excuses because they rob a wealthy old lady in the streets instead of a poor one.
We agree on that violent crimes should be punished harsher. But the solution is not to be softer on theft and that sort of crimes, There is big, big problems with that type of crime in the US. The correct way to go about it is tougher on crime across the board, especially violent crimes. We need to start locking up lifestyle criminals for life. 3 times and you're out, that's a very good policy.
Crime is on the rise, have you completely missed that? This is no time to speak for softening up. We have people setting in system of mass-looting. It's on the brink of mutiny. It's really the time now to set the foot down and lock 'em up.
What the company is worth hasn't anything to do with it, you don't get a free pass to commit crimes against big companies because they make money. And one wrong doesn't make another wrong right. If the penalties for sexual assault is too light, then the way of correcting it is not to make penalties for theft lighter. The correct way is to be tougher on crime across the board.
I don't get it. Why would anyone take a criminal in defense because he "went against a big company"? It's like taking the rioters in California in defense because they steal from companies. I rather take those companies in defense rather than crims that think the world owes them a living.
I actually have no problems at all with Goldeneye controls even today when I play it on my good ol' 64. I find them actually to be easier than modern console FPS, as by the shooting gallery-like game design, you don't really do much aiming.
I really hope Nintendo and Microsoft makes the real deal here, and brings it to both Switch and Gamepass with onlineplay and united player pool. I really miss classic non-Call of Duty FPS multiplayer like Goldeneye...
I think OG Switch pretty much is at the limit in what I can accept for a portable system when comes to bulkiness/size, wight and batterylife. Deck is a good idea, but as it's just too big, plus only digital, with 2 hrs battery life. I think it should probably be sent back to the writing table. 64GB is really Nothing when it can't take any physical games. Nintendo Switch only works for me as the majority of the bigger games I own are on cartridge.
It works as crime declined greatly in most of US when more or less general tough on crime-policys was introduced in the 90's. Sure, the criminals has been locked up in great numbers since then, but that's not a problem. Criminals paying for their crimes is NOT a problem, it's proof that the policing actually works and gets results. US is a greatly diverse country, there will always be high crime in a country like that compared to small northern countries. That can't be changed. The important thing is that it works to lock criminals up. They can't do crimes in the society while being locked up.
Im pretty sure that tough on crime do work. As long as people know the rules, that their particular criminal lifestyle might result in doing serious jail time, then I can hardly see how it's unfair or morally wrong to sentence them harshly. They have the option to quit the lifestyle of crime.
Criminals stop doing crimes, then we don't have to lock people up. Things were A LOT worse in the US in the 70s-80s when there were no tough on crime-policys. Imprisoning criminals isn't really the problem. That we can see now when California lets thieves off, crime skyrockets.
If Nintendo lost money or not, that I'd say you don't know. I'd say there is a good chance they lost a lot of money by a substantial number of Switch-owners downloaded/pirated their games for free instead of paying for them. Nintendo got a solid case here.
He should pay off Facebook and Twitter too, so they'll take down any information about bad things at Activision as "desinformation" and "Harmful information".
Just stating facts. Either you're a fanboy, or you simple don't remember how the games looked like back in the PS3 days. Either way, try not to get so angry. It's not good for you...
Very few other AAA-games comes even close to some of the rendering-tech of the nature elements i Botw.
Hall effect sensors does have something called time drift. Meaning they probably won't have drift in the same meaning as Switch, PS5, Xbox etc, but they might however get lower accuracy over time
Id say no PS3, PS4, PS5 game to date matches the physics-driven environmental detail like Botw, with it's grass, water physics when raining etc. Ofc. not because they can't do it, but because most of the Sony studios prioritizes other graphic details. Just compare Botw with Horizon zero dawn, the PS4-game does look a lot better in texture detail and stuff, but the world is totally static...
Never liked it, "Kit and Krysta" never felt genuine, gave the feeling of just corporate PR-people trying to do a fake gaming YT-channel. I miss the good ol' days with Club Nintendo.
Anyways, there are so many good YT-Nintendo channels out there, without being officially Nintendo, just done by real gaming enthusiasts.
It pretty much tells me that Im sticking to the 299USD Switch. It gives me all the games I need and good enough graphics and performance. I see no reason what so ever to pay 1299 for any console in the world...
Not True. See no reson getting a game like two point hospital on PS4 instead of Switch...pretty huge deal being able to play it both on tv and handheld..
lol
This would have been so much better if they only ported the original versions, bumped the resolutions and made them 60fps. New game engine and "modernized gameplay" didn't add any value to this package of garbage whatsoever.
Goldeneye with online multiplayer might be enough for me to opt-in on the expansion pack. If I also could get the N64 controller. Been a good 20 years since I last stood in that window on the complex level, firing the screaming rockets at Oddjob.
@WallyWest Hitman 3 is cloud only, according to the developer simply because they didn't have the manpower to port it to Switch. I got no doubts that Switch could handle Hitman 3 natively if they would invest the money and around a year of work.
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Re: Round Up: The Reviews Of Valve's Steam Deck Are In - What's It Like Compared To Switch?
@Yorumi
Nope, sorry, it doesn't just work. Many games, you just install them on Steam and want to play, then they wont start by the steam luncher. You troubleshoot it and you get the info that you manually have to download community made patches that might or might not work etc.
Seem to be the same thing with Deck as it is with Steam on Windows, just worse. As I said, I'm not interested in wasting my time on such things, I prefer to play on console where everything just works by default. I don't care if the game costs 29.99 on Steam while 59.99 on console, I'm just happy that it always just works on consoles like Switch. But I do think Deck might be a just fine product for PC-players who are very used to coping with the mess anyway.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Of Valve's Steam Deck Are In - What's It Like Compared To Switch?
@ArcticEcho
Yeah, Switch with some kind of silicon grips on the joy-cons and it's OK for playing handheld for an hour or two. But I always turn it tabletop if I plan to play undocked for prolonged periods, like 2-3hrs. I hate the feeling of making the Switch super-long like with Hori Split Pad, it feels like a snowboard. As you say, Switch already reaches the upper limit for what size I can accept for a handheld. Deck is almost twice the mass and over 600 grams...
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Of Valve's Steam Deck Are In - What's It Like Compared To Switch?
@Yorumi
You're guessing wrong then. I've got 500hrs Civ 6, 300hrs Hearts of Iron, 200hrs Squad. Steam is well known for being a mess.
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Of Valve's Steam Deck Are In - What's It Like Compared To Switch?
For me, the Deck is just jack of all trades that just doesn't get any of it right. While the Switch is just small enough to be somewhat convenient to take on the go, Deck is about as portable as a 15-inch laptopwith no battery life. As Switch is comfortable even for long portable play thanks to table top-mode with the kickstand, Deck is handheld-only and can therefor in my opinion only be used with comfort for like 30 minutes or so. Renders it kinda bad for portable play...which is a real problem as it's clearly designed for that in mind. Further more, it doesn't neither get the docked play right. No dock included, and also inconvenient to "switch" between docked an portable, as it doesn't work with a slide-in dock as the Nintendo Switch.
And for some reason they cheaped put on the display even on the 649USD premium version....why???
Re: Round Up: The Reviews Of Valve's Steam Deck Are In - What's It Like Compared To Switch?
Im gonna skip the Deck. I don't like Steam, it's messy and inconvenient, and the Deck seem to be more of that, were you have to consult guides and stuff just to get the games running. Not for me as a console gamer.
Further more, doesn't interest me in the slightest if Switch "only" has 10.000 games while Steam has 100.000 games. Switch has more great games than I have time to play anyway, so I'm not buying another console just to get even more games to my backlog.
Re: Take A Look Inside The Tiny Apartment Of The Man Who Owes Nintendo $14 Million
@defrb
"greed" to take criminals to court xD
Whats wrong with the philosophy of Adults taking responsibility for their own actions? Bowser Spending a year or two in jail won't ruin or end his life. He has the choice to turn things around when he gets out.
Re: Take A Look Inside The Tiny Apartment Of The Man Who Owes Nintendo $14 Million
@Kevember
Yeah, 10 lines of text is too much for pro-crime folk. That's why they don't have the energy to do honest work xD
Re: Take A Look Inside The Tiny Apartment Of The Man Who Owes Nintendo $14 Million
@ManInTheChair @semolous
Everyone makes up history as they want it to be. Im not religious, I don't believe I will be up on judgement day because I didn't take side with criminals... xD
I do however believe that the rule of law is the only way to live if we want a somewhat peaceful society. It will probably do this Bowser-guy good to spend a couple of years inside. At least if he got a working brain in his head and are prepared to make a living in an honest way in the future.
Re: Take A Look Inside The Tiny Apartment Of The Man Who Owes Nintendo $14 Million
@semolous
Nope, as far as I know, Nintendo haven't done anything major immoral since the 90's cartel price control in EU. Nintendo creates jobs and values in peoples lives, taking criminals to court is something good that every honest citizen should appreciate. Criminals are like parasites who weakens and poisons our society.
Re: Take A Look Inside The Tiny Apartment Of The Man Who Owes Nintendo $14 Million
@Kevember
lol, so it's still Evil to want Law & Order? Some of the teen-communists on the internet makes it sound like Nintendo tortures this guy and other pirates. He will never pay anything of what he owes Nintendo, he will do a couple of years in jail, go on parole and do a dept restrucruring. After that, he will probably fall back into life of crime again and do a couple of more years in jail. BUHU, big corporate Nintendo so bad for taking criminals to court! Defund the police, let everyone have everything for free, corporations are insured etc etc etc. xD
Re: No Man's Sky Has Been Secretly In The Works For Two Years, And There's More Info To Come
Why would the console have to produce everything if it is streamed? A computer-server would produce everything in that case.
Re: Microsoft Wants Call Of Duty On Switch, Along With Other "Popular" Activision Blizzard Games
Yeah, I can see that. That Phil Spencer-guy is one of the best personalities that's happened the gaming industry in recent years. Funny how it might bring Activision support to Switch with the company owned by Microsoft/Xbox, while as an independent third-party, they gave Switch minimal support.
Re: Nintendo Direct To Air Tomorrow, Wednesday 9th February
YES!
Advance Wars Re:boot-camp details, please. Metroid Prime Remake, then Im all set for 2022.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@Richnj
Nope, it's equal bad of a crime stealing from a wealthy corporation as from a struggling one. There is no robin hood-excuses for any type of crime. We can't start giving criminals excuses because they rob a wealthy old lady in the streets instead of a poor one.
We agree on that violent crimes should be punished harsher. But the solution is not to be softer on theft and that sort of crimes, There is big, big problems with that type of crime in the US. The correct way to go about it is tougher on crime across the board, especially violent crimes. We need to start locking up lifestyle criminals for life. 3 times and you're out, that's a very good policy.
Crime is on the rise, have you completely missed that? This is no time to speak for softening up. We have people setting in system of mass-looting. It's on the brink of mutiny. It's really the time now to set the foot down and lock 'em up.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@Richnj
What the company is worth hasn't anything to do with it, you don't get a free pass to commit crimes against big companies because they make money. And one wrong doesn't make another wrong right. If the penalties for sexual assault is too light, then the way of correcting it is not to make penalties for theft lighter. The correct way is to be tougher on crime across the board.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@Arawn93
I don't get it. Why would anyone take a criminal in defense because he "went against a big company"? It's like taking the rioters in California in defense because they steal from companies. I rather take those companies in defense rather than crims that think the world owes them a living.
Re: Rumour: A "Certain Super Spy" Could Return Within The Next Few Weeks
@Jmjfrank
I actually have no problems at all with Goldeneye controls even today when I play it on my good ol' 64. I find them actually to be easier than modern console FPS, as by the shooting gallery-like game design, you don't really do much aiming.
Re: Rumour: A "Certain Super Spy" Could Return Within The Next Few Weeks
I really hope Nintendo and Microsoft makes the real deal here, and brings it to both Switch and Gamepass with onlineplay and united player pool. I really miss classic non-Call of Duty FPS multiplayer like Goldeneye...
Re: Random: Here's The Nintendo Switch-Like Steam Deck Compared To Some Other Stuff
I think OG Switch pretty much is at the limit in what I can accept for a portable system when comes to bulkiness/size, wight and batterylife. Deck is a good idea, but as it's just too big, plus only digital, with 2 hrs battery life. I think it should probably be sent back to the writing table. 64GB is really Nothing when it can't take any physical games. Nintendo Switch only works for me as the majority of the bigger games I own are on cartridge.
Re: Random: Here's The Nintendo Switch-Like Steam Deck Compared To Some Other Stuff
lol, they could really had done a bit more work on the design. xD
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@meeto_1
It works as crime declined greatly in most of US when more or less general tough on crime-policys was introduced in the 90's. Sure, the criminals has been locked up in great numbers since then, but that's not a problem. Criminals paying for their crimes is NOT a problem, it's proof that the policing actually works and gets results. US is a greatly diverse country, there will always be high crime in a country like that compared to small northern countries. That can't be changed. The important thing is that it works to lock criminals up. They can't do crimes in the society while being locked up.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@AugustusOxy
Im pretty sure that tough on crime do work. As long as people know the rules, that their particular criminal lifestyle might result in doing serious jail time, then I can hardly see how it's unfair or morally wrong to sentence them harshly. They have the option to quit the lifestyle of crime.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@icomma
Criminals stop doing crimes, then we don't have to lock people up. Things were A LOT worse in the US in the 70s-80s when there were no tough on crime-policys. Imprisoning criminals isn't really the problem. That we can see now when California lets thieves off, crime skyrockets.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@CharlieGirl
If Nintendo lost money or not, that I'd say you don't know. I'd say there is a good chance they lost a lot of money by a substantial number of Switch-owners downloaded/pirated their games for free instead of paying for them. Nintendo got a solid case here.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
@Spider-Kev
I think you're the joke xD
@N64-ROX
You do the crime, then you better be prepared to do the time.
Re: US Government Wants Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Locked Up For Five Years
Bye-Bye!
@Spider-Kev
Nintendo of America is US-based.
Re: Awesome Triangle Strategy Trailer Introduces Frederica And New Gameplay
SO excited for this, it's insane. I liked Octopath Traveler, but I prefer tactical RPG:s every day.
Re: Gallery: Six Brand New Screenshots Of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes And Punishments Running On Switch
looks mighty fine
Re: Life Is Strange Remastered Meets Further Delays On Switch
No problems. Better to get it right.
Re: Bobby Kotick Considered Buying Game Websites To "Change The Public Narrative" Around Activision
He should pay off Facebook and Twitter too, so they'll take down any information about bad things at Activision as "desinformation" and "Harmful information".
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity's Development Was A Real Pain In The... Grass
@Pokester99
Just stating facts. Either you're a fanboy, or you simple don't remember how the games looked like back in the PS3 days. Either way, try not to get so angry. It's not good for you...
Very few other AAA-games comes even close to some of the rendering-tech of the nature elements i Botw.
Re: The Company Behind This High-End Switch Rival Thinks It Has Solved Analogue Stick Drift
Hall effect sensors does have something called time drift. Meaning they probably won't have drift in the same meaning as Switch, PS5, Xbox etc, but they might however get lower accuracy over time
Re: Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity's Development Was A Real Pain In The... Grass
@Pokester99
Id say no PS3, PS4, PS5 game to date matches the physics-driven environmental detail like Botw, with it's grass, water physics when raining etc. Ofc. not because they can't do it, but because most of the Sony studios prioritizes other graphic details. Just compare Botw with Horizon zero dawn, the PS4-game does look a lot better in texture detail and stuff, but the world is totally static...
Re: Nintendo Minute's Kit And Krysta Say Goodbye In Their "Final Episode"
Never liked it, "Kit and Krysta" never felt genuine, gave the feeling of just corporate PR-people trying to do a fake gaming YT-channel. I miss the good ol' days with Club Nintendo.
Anyways, there are so many good YT-Nintendo channels out there, without being officially Nintendo, just done by real gaming enthusiasts.
Re: Talking Point: Should The Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack Library Expand Faster?
No.
I think it should shrink after launch
Re: Grand Theft Auto Trilogy's Latest Nintendo Switch Update Is Now Available
Wont even consider it before it's on sale and can boost decent resolutions and performance. 480p 20fps, what a joke...
Re: Talking Point: What Can This $1200 Portable PC Tell Us About The 'Switch Pro'?
It pretty much tells me that Im sticking to the 299USD Switch. It gives me all the games I need and good enough graphics and performance. I see no reason what so ever to pay 1299 for any console in the world...
Re: Rockstar Has Released Its First Update For The Grand Theft Auto Trilogy
@Seb_is_the_best
Yep. It's fixed dates by God himself. Can't be changed no matter what lol!
Re: Nintendo Announces Enormous Cyber Switch Sale That Will Discount More Than 1,000 Games
@BlueOcean
Not True. See no reson getting a game like two point hospital on PS4 instead of Switch...pretty huge deal being able to play it both on tv and handheld..
Re: That Large Combat Text Box In Star Wars: KOTOR On Switch Is "Intended"
@Mdhoover
yeah, thats true. Noticed that I played for 8hrs just to take me off the ship in the beginning, lol
Re: Video: Check Out This Side-By-Side Comparison Of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City On Switch And PS Vita
@Tisteg80 I think we expected a better looking and playing game. GTA Trilogy doesn't even perform well on Xbox Series X, lol
Re: That Large Combat Text Box In Star Wars: KOTOR On Switch Is "Intended"
The port is really good, but I do think they went a bit too far with the huge text. The Switch screen might be small, but it's not THAT small
Re: GTA Trilogy Dev Responds To Fan Frustrations, Says Updates Are Already In The Works
Don't release games that are a unfinished mess...
Re: Review: Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition - Three Classics In One Shocking Package
lol
This would have been so much better if they only ported the original versions, bumped the resolutions and made them 60fps. New game engine and "modernized gameplay" didn't add any value to this package of garbage whatsoever.
Re: Switch Hacking Group Leader Gary Bowser Agrees To Pay Nintendo $4.5 Million
Very, very Good news
Re: Rare's N64 Classic GoldenEye 007 Is No Longer "Banned" In Germany
Goldeneye with online multiplayer might be enough for me to opt-in on the expansion pack. If I also could get the N64 controller. Been a good 20 years since I last stood in that window on the complex level, firing the screaming rockets at Oddjob.
Re: Switch OLED Model Rates 2 Out Of 10 On Screen Durability Scratch Test
@Stocksy
The truth is something in between. Joy-con drift does exist but its getting better, Nintendos design revisions of the sticks seems to work.
Re: Switch OLED Model Scores 2 Out Of 10 On Screen Durability Scratch Test
@oconnoclast
Shower your bathroom to a mist and put on the protector in there afterwards. The mist will reduce dust in the air.
Re: Can't Find Dying Light On The Switch eShop? It Might Be Because It's Currently Banned In Germany
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Re: Video: Digital Foundry's Technical Analysis Of Dying Light On Switch
@WallyWest Hitman 3 is cloud only, according to the developer simply because they didn't have the manpower to port it to Switch. I got no doubts that Switch could handle Hitman 3 natively if they would invest the money and around a year of work.