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Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]

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781 points HelloUsername | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 13:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.232s | source
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joshstrange ◴[16 Jan 25 15:42 UTC] No.42726760[source]▶
At this point I'd be hard pressed to consider this over my Steam Deck. We will see the specs later but I doubt it will really compete processing-wise or screen-wise.

The openness (full arch desktop) of the Steam Deck is also awesome while having a great UI that you never have to leave if you don't want to.

EDIT: I mistakenly called it "fedora desktop", my bad

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irrational ◴[16 Jan 25 15:51 UTC] No.42726902[source]▶
Isn't the point of owning a switch to play games that aren't on the Steam Deck? Zelda, Mario, etc.?
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joshstrange ◴[16 Jan 25 15:53 UTC] No.42726923[source]▶
With emulators those games can also be played on the Steam Deck.
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maronato ◴[16 Jan 25 18:19 UTC] No.42728846[source]▶
Why pay for the Steam Deck, though? Buy it online and claim it never arrived to get a refund.

I’m yet to hear a moral argument for emulating current games you don’t own unless you’re poor and need to choose between buying Zelda and starving.

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1. 63stack ◴[16 Jan 25 21:20 UTC] No.42731057[source]▶
They have sold millions of faulty joycons (referring to drift), when the solution was already available (hall effect sticks) but it would have cost them an extra $1 per joystick, reselling games that came out in 2010 for $60 today, and using DMCA to bully youtube channels that show videos of their games are some morally reprehensible things from the top of my head.

It does not entitle anyone to pirate their games, but taking your words, Nintendo is not exactly starving either, they could have spent the extra $1 on the joycons to fit them with non drifting sticks. Even if you use their replacement program, you just get another joycon with the same stick.