Thread 715347180

What's better Switch 2 or Steam Deck 2?

Pits

right now, the steam deck, by a mile. huge game library, easy piracy and emulation
in the future as more switch 2 games release and the deck hardware ages more and more, the gap will progressively decrease
>t. idort

>>715347180 (OP)
>nijika the 4chan
stay, unlike the Kita-fags

>>715347180 (OP)
Steam Deck mogs the Switch 2 in number of good games avaliable.

>>715347180 (OP)
>lust provoking image

>>715347180 (OP)
EmuDeck alone makes the Deck worth it.

Used to be a big fan of the Valis series in my youth. Now I'm playing the NES import on the go, along with every other version they released it on.

There's even a video of all the anime cut scenes from the games (Laser Soft Visual Collection Vol. 2: Valis Visual-shuu Turbo Grafix CD). I can't believe this shit works as easy as it does.

If you had told me years ago the most stable gaming platform, as well as ease of emulating games, would be on Linux, I'd never have believed you.

A-Agp~!

>>715347180 (OP)
Deck 2 doesn't exist so Switch 2.

>>715347371
This.
I have never had a Ouija board in my house, and I NEVER WILL. There are just some things you should never mess with.

>>715347180 (OP)
>nijika the motherless
Marry me.

>>715350547
She'll end up a childless hag like her sister.

>>715349731
You are trying too hard to make this a thing

bump

I bought a Deck for the SOLE purpose of being a continuation of the PSP line for me, which I CFW'd so I could play a massive PS1, GBA, NES, and SNES library on it.

It did exactly that, except then it blew me out of the water by also being able to emulate
>PSP
>N64
>PS2
>Xbox
>DS
>3DS
>Wii
>WiiU
>Switch
All perfectly. Switch stuff in most cases even better than the native Switch.

Then for cherry on top, I knew I was going to be able to play some cool older PC games as well like Age of Empires 2, but it turns out the Deck is so strong it can play fairly modern games such as MHWorld or Fallout 4 at unexpectedly high framerates as well.

Like this dude >>715347828 says, EmuDeck makes it all super accessible and braindead too. No need for any tinkertrannying at all. Just install, plug and play. I prefer doing it all manually so I can have it as debloated as possible though. RetroArch is very helpful for this.

As for MUH LINUX, the Deck singlehandedly made me switch from Windows to Linux on desktop because of how much better it is.

Finally, Valve keeps making updates to SteamOS and the Deck. They still somehow manage to keep optimizing it further and give you more FREE frames. Opening your Deck and doing hardware operations isn't just supported, but encouraged and comes with guides. Same with repairs. Valve is so pro consumer it will make your fucking head spin. Nintendo just wants to rape your asshole and your wallet.

>>715347180 (OP)
A Steam Deck 2 would have the same problem as the Steam Deck. It would be a low end integrated graphics SOC chip “gaming” PC that is sold as a console despite almost no games being optimized for it like a console. At best you would be able to play the latest games with lesser settings for about a year. Meanwhile Switch 2 might receive optimized ports of those games. Handheld PCs are still PCs they are not the same as consoles receiving optimized ports. Also another Steam Deck would likely have the same problems as the original: aesthetically atrocious, heavy, loud fan noise (for me the fan noise makes the Deck unplayable). Nobody would buy it except for people with autism, just like the original.

>>715353489
>almost no games being optimized for it like a console
Actually that's called Proton

>>715347180 (OP)
I am only here for the hot pic.

>>715347180 (OP)
PC has the largest library but Deck is too slow for current gen games. Switch 2 is considerably more powerful, see: Cyberpunk on Switch 2 vs Deck.
On Switch 2 you're limited to just Switch and Switch 2 games and they're insanely overpriced while Steam games are dime a dozen.
Neither is better it depends on what you want to play. Ideally you'd get both. Switch 2 for exclusives and Nintendo's shit and Deck for everything else on the go.

nijikker's ikkers...

>>715353476
the flanny.....

>>715353123
I have an Odin 2 for 6th gen and earlier and ROG Ally X for PC games and everything else plus a desktop for couch gaming. Arch Linux on desktop and Ally and Rocknix on Odin 2.
I picked the Ally over Deck because I don't need the touchpads but the larger battery, VRR and faster chip are nice.

>>715353641
Proton doesn’t optimize games for the deck, it translates Windows games to Linux and also introduces a performance overhead hit. Also if you don’t care about the latest games (and for the most part you shouldn't unless you enjoy playing as an ugly negress protagonist or seeing tranny flags and needing endless patches because of Indian street shitter developers) the original steam deck is fine as it is

>>715353489
What fucking per platform optimization do you think is being done by the devs? None.
Consoles and PCs are using the same architecture under the hood and !most of the heavy lifting is done by the drivers. These aren't the PS2 days with dedicated custom silicon for weird shit. We're in the age of programmable shader and developers write in higher layer of abstraction on top of the hardware being almost the same.
Optimization nowadays comes down to disabling superfluous graphics effects on console and not fucking up API specific shader code like Elden Ring did on launch which is why it stuttered on Xbox and PC (DX12) but not on PS5 and PC via vkd3d because it translated DX12 calls to something less retarded also async. To be fair, it was a few lines of code and even techlet nips fixed it in a month. But outside of that there is no magic ultra performant extension in PS5 API that isn't in Vulkan and Nintendo is just using tools provided to them by nvidia. Their in-house software is limited to Horizon.

>>715354778
Proton overhead is negligible because games are usually just C++ blobs and don't make extensive use of anything Windows specific like other desktop software does.
Performance regressions you see are mostly because it forces the use of some bleeding edge Vulkan extensions that may be borked in the driver or use slower fallback. Windows drivers also tend to do some hacky shit to improve performance while mesa aims to be more compliant with standards. The hacky shit isn't the drivers' devs fault, it's almost always done to fix the retarded shit developers do wrong while making the games.

>>715347180 (OP)
Deck has more bang for your buck IMO, if you want something more powerful just look into other UMPCs. Deck 2 is vaporwave but it's absolutely going to rape the Switch 2 in regards to shear performance if it does get made.
Switch 2, alongside other consoles, are only good for their exclusives.

>>715347201
You faggots will do anything but cumming inside a girl's pussy.

>>715355257
They reduce asset quality on consoles in a way that no slider can adjust for. A game on PC and equivalent hardware console will always perform better on a console. But like I said, unless you want to play as a fucking NIGGER with tranny and gay faggot shit in a game coded by curry and BO-smelling street shitting poojeets, this isn’t really an issue. Modern AAA demanding games are shit
>>715355742
There is still an overhead. It’s impressively small though. So is the Xbox VM overhead, this kinda shit is pretty amazing and no doubt developed by white programmers. Indians would just check a box and move on to the next thing.