Switch Steam Deck or Switch 2?

[HyperTurboFox]

Since the Switch 2 price is $450/$500 and it's games are $80 & $90?!
This is a important questions to ask?

 

[maciintosh]

I personally think the Steam Deck is a far better value, but it really just depends on what you're playing.
Already have a healthy library on Steam, and just want to play your games on a handheld? I don't see why not. But if you're looking to play the next Nintendo games, as overpriced (subjectively) as they seem to be (although, I feel it's important to mention that from what I've seen, DK Bananza is $70, rather than $80/90 like Mario Kart World. Still a little egregious, but it's farther away from an entire $100, at least), then a Switch 2 would probably be the better option. It's just about what you're looking to play, really. But me, personally, I'm gonna have to go with a Steam Deck.

 

[Johnathan Smikey]

Steam Deck.

Is this is even a debate?

 

[t3mpt0n]

Steam Deck. Any day of the week.

 

[HITMAN_99]

you should add a third option, Neither.

 

[Potapota]

Steam deck plays the vast backlog of games you already own, emulates comfortably up to gen 7, goes as far as switch, is VERY open and moddable as far as commercial products like this go and uses standard parts and standard ports.
Switch 2 plays mario kart for 80 bucks. Connects to internet for another 20 bucks a year.
I'm being a bit hyperbolic here but still..

 

[beefbowl]

Wait until you can pirate stuff on switch 2 easily and buy a switch 2.

 

[Bonkers225]

Steamdeck. Switch 2 is probably going to end up being jailbroken within a year.

 

[NeonKnights]

After seeing the details of the Switch 2 digital only physical games and other blunders, I feel so much better about my Steam Deck OLED. Now I just need to soft mod it.

 

[SBLAST91]

Steam deck is objectively better value, as Steam as a marketplace actually sells games at a sane price, and you get all the freedom a normal PC would provide you. However you do not get the exclusives that come from owning a Nintendo console and the switch 2 itself is technically more powerful, so you could go either way.

 

[Leo-Dash]

Absolutely Steam Deck

You have a Handheld PC designed to play High End videogames and infinity potential (Steam Libraries, GoG Libraries, Indies, Emus)

And I have seen Artists on Tumblr connecting their Drawing Table with Steam Deck so they can Draw during college!
It's still a PC after all!

 

[iamthemilkman]

I don't really do handhelds nowadays. I mainly played my Switch docked. The worse performance and/or resolution in handheld mode often made me feel like I was playing a lesser game than I would be on my TV. So yeah, Switch 2 for me. If I play PC games, I play them on a desktop PC.