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Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights
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Literally bought a Wii this week so I could play GameCube. And mod it of course. The last good analog output console !
Get one now before prices go to the moon
Not including the steam machine/deck, the Wii was the last good console and I will die on this hill.
I think the Switch is genuinely pretty amazing
Except that Nintendo gets more hostile to it's customers every year. The hardware, outside of the thumbsticks, is quite good. But I'm not giving that company another cent.
Valid take. But as hardware, Switch is a very solid console, even if I agree as a company Nintendo is extremely scummy.
Take away the exclusives and its pretty subpar. The steam deck blows it away, especially with emudeck installed.
I think the evaluation comes back much better when you take the radical price difference into account. Like yes, the Steam Deck is much better, but it is also multiple times more expensive than a Switch, so it should vastly outperform it
You can go down this route until you factor the price of games and the online subscription into it.
I still think you're looking at a substantial library until you end up even breaking even here. And to your previous point, first party games are an enormous part of the value and appeal, so you can't really fairly just dismiss them wholesale. That's kind of like saying a car is just a big block of plastic and metal if not for the engine
You can buy seven switch games and a subscription to break even. I wouldn't call that substantial. There's a ton of really good free to play games and even more sub $20 games on deck. Not including the thousands you have access to with emudeck, including Wii game's.
In the end, play what you like. I'll die on my hill.
But like, you're on that hill surrounded by no combatants? Nobody, myself included, is arguing that the Steam Deck isn't a good system, or even better than the Switch.
The Steam Deck being good doesn't make the Switch bad? This isn't a binary in any conceivable way.
I said the Wii was the last good console. They could have done so much better than they did with the switch.
And for all the reasons stated, I disagree, and I do not believe you have made a compelling argument for your case. You have argued why the Steam Deck is better while blatantly ignoring crucial differences as if they should be compared as like. And beyond the comparison you have made no valid arguments against the Switch.
So yes, the Steak Deck is a great console, we both agree on that since that seems to be the only statement you're actually making here.
Maybe this will help:
It's like you said there hasn't been any good music since the 80s, and I said Turnstile is a great band actually, and you replied with "Led Zeppelin is better."
Maybe they are! But that says nothing about whether Turnstile is or is not good.
The switch 2 is bad for multiple reasons:
There's nothing to make it stand out other than exclusive game titles.
Once again, if that's your shtick, good for you. Enjoy it.
Everything since has just been a variation of "computer, but locked to an ecosystem"
The deck is my first actual console that I'm owning and not just playing at a friend's place. And even the deck is technically a PC... I guess I've just been a PC gamer
Totally.