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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

My wife bought a Steam Deck a few months ago; she hasn't touched her Switch since then, and she's actually considering just getting rid of it.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Installed SteamOS on my ROG Ally and now it has turned into a real ally. I don’t think my Switch has been charged in weeks.

[-] lobo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it working good? I also tried it also but it was draining the battery even when I turned it off.

Ended up installing Bazzite.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You have to install decky and the tdp plugin to get proper control of the power system. So far so good.

[-] lobo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah I had that, was still losing about 1% battery every hours even though it was supposed to be turned off 🤷‍♂️

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Oh interesting I haven’t checked standby power drain.

There is virtually nothing the Switch can do that the Steam Deck can't. It's completely redundant if you have a Deck in my opinion.

[-] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago

The thing the switch can do is play closed garden games because nintendo refuses to release their games anywhere outside of their own consoles

I guess you could use an emulator but thats not ideal for 95% of the population

[-] RazgrizOne@piefed.zip 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also abandoned my switch for a steam deck but uhhh the obvious thing it can’t do is play switch games lol

It can, I've got several switch games on my Deck

[-] RazgrizOne@piefed.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Plays it as well as a switch?

[-] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

It runs most switch games better than the switch. You just can't play any of them online. (At least not easily, AFAIK.)

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Emulator.

Its actually better than the switch too. I play at 4k.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

I had a switch1. Enjoyed a couple games on it. On a whim, I bought mario party # whatever to play with friends, downloaded it, and discovered that we couldn't play it with the controllers I had. I wasn't about to buy even more controllers, so I decided to refund the game. Nintendo said no, as per their refund policy no game that has been downloaded can be refunded. I gave away my switch that same week. Breath of the wild runs better on my pc anyway.

[-] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Do youwu ewen sell in Steam, Shigeru Nintendo?!

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