• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    15 hours ago

    Imagine if you could go on the Nintendo store and buy a game you couldn’t even run, or had to check a third party website to see if it ran acceptably and let you use all the buttons.

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      6 hours ago

      If you try to buy a game on Deck that you couldn’t run on Deck, there will be very clear warning about it, one you can’t miss. At least it was last time I checked. And to be honest, I’m pretty sure the number of games like that is now almost exclusively consists of competitive shooters, and you wouldn’t even think of buying it on Deck anyway.

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      12 hours ago

      How is that different from any other computer buying from steam, ever? In the history of all computer games? A steam deck is a hand held computer with a community large enough, and system specs stable enough to have a rating on potentially any PC, and most Nintendo games in existence. Compared to nintendo’s walled garden. Your comparing apples to oranges.

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        13 hours ago

        It’s not different. Nintendo’s target group just don’t want to bother with it.

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        10 hours ago

        How is that different from any other computer buying from steam

        To begin with, Nintendo Switch isn’t “any other computer” where you can “buy from Steam”, so this question seems irrelevant to this discussion.

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          8 hours ago

          My comment is germane to the post comparing the two devices in an aspect that exemplifies how they can’t be compared, and tries to spin it as a negative, while attempting to bury its positive.

          The fact you say that the switch is not like any other computer is both true in the sense that i already argued, and false in that it IS yet just another computer, but with a walled garden.

          If there was any a comment that was irrelevant, it would be yours.