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This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.
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I own both a switch and deck and have used them for years. They simply aren’t the same re: usability.
Have your kid swap between docked and handheld while playing a game. Good luck!
Generally speaking you’re either playing docked, or sitting down. Not typically both, but I know what you mean. Even then though, any of the games he plays just automatically readjust the resolution to handheld mode and works just fine. Then when you plug it back in, it knows to stop using the steam as monitor 1 and switches the output to the TV.
Not sure how you’re doing it, but its worked fine for me.
What? Switch users constantly swap between handheld and docked. That’s one the major draws. It takes like 4 seconds to go from handheld to docked or docked to handheld.
The steam deck simply can’t do that seamlessly. You have to save, close, just completely stop what you’re doing. If you’re lucky the screen won’t be borked during the transition forcing a restart. But like 30% of the time you have to restart or random stuff just doesn’t work.
What? Didn’t realize it was such a draw, but irregardless as I said, you just unplug the screen. Its as easy as that with a hub, just like a switch. I do it daily.
A switch doesn’t need you to unplug anything. Drop it in, take it out. 3s of interruption. I love my deck and never use my switch but even I get the appeal.
Do you know what a hub is? Same exact thing
What kind of patronizing bullshit is this? I talked about the steamdeck dock like 2 comments ago. Of course I know what a hub is. If you’re going to be an ass then just end the conversation now and do us both a favor. You obviously know I know what that is.
Thats what I’m saying, a hub and a steam deck act the same as a switch, I don’t understand your point.
If you think switching from handheld to dock and back is the same experience with switch and deck then you haven’t tried both.
Again, I love my deck. But it has a lot of quirks to deal with the switch simply doesn’t. The “verifying installation” bug is still an ongoing issue for people taking it out of their homes and swapping between gaming/desktop mode is still very clunky and unreliable. It’s a great machine I use it almost daily while my switch collects dust, but the switch is by far the more seamless/stable experience.