Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off
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If you had watched the video you would see the Nintendo switch is much more energy efficient… The steam deck doesn’t win in every single way even if we may want it to.
Energy efficiency is not at all related to game optimization and how well it runs. Atleast in this sense.
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Energy efficiency is not at all related to game optimization and how well it runs. Atleast in this sense.
When the software isn’t efficient that’s bad coding(not in this case), it has absolutely everything to do with optimization. No one is going to say a game is well-optimized if it drains your battery in 5 minutes. You need to have nuance and admit when your favorite thing doesn’t win every in every metric. Lemmy has a steam deck circlejerk refusing to acknowledge that other handhelds may be better in some ways this is coming from someone would gladly to pick the SD over everything else.
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When the software isn’t efficient that’s bad coding(not in this case), it has absolutely everything to do with optimization. No one is going to say a game is well-optimized if it drains your battery in 5 minutes. You need to have nuance and admit when your favorite thing doesn’t win every in every metric. Lemmy has a steam deck circlejerk refusing to acknowledge that other handhelds may be better in some ways this is coming from someone would gladly to pick the SD over everything else.
I would love to know which games the deck and the Nintendo can both run and the Nintendo beats it at energy efficiency. Generally speaking you’re not playing the game games on either device.
Oh good for you though, it wins 1 metric out of all the other advantages that a steam deck has, and is 3 years older
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The Switch 1 and 2 are kind of unbeatable in power efficiency, and I’m not surprised a port of CP2077 is running better on the Switch 2 than on the Steam Deck. I wish they used a better screen and bigger battery out the gate with the Switch 2, but there will no doubt be a mid gen refresh with those things.
I think if you have a lot of money for buying games that are only going to work on one system, the Switch 2 is a better product for people that want a system that just works out the box. Steam Deck is for people with patience and an existing library.
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The Switch 1 and 2 are kind of unbeatable in power efficiency, and I’m not surprised a port of CP2077 is running better on the Switch 2 than on the Steam Deck. I wish they used a better screen and bigger battery out the gate with the Switch 2, but there will no doubt be a mid gen refresh with those things.
I think if you have a lot of money for buying games that are only going to work on one system, the Switch 2 is a better product for people that want a system that just works out the box. Steam Deck is for people with patience and an existing library.
The best part when I bought my steam deck is that I already had 850 games where a majority of them work on it and it didn’t cost me anything extra.
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The best part when I bought my steam deck is that I already had 850 games where a majority of them work on it and it didn’t cost me anything extra.
And the steam deck 3 will support those games
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I mean these comparisons are always a bit redundant to me. I get multiplatform games like that on steam, I use switch for Nintendo games and other casual stuff that I prefer to play handheld and are not super resource hogs.
The only people that this would affect are the extreme edge case where you have no PC or gaming laptop or Xbox/PS but have both a deck AND a switch 2 AND you don’t care about the price difference and you really want the best handheld performance.
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But the games aren’t the same price. And the policies ran by the companies aren’t the same. I don’t think Valve has ever said they’re going to break your steam deck if you use it in a way they haven’t deemed fit. And I’d question if you can mod games on the switch, like even games that normally support it.
All fair points but most Nintendo people have other priorities.
There space for everyone but yeah personally fuck Nintendo and rest of them corpos.
I am sure steam will enshitify one day too
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All fair points but most Nintendo people have other priorities.
There space for everyone but yeah personally fuck Nintendo and rest of them corpos.
I am sure steam will enshitify one day too
God, I hope not.
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As long as valve never goes public we good
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Fuck Nintendo
