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Better how?

The detachable joycon with accelerometer control are a mechanic in some games (eg. Zelda crossbow aim). I would imagine this would be worse experience on steam deck.

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Better as in much better framerate with no performance drops. At least that's what I've heard.

Pretty much all the games I have played allowed to disable the motion controls. I think it counts towards accessibility. Personally I really dislike the whole motion control aspect so always turn them off. Zelda included.

I'm sure there are other tradeoffs as well. But would love it see what it's like on an emulator. Or maybe not, it might make running games on the original hardware feel terrible :)

> Pretty much all the games I have played allowed to disable the motion controls. I think it counts towards accessibility.

I think motion control is the only option for Pokemon Let's Go.

That has not been my experience with switch games on the Steam Deck. Anytime shaders are loaded the FPS seems to stutter which in the newer Mario game is like every few seconds at first and it gets better the longer you play.

I still prefer the switch for switch games myself.

I've tried a few and it does very much seem to depend on the game. Some run better, some run worse. Most are about equal.

Not in my experience. Definitely performance drops on the Deck. And even when it's running well, shader caches or whatever can make it stutter. Still very cool to be able to have all my games on one device though, even if it doesn't run as well.

Curious if you are running with or without mods.

Steamdeck also has a gyro for this kind of mechanic.

By the by, I recently switched to using a Dualsense as my SD external controller and found that the gyro controls make for an excellent desktop and M+K game controller. Surprised I didn’t think to check earlier.

FYI this has been possible since the DS4.

You can play them at a higher resolution and frame rate than Switch supports. Steam Deck supports accelerometer control as well.

Huh, TIL. Thanks!

In some cases. In other cases they run worse on Steam Deck, notably Tears of the Kingdom.

That's a pretty big asterisk. BotW and TotK account for about 90% of my Switch game time.

At this point, there's a TotK optimizer you can find that even has a preset specifically for the Steam Deck.

No, the SteamDeck gyro works too

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