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I have personally pirated $500+ worth of Switch games plus the $300 console I would have otherwise bought since I own a Steam Deck. This is a very common use-case.

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By contrast I own a Switch and a Steam Deck and ripped dozens of games I legally purchased to play on my Steam Deck.

Nintendo, please sue me! I would love to help establish more case law here

No case law necessary. Those "rips" are illegal copies under U.S. copyright law.

I believe technically the copies themselves are not illegal, but the process by which DRM is circumvented is illegal.

I am dumping my own private keys from my own cartridges I paid for. This is obvious fair use in the spirit of the law.

Would you really have bought both consoles together? I have a hard time to believe that. That's not really the same budget.

Yes if I didn’t have yuzu on my steam deck I 100% would have bought a switch just for the two Zelda games.

This makes sense because you would not have bought a steam deck if you owned a switch

I have bought 3 switch consoles and i still want something like a steam deck because steam EOL'd their remote play box. I want something i can play PC games on on a TV that i can also take with me to boring things like waiting rooms. The switch screen (i have the original switch) is too tiny, and it's a very heavy console. Switch lites have even smaller screens, but they weigh much less - it is possible the controllers i use undocked are just heavier, but either way. The steam deck has a higher resolution screen, and i'm sure some devices have greater than FHD resolution with greater than 60FPS "refresh". That's kind of a big deal to my crappy eyes.

Right now i have a laptop connected to my TV to play steam games that support controllers. I'd much rather just have another USB-C to HDMI converter plugged in to a device designed nearly completely to play games.

A huge use case for me would be using wemod/cheatengine and in general steam workshop. The second biggest reason is shovelware. On the switch if i buy a game because it looks good, AFAIK i can't refund it if it's actually a garbage game. On steam, i've requested refunds after playing (some*) games for several days.

* mostly incremental/clicker/idle games, because they're designed to be crappy to start out, so 2 hours isn't even enough time to expose 1% of the content or gameplay.

The problem with 1080p and higher on mobile devices like that is that the chips available for these devices physically cannot give a good experience at that resolution. The main limitation is memory bandwidth. It works great at 720p. Anything higher and it starts to break down.

Citation: I own a steam deck and an ROG Ally. The Ally has the best controller on the market but it's hamstrung by the screen simply having too many pixels. Well, that and Windows.

I would have bought the Steam Deck regardless but the switch is optional since there are games the steam deck can play but the switch cannot, but the inverse isn’t true since I can play switch games for free on the steam deck.

Your statement is false.

I have a steam deck. So far, I have bought roughly 5 switches. One for myself that I gave away as a gift, and 4 OLED switch gifts.

After seeing what Nintendo is doing, I will never buy anything from them ever again, nor will I purchase Nintendo products as gifts for anyone.

They are greedy and immoral. This is the consequence of attacking open code.

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