I got a Steam Deck shortly after the Switch 2 price reveal and love it. I wish I’d gotten one years ago, but better late than never.

I don’t think I’ve ever actively been put off of wanting a new console before this.

Weren’t around for this one? It put me off Xbox forever, which turned out to be the right decision.

They said they “played” 23% of the games, not “completed.”

They’re charging more money for lower quality games. Glad less people are buying.

I’m not young, but I know mine has gone down. I’m not playing less games, though. 🏴‍☠️

Not that I’m aware of. I’ve never had a 4k TV.

No wonder performance has been bad! The Deck is not meant to be a 4k system.

I wish so many games didn’t default to the Xbox layout with no option to change it. Having grown up with the SNES layout, the prompts fuck me up every time.

I’m willing to believe he might have learned from his mistakes, but he was 27 when he did the most egregious things. More than old enough to know better. The older you are when you do stupid shit, the harder it will be for people to forgive you.

This is complete BS. Think of the traditional cliches of dad puttering around in the garage, watching the game on TV, going on a fishing trip - is anyone questioning how he has time to do these things? When a hobby is worthwhile to you, you make time for it. This just reveals your bias that playing video games is not a worthy way of spending leisure time, which is a super boomer take. The average age of people who play video games is 36.

Oh, thanks for the clarification! Never heard anything about that before.

Borderlands 3 sold over 20 million, that’s pretty significant even if it is less than 2. The overall quality has certainly gone downhill, but sales is all the companies care about. In my experience boycotts by people who know what’s going on behind the scenes never amount to anything - it’s always the potential buyers who don’t know or care about that stuff that ultimately determine whether a game’s successful or not.

the writer’s WiiU

I’m assuming this is an autocorrect, but I can’t figure out what the word is supposed to be.

There are Steam exclusives, but it’s because the publisher chose it to be that way, not because of any incentive by Valve.

Better if they don’t, as they don’t deserve people’s money.

You can, although I really don’t think there’s anything wrong with just downloading the game, especially considering it’s not being sold anywhere.

Video game companies are going all-in on seeing just how greedy they can be and get away with it. I’m curious to see just how much consumers will put up with.

Playing portably, mouse-based games run pretty well. Games that use a lot of keyboard keys are where it gets difficult without using an actual keyboard.

No original ones do considering there’s no disc slot, but you can play whatever they choose to drip-feed you via NSO if you pay for the Expansion Pack subscription.

Or you can play every GameCube game on Steam Deck with improved visuals for free.

You can run non-Steam games on the Steam Deck as well.

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