I’ve been really wanting to get a steamdeck. I’ve been playing a lot on my modded switch, but there is a lot I want to play that is not available on the switch.

Does anyone have both systems and still use the switch?

I imagine I can just dump my games and emulate them on the Steamdeck.

I don’t do anything online, so I can’t imagine I’ll miss out on anything.

Im an experienced Linux gamer, so im not worried about the Linux side of things.

  • FubarberryMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m in a similar boat, I have a steam deck and a modded switch that I can transfer games/saves over to my PC and deck.

    The switch still gets use for the following reasons:

    • online play (when the deck is not booted into custom firmware)

    • some games don’t run well when emulated. This is getting better all the time, but is still an issue, especially with newly released games. I wasn’t satisfied with ToTK performance on release for my deck so I ended up playing it exclusively on my switch. Also you need shader caches for games to run well, and the games stutter and hang a lot while generating those in new areas.

    • the games that do run well still aren’t very efficient in terms of power consumption, and you’ll get longer battery life out of the switch for most emulated titles.

    The Deck does have significant advantages over the switch, like bigger screen, bigger storage, more comfortable to hold, PC games, etc. If there’s a PC port of a switch game it will run better on deck than on switch, with comparable battery on comparable graphics levels.