This is a company that will sue you if you even watch this press release incorrectly, but they’re still coming at the bit

I’m aware, we aren’t going to make a massive dent. However, for this 2 million dollar settlement, how many people would need to be swayed to not buy a switch 2 to make the settlement more expensive? In other words, how many sales would need to be lost because of us not buying the console to make the settlement moot?

In the case of 2 million, that’s about 4,500 switch 2s, not counting the loss in games bought or accessories.

If just 4500 people were convinced not to buy one because of this settlement, then the cost to their brand being tarnished is worse than the loss of potential sales due to the chip.

There’s a dozen other factors too, legal costs, what drives these potential sales, etc. what I’m trying to say is that if they’re willing to be this litigious over a few thousand console sales, then that means that even small groups like us not buying consoles can actually be noticed. It may be a simple dip in sales on a chart, but they’ll notice. To a greedy corporation willing to go after a single guy in a garage, they’ll notice a couple thousand people not buying consoles.

I continue to not buy Nintendo devices or software because of their continuing nonsensical litigation like this. Whatever value they think they lost because of these chips I say compare that to their continued tarnishing of their name.

If your drm can be altered with a chip some guy made in his garage then it’s your drm that’s at fault. Financially ruining the guy only hurts the Nintendo brand.

I have not… but I will now!

You just hold the rev button as you walk up to an enemy. Then Marcus screams and the large body becomes many pieces

Yeah my brain went immediately to “that’s why we have batocera”. I mean more is good, but also, it’s tight there and already very mature

That’s a fair reason IMO. However, knowing that it might be a few years out, then it becomes “is it worth the wait”

I don’t think you can take a device like this and compare AAA titles on it, but even if we do then I think you can only compare it to other handhelds. Right now, checking the competitors they’re mostly on par right now for AAA performance. I stand by my other comments, if you’re looking for good graphics and good performance, a handheld is not the right device for you - you need to be looking at a desktop with an actual GPU and real power.

Those are real tradeoffs we make by going portable, we expect lower performance so we can get a longer battery life. We cannot have a long battery and great performance in a portable, they go against each other. If others are able to pull it off then yeah go with them, but every bit of performance they add means consuming more battery life.

Personally I chose Pop for the same reason, I don’t want to sit there tinkering for hours. They have a version with nvidia drivers already baked in, everything worked out of the box. Installed Steam from the popshop (which does flatpaks) and took off from there.

Red dead is the only game I’ve laughed out loud and literally cried at the screen. It’s a masterpiece.

Your story hurt me deep.

Your question depends on your definition of “can it run”. To me, as a portable device I get 45 fps on the witcher on medium settings and that’s very playable. If you want to use it as a desktop and expect that the next version will rival a 5000 series GPU, that’s unrealistic.

By definition it cannot exist. You can have a powerhouse or portable. The fact that they made the deck as powerful as they did is frankly amazing.

See other comments, this was on purpose to make it more portable. The deck doesn’t need to be a powerhouse, it needs to be portable. We already have powerhouse desktops

This has been a major annoyance I’ve had too with gamers. It was never meant to play games at 240fps with ultra graphics. It’s meant as a way to make “most” games playable on the road. A great low cost entry point, or something to compliment your big gaming rig. I don’t need an upgrade because it does what it does great, plays most games on decent settings well enough for the duration of a flight or trip. If you want ultra graphics, you will have to pay ultra prices and probably do a big desktop. Even “Steam Deck 2” will still probably only do 30-45fps games on medium, just newer games will be a bit more playable.

That’s a fair ask IMO. Not wanting a newer shinier one, just one that fits you better.

Proves over and over society was not ready for AI chatbots like this. I use it daily, but as someone who fully knows the limitations of what it is and what it can do. I’m mentally sound and can handle whatever garbage it can vomit up, but it helps with my coding. The fact that it was unleashed to everyone going full pandora’s box was an insane pure profit driven motive.

Those of us who understand it can completely see it going off the rails. It’s just a prediction machine. If you give it horrible stuff like that it’s going to predict that it should come up with horrible stuff in response. It’s almost impossible to stop it from doing that because the only real way to prevent it is to not train on that stuff before, but when you’re dealing with the entire fucking internet that’s pretty hard too. (Seriously people, Reddit and 4chan were included in training. How stupid were they with this?)

This was inevitable. Of course people are too trusting in AI and those mentally unwell will not be able to distinguish it. It was designed to be like that. They were wrong to release it openly to society.

There you go, that’s the answer. Can’t just be happy with what we have, not even for a couple of years. Time to throw it away, get the new one!

I don’t know why people are so eager for it, the deck is great, it’s a great purchase. I wish I had gotten the OLED, but I’m very very happy with it. I don’t see that it needs to be replaced annually or even every 2-3 years. It’s like the switch, why not go 4+ years before hardware drives that a new one is possible

A perfect example I get shot down on here a lot is to make browser-level protections. It seems so obvious to me that the browser, an app that is local to the PC, could verify your age (via ID, credit card, something) for no one specific website. That then would authorize you to access mature areas of the internet, and there could be a checkable library within the browser that websites could use to validate this.

Us being linux nerds here know that there would be ways to circumvent this, but it would be a hell of a great jumping off point vs the current which is “give your ID to each website they totally won’t hand it over to the gov”. The fact that none of those options were seriously considered and they went right for censorship shows exactly what their true motivations are.