Steam has this crazy concept where as a game gets older, you don’t have to pay as much for it as when it was new! Pretty wild, I know.
Sometimes you don’t even have to pay for games. 😇
Lemmy instance checks out
Innuendo aside, Steam has some awesome F2P titles
And discounts, including $0 ones.
GOG is cheaper. Steam does have more franchise deals though.
GOG is also DRM-free and lets you download the game installer as a backup, even if they’ve been pushing hard for their GOG Galaxy clients as of lately.
Sadly GOG isn’t even close to as good as Steam for Linux support.
True. But for the most part I game on a Windows box. Most games don’t have Linux support and I don’t want to bother trying to run things through Wine. I have 2 seperate comps for Linux and Windows. I pretty much use my Windows computer for for gaming and blender because it has the better graphics card and processor.
It’s not Valve that makes the decision, check how many times Factorio was on sale.
I respect their integrity.
Yep. In the case of Factorio, for now at least, it’s evergreen. It’s priced cheaper than it probably could be honestly and it’ll only get better. Likely anyone not interested with the current price tag isn’t interested at all. Not going on sale means you never feel the need to wait for a sale. You just buy it when you want to.
Even though I bought the expansion and haven’t even played a single second of it yet (factorio burn out is real). It’s still the cheapest game I’ve ever legally acquired in terms of £/s
I never agree with the $/time metric being used, but it is the easiest. I prefer (enjoyment/time)/$. If a game drags itself out just to keep me playing, I don’t value that.
With that said, Factorio is great for this too. Even with the current price (which is not the price I paid), it’s an amazing value. Once you consider the mods that are available, it’s easily worth the price.
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A hacked Switch is a pretty good Nintendo piracy device, too.
If you can find one without the updated firmware
I got mine at launch. It’ll be the gift that keeps on giving since Switch games are going to continue to be released at least until 2026.
You don’t live in Australia do you
All our games cost $100AUD even on steam
steam voice chat
PC exclusive games
Get every GameCube game for free instantly by pirating them
GameCube, Wii… Even switch if you can find an emulator fork that still works
Don’t forget Wii U! Oh, right, they ported everything worthwhile to the Switch.
something sonething those people who want wwhd/tphd
What Would Hellspawn Do?
Tony Pawk’s Pro Dater?
Tony Pawk’s Pro Dater?
Sounds like a parody porn game
Sidebar in my community has links for the surviving Switch emu forks, but I haven’t tried installing them on Linux/Deck yet.
Assume it’s going to be far more manual than a Flatpak or whatever for the time being :S
It literally is just install a flatpak, then configure the control scheme in the emu, maybe tweak some settings, add it to your steam library, map the steam controls to the emu controls in game mode.
EmuDeck/RetroDeck automate most of this or you can just find the individual emus in the Discover software center.
… They might actually perform better if you compiled the entire thing from source on your Deck, which is possible to do, but is significantly more of a hassle, gotta set up a root pw, turn off read only mode, hope you can actually find all the sources for the dependencies, know how to tune/tweak the compile parameters to optimally use the Deck’s hardware…
Ive gotten Ryujinx working via flatpak… but uh… lets just say I’d have to delve into OCing/PowerToolsing my Deck to get it to actually run many Switch/WiiU games at a playable framerate.
It works, its stable software wise… but the Deck isn’t quite powerful enough.
… Also, it could be that most modern emus are designed to map consoles onto traditional PC architecture, and ironically the Deck uses an APU which is closer to many consoles, so it doesn’t actually perform as well as it could with better support.
I’m just referring to possibly outdated package repos which may not have kept up with the forks and all the drama, but I could be easily wrong with outdated info. I haven’t touched my steam deck in a couple months :p
Well not instantly because you have to wait for your torrent client to download it
We already know that the steamdeck plays switch games better than the switch. It would be hilarious if it also plays switch2 games better than the switch2.
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Maybe not all games, but the two Zelda games run better on emulator than they do on Switch.
Metroid dread runs pretty great on Deck, too! But last I checked Mario odyssey is something like 10fps, same with the mario galaxy switch port 😢
Ah yes, the Deck vs. Switch debate. One offers performance and affordability, the other offers nostalgia at premium prices. Choose your fighter: the powerhouse or the Pokémon tax.
Considering the Steam Deck can run just about every console game ever made up to PS2 gen (and a good amount made after), I’d say they have the Switch 2 beat on nostalgia.
Yeah but not the memberberries kind!
Nintendo’s been hitting the memberberries for so long that 20 year old games have memberberry moments in them.
2005 GC games: Mario kart, smash, Mario party, animal crossing, Luigi’s mansion, Metroid, zelda
2025 SW games: Mario kart, smash, Mario party, animal crossing, Luigi’s mansion, Metroid, Zelda
Have we really not grown out of this “console war” bullshit mentality?
People can compare products you know.
People should compare products. Allegiance to one company gets you abused in the end every time.
The pricing of this is really going to fuck them.
BotW should be like $10 by now. The fucking DLC for it still costs twice that.
what are you talking about botw is free now
Where?
🏴☠️
Yeah but then you have to muck around with emulation.
I mean you could always pirate on device, though easier said than done on Switch (but the Wii U is rather easy to mod, would 100% recommend)
Modding an unpatched V1 Switch is pretty easy, the most difficult part is there’s like 2 main guides and if you try to get support from one group and they get clue that you’ve looked at/used the other guide they’ll say your config is trash and a ban risk lol
With switch you can real own a game, with steam you only have a license.
not with switch 2 though, the cartridges are only keys for the digital download as far as I’ve heard
This is misinformation, cartridges with Key will replace only gift cards
Right up until nintendo turns the switch 2 store off.
3ds store are of, and I buyed a game last month
Plus, steam dont will last forever
Not a Nintendo fanboy. But their own IP games are truly fun. That alone is enough incentive to buy the switch
To emulate* on my desktop 😌
This.
Yeah, this is the only reason I have a Switch. I’m a sucker for their first party games, and I will probably buy a Switch 2 for Mario Odyssey 2 alone.
Can anyone explain why there is so much hate against Nintendo?
See post image for answer, also ridiculous litigation for emulation.
Also ridiculous patent trolling.
It’s the internet hate machine. Everyone has hobbies, and some people’s hobby is to hate things. All kinds of things. Celebrities, sitcoms, children’s movies, but especially video games.
It doesn’t matter what you put into the internet hate machine; the only thing that comes out the other end is hatred. It’s not fact-based or even experience-based. It’s just pure negativity, perpetuated through shitty memes and circle jerk forum comments.
The claim in this meme isn’t even true. It was debunked days ago. Doesn’t matter. It’ll keep getting repeated by people on the internet who copied it from other people on the internet. The definition of a circle jerk.
The internet hate machine has killed lots of good media. It’s a shame to see Nintendo get caught up in it. I hope it doesn’t stick.
The whole basis of both the love and hate for Nintendo is that they are a 90s company with modern tech
Let’s be honest : the love is from one single thing - Nintendo’s game design.
Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.
The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who’ve never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.
Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships… except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.
And it SHOWS. Nintendo’s game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.
Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there’s a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.
Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.
Outside of their masterful gameplay design… Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney. Everyone else isn’t even Warner Bros. Animation Studios. They’re Hanna-Barbera.
It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.
rather give money to a Japanese company than an american one
I don’t care about the origin of a company as much as I do about whether or not they engaging anti-consumer practices.
I’d rather give money to the company with the more consumer-friendly device.
Japanese corporations are known for being unethical too to completely fair.
Correction: Black Companies in Japan are unethical
Black companies being the term for what you and I know as evil companies like amazon for example
This is like me saying
“European corporations are known for being unethical too to completely fair.” (Was going to use america in this example but that countries gone down the shitter) because some employers are unethical.
I hate how people online have some sort of hate boner for Japan where they take some small issue and say the entirety of Japan is like that.
I couldn’t really find the right wording. That was my bad.
Switch is versatile, can be played in more than one way
Clearly you don’t know much about the steam deck if you think the switch is more versatile
For a casual user? Definitely he Switch wins here.
If you have experience in Linux it opens up a lot more possibilities on the Steam Deck, but likewise, you can technically do that on a Switch too.
What are you talking about? You can click “go to desktop mode” on your steam deck and it will bring you to a desktop… like a normal computer…
You can’t do that on a Switch, or if you can you have to be an expert DIYer.
Don’t insult “casual” users by suggesting an optional desktop view where you can use your Steam Deck like a normal computer is “toooo much for the casual user”. Not it isn’t. The desktop view lets you use any web browser you want, lots of people need to use web browsers, that is only one example of why a “casual” user might use desktop mode on the Steam Deck.
No you way off the mark here, and so is Nintendo.
I can install Linux on a Switch. Hell, you can emulate Switch games on a Switch.
Go to desktop mode is not a “casual” feature at all. They barely know how to set the wifi connection, let alone manage a Linux environment…
I can install Linux on a Switch
I don’t need to install Linux on my Steam Deck, the software and device was designed from the ground up as a Linux computer.
I can also install Android on the Switch if you want. I don’t care. I have both and complete freedom om both. The Switch is simply the more comfortable option hardware wise, the SD is nice for the niche stuff.
You are making an absurd and obtuse argument, my Steam Deck functions out of the box as a normal computer.
Steam Deck runs SteamOS 3.0, a Linux-based operating system (OS) built on Arch Linux and the KDE Plasma desktop. It’s open source with some closed source components. Here’s a quick overview:
You are suggesting DIY installing android (eeww) as opposed to hmm… I forgot let me check how I get to the desktop on a vanilla out of the box Steam Deck running Linux.
Hold down your Steam Deck’s power button, and select “Switch to Desktop.” Wait a few seconds, and that’s it
Your argument is embarassingly bad, stop spreading lazy narratives when you don’t know what you are talking about.
Who the fuck is paying $90 for a Nintendo game? I didn’t pay half that for the whole Star Wars set.
Who the fuck is paying $90 for a Nintendo game?
No one, the most expensive games on Switch 2 so far are $80. The meme is spreading false information just to make people angry and farm upvotes.
Digital is 79.99. Physical game card is 89.99.
