• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    “$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”

    It’s a 60Hz vs 120Hz screen, and it’s got true 1080p resolution. It’s certainly on-par with the Steam Deck in terms of performance and performance per dollar. The price isn’t ridiculous by any stretch.

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      24 hours ago

      The price isn’t ridiculous by any stretch

      The thing for me is: The Switch is only a closed-down console. You can only buy games through the nintendo store. The Steam Deck is open. I can play my older games, even physical games via external optical drive, on my Steam Deck.

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      “$450 is an insanely high price for a new console, so I’m going to buy a $400 2 year old console instead.”

      Sure. But it’s also a choice between a library that will forever cost $70 00-$90.00 per game, and a game library infamous for game sales so good that an average player cannot finish their library because the seasonal sales are too good to pass up.

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      A $400 2 year old console that I can sideload games onto, yes. Nintendo’s strength has been “weaker hardware, cheaper price” since the Wii. Now they want to price themselves alongside Sony and Microsoft? No thanks.