N64/GC sure (if you’re okay with letterboxed screen) although not the most efficient use of battery. Switch is debatable since compatibility is not there and won’t improve anytime soon. With DS/3DS you must be joking, it’s a different form factor entirely. Do yourself a favour and get a DS Lite and a flashcart, they’re dirt cheap and it’s just super convenient device. I’d say the same for 3DS but they are ridiculously expensive these days for some reason, glad I got mine years ago.

Is it more or less convenient than just not having it at all??

I've been playing Switch games just fine on my SD. Currently playing Fire Emblem Engage which runs flawlessly, Three Houses also runs well. The Same is true for many (most) of the Switch library. I already have a 3DS but the Steam Deck can handle those games too. Likewise NDS games, the games play just fine. I only play a handle of games on each system. It's nice to have my entire game library on one device, especially on the road.

I like companies that make games, sure, but I also like companies that make it easier for me to play games, which Valve does. You can use Steam OS to play PC games you got from anywhere and the Steam Deck is a handheld PC that provides a console-like experience. You're too hung up on Steam itself, which you don't even have to buy into at all to use a Steam Deck to play games.

>par for the course for libertarians. golly i didn’t realize identity politics had such a large role in console preferences, TIL

I can get a lot more than that out of my OLED.

Depending on the game, I can get 4 hours or so on my OG Steam Deck, but AAA games can burn through it in under 2 hours.

What the fuck does economics have with idpol.

i reckon the disconnect came around the initial labeling. you GOTTA understand it’s not apolitical to call someone a libertarian in your opening line, right? also you’re literally putting someone in a box *as an opener*. folks generally don’t like that. like if this reply started with “par for the course for a centrist”, you wouldn’t think i’m a cool and understanding guy for saying it.

Approach to monopolies is a political thing and that was as free market approach as you can get. Guy self described himself as anarchist in the next comment so I was right to label him that.

i had no idea anarchist and libertarian were synonyms, TIL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_anarchism_and_libertarianism

if they felt the need to correct you, then your explanation of why they were wrong in doing so isn’t gonna tell me anything other than how stubborn you are. i’m unsure of who you’re trying to convince what at this point.

I’m not really convincing that guy since I doubt he debates in good faith. He represents American brand of libertarianism - think Elon Musk simps. Old school libertarians like Adam Smith recognised that a free market doesn’t exist without state regulation. At this point I’m just exposing how childish that American libertarianism is although it seems to be very popular amongst gamers and this community in particular. I don’t mind being inconvenient to people and I know it makes people pause since those mass downvotes say more about them than about me.

i just think you’re assuming *a lot* from a few comments here.

I’ve been hanging around here for over a year, I know the vibe.

so it’s >1 year that you get telepathy?

I’m both dumber and smarter than anyone realises. Saying things that lead to „told you so” is like going through motions now.

You are not exposing stuff. You are acting like a childish jerk who stubbornly ignores other people for your own sense of righteousness. Doubling down and refusing to listen to others does not make you a better person in the long run.

You sound like your main issue is that I don’t attempt to fit in. You’ll have to deal with that.