Valve's popular handheld gaming PC recently passed 14,200 officially rated games, meaning there's never been a better time to own one.

This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21835717

  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The steam deck library includes the entire switch library via emulation, so Yeah Obviously. (Ik they’re not counting emulation, but my point is that the steam deck is a PC, which makes it much more versatile)

    • Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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      They just talk about Steam games that were verified by Valve’s process. So yeah, as you said, it’s much larger for people who are willing to do a tiny bit of tinkering 👍

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
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    I like the Deck, but lately been using my Switch again because I like the battery life and the smaller form factor sometimes. I hope Valve releases a Deck that is a little easier to slip into a bag and that can do a bit better than 1.5-2.5 hours of battery life.

    I’ll still use my Deck, but in some cases where the same game I want is available on Switch and I am traveling, I will choose the Switch for its form factor.

    • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      For me, I have come to appreciate switch lite form factor to be honest. I like the deck too but its too bulky for me personally. I fucking love vita and 3ds lite but small size has it cons suck as underpowered cpu, battery etc but damn it i like it fit enough on most pocket and easily slid into bag.

    • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
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      Battery life seems a tad low unless you’re playing somewhat demanding games. The Steam Deck does have some power optimization settings you can use to up your battery life, and you can set them on a per-game basis. I haven’t played with them myself, but I think they’re in the menu that comes up with the … Button on the right side.

  • Emmie@lemm.ee
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    It doesn’t matter that much as long as Nintendo switch is considered more cool for general public which it still is due to deck being kinda black and nerdish

    Is deck objectively better? Sure but the power of social conformity is near limitless as we can see from apple stock valuation

  • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 måned siden

    I don’t game much anymore but when I do, I grab my Deck and go snuggle next to the fam while they watch dumb TV and I play dumb old single player games that run beautifully on the hardware.

    • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      Given that compatibility improvements can essentially only be expected from Ryujinx now though, does Ryujinx run as well as Yuzu on the Deck? Ideally I’d like to switch to it entirely unless a viable Yuzu successor emerges, but I’ve heard that it’s not as resource efficient in comparison.

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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          It doesn’t seem like there’s much ongoing work on suyu, which isn’t surprising since emulators are difficult to develop. Not many people have the necessary knowledge and are willing to work for free.

          So yes, suyu is there for people who need it for it’s performance, but it seems likely that Ryunjinx continues to improve while suyu won’t change much in terms of performance and compatibility.

          It’s great for the games that are already running well though, especially on low end hardware like the Steam Deck.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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        In my opinion it’s not “as good” as yuzu, for now. That said it still runs about anything I throw at it, but yuzu did it better with higher frame rates.

      • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 måned siden

        Yuzu is better overall, but Ryujinx works weirdly better for certain games. Like, Mario Wonder runs about 40% better for me on Ryujinx for some reason.

    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
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      According to this website, there are about 11k switch games. There are some duplicates on that list though, games which have multiple “editions” will have an entry under each version. For example, Xenoblade Chronicles DE is listed 4 times to cover different regional collectors editions.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      Uhhh yeah of course it’s a cash grab, it’s a product from a for-profit business. They want to make money from it. Valve is trying to grab cash too.

      And eh, the deck isn’t better in all departments. It costs significantly more, it’s far bulkier, you can’t share your physical game cartridges with friends/family, the battery life is worse, couch gaming isn’t as refined, detachable joycons are great, the switch is better at split screen gaming especially considering you don’t need to buy any extra controllers to do it, etc.

      I have a Switch and a Steam Deck, I’ve played on both for thousands of hours. They’re both good devices.

      Liking one doesn’t mean you have to hate the other one. They’re not even directly comparable. Sure they seem similar on the surface, but IMO they’re pretty different devices with less overlap than you’d expect.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      This is a really weird rant. Nintendo and Steam operate in two different markets. Nintendo is on the game console industry. Valve is on PC gaming.

      Yes, you can play Nintendo games on PC, and by extension, Steam Deck.

      But in no way is Nintendo interested in PC gaming.

      • EnderMB@lemmy.world
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        That’s not fair. The switch is a great console for indie games.

        Obviously, so is the Steam Deck, but that doesn’t discount the Switch for having a solid library of games outside of the usual Nintendo shite.

  • Everett@reddthat.comEnglish
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    My wife adamantly refused to get a Steam Deck for herself, saying that she would never give up her Switch.

    Cut to one year out from buying one for her, and the Switch has been in a bin almost the entire time.

  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I wanted to buy a switch for the longest time, but after Nintendo being cunts, I will buy the deck and simply emulate any and all Nintendo games. They don’t deserve any less

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    1 måned siden

    This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process.

    I was gonna say that number sounded VERY low.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    1 måned siden

    That difference seems far lower than I would have guessed.

    Oh. The “verified” status accounts for the difference. That’s fair.

    My initial mental math was including unverified Indie games I already bought for my PC, most of which happen to work perfectly.

    I expect that difference to go up fast over the next few years as more indie devs discover that they don’t actually need to change many of their old games to get verified.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
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      Yeah, even the “playable” tag i have to check what they mean by that. Psychonauts 1 and 2 are “playable” but both need you to manually pull up the keyboard and show xbox controls… Like okay? That’s all? They play perfectly.

      I also downloaded an indie game “tonight we riot” and its not even tested. Want to geuss how well it plays? Spoiler, perfectly fine.

      I’m genuinely greatful for steam personally pushing for more games to work well in linux even if the game needs a compatibility layer like Wine or proton.