Convenience doesn’t matter much to some people. When I get a Switch, I doubt I’ll ever play it undocked. I preferentially play Nintendo DS games on the Wii U Virtual Console rather than on my 3DS as I find it much more comfortable.
Exactly. I wish they’d make a non-portable switch too, since they already made a non-sociable one. That I’d buy. I have no interest in playing games away from my sofa.
> Everyone’s different, but to me it does not seem worth giving up the convenience of the Switch.
To me, the Switch's portability is irrelevant. I'm not really a "game on the go" guy, it's just the console I had to buy to play modern Mario and Metroid. It lives in its dock 99% of the time, only coming out when I go on vacation, and these days since I have a Steam Deck that will probably become 100% of the time.
When Nintendo announced the Switch Lite my immediate thought was how I'd love for them to do the exact opposite, give me a "Switch Heavy" that trades the screen and battery out for a faster SoC that can do 1080p instead of 720p and builds in all the features from the fancy dock that comes with the OLED model
I can honestly say that Ryujinx sold me on the Switch as well, back in the summer of 2020 I saw some news posts about the development of the emulator, grabbed it and a copy of Mario Maker 2, and proceeded to play through the entire single player campaign in one sitting, which made me decide to get a real one so I could get online and get the user created content. I set up a few auto-refreshers on various store web sites and in a week or so ended up getting an order confirmed on one.
Convenience is relative to how the rest of your life is arranged. Some people have easy enough access to their computer that switching to a Switch would be less convenient.
Tempting, but part of the draw of the Switch for me is its controller situation. I often play it propped up with the Joycons detached, one in each hand. Steam deck I would always have to hold in my hands, and can it be docked then?
I’ve thought about getting one, but I have a feeling the games that I want to play on a computer instead of my Switch won’t benefit.
You could achieve a similar setup with the Steam Deck by using a Bluetooth controller, either propped up as you do the Switch or plugged into a screen via its HDMI port.
