"Don't compare these devices, it's apples and oranges! One is a closed ecosyꦦstem and locked down device by an anti-consumer corporat💮ion, and the other isn't!"

— That's what these arguments basically boil down to every time. They just try to frame it with fancy, positive words like "exclusive" a🐽nd "dedicated". Sales numbers and mainstream don't matter either when you're trying to✤ figure out which device is best for you, that just poisons the well.

The biggest irony is that the Steam Deck is capable of playing vastly more "exclusive" N𒀰intendo titles than the Switch itself, but oh no, we can't mention the bꦯad E or P words even though in reality nobody cares if you do that in private, and I mean literally no one.

I'm sorry I have to comment twic🔯e but this article is so baffling to me and it took me som🍬e time to even make sense of it, so I'm back Essentially, aside from the general ignorance regarding PC gaming as a whole, the author wants to eat their cake and have it too. On one hand, they want the open platform that allows them to use their free Epic games, so they have a huge library they didn't need to pay for to begin with, only possible thanks to an open ecosystem and aggressive competition. But then, they don't want to put in the work that comes with an open ecosystem. They say: I want the Steam Deck to be a console, super simple for me to use with Valve curated titles And then they say: Epic games should also just work just like that This is literally contradictory. Valve cannot possibly integrate the Epic launcher into their own ecosystem in order to make everything "just work" like on a console. It is not their launcher, even if they wanted to help the competition out, they couldn't do it if they wanted to. This article makes no sense at all

A laptop is a PC so the very first paragraph is already very confusing. There is nothing stopping anyone from hooking a pre-built mini PC up to a TV at all so apparently your point is you don't like sitting at a desk, which has nothing to do with the PC as a platform There is no constant obsolescence with GPUs, upgrading is optional for many years You don't have to jailbreak a Steam Deck, it's literally an open platform, a PC. It just runs a Linux-based OS by default and the fault of other launchers not supporting Linux lies not 🎃with the Steam Deck. They in fact give you the tools you need pre-inatalled to run these competitor platforms right from Valve's own game mode despite them being only made for Windows. This is the complete opposite of devices that need jailbreaking The Steam Deck is a PC, I don't know what the point of this article is trying to claim the opposite It is also a console by your own admission; but while for some reason you don't seem to mind having to buy a whole new library from scratch for the Switch or other consoles, with Steam that is suddenly an issue to you?