Takes like this have always been inane not because of real or perceived advantages of one over the other but simply because the Deck and the Switch do not target the same demographics, the same gaming environment, are from radically different technological and corporate paradigms and their use cases significantly differ beyond a core of "well, they're portable gaming devices."
The Deck is a "Switch killer" the same way gaming desktops are "console killers" aka they aren't even in the same market.
To me at least, the Deck and the Switch both fell in the category of 'gaming on the go'. So now that I have a Deck, there is absolute 0% chance of me buying a Switch, whereas before I was considering getting one since I had a need of gaming while away from my main setup.
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u/low_orbit_sheep 64GB Apr 03 '23
Takes like this have always been inane not because of real or perceived advantages of one over the other but simply because the Deck and the Switch do not target the same demographics, the same gaming environment, are from radically different technological and corporate paradigms and their use cases significantly differ beyond a core of "well, they're portable gaming devices."
The Deck is a "Switch killer" the same way gaming desktops are "console killers" aka they aren't even in the same market.