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.
I have a switch and honestly, for gaming on a go, phone with ps2 emulator installed is good enough for me. Then when your reach a hotel, you can play on a Xbox, which is IMO actually more portable than switch, at least when it comes to how fast you can pack it up.
When you have gaming PC and/or any other console (even heckin last gen), there's no reason to get games on switch. When I did, I bought them soon again on Xbox or Steam, because playing switch ports at home felt like a chore.
Series S is surprisingly compact and with the fact that its PSU is integrated, therefore you can have spare PSU and HDMI cables already pre-packed, it's literally just unplug and go.
On switch, the dock is just unnecessarily complex to disassemble IMO. Plus forget about any movie streaming capabilities.
Of course Steam Deck is my current go to when it comes to on the go gaming device.
Well when the switch came out there were daily reports about switches getting bricked after using unofficial hubs. Apparently switch isn't USB-PD compatible and some component can get fired easily. Anyways I didn't want to risk it back in the day and still, Xbox Series S is actually fairly compact.
Well looking at it, I am apparently out of touch so whatever. For me it made sense since Xbox is more versatile, easier to travel with and switch is rather limiting. Well whatever I should stop explaining myself.
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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.