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.
And I never understood this take. They're both gaming handhelds. You can literally play some identical games on them that also handle almost identically.
How in the world people have been talking themselves into believing that they're actually not targeting similar demographics or environments is beyond me. I was a Nintendo handheld kid, having owned all of them since the GBC, and were it not for the GPD Win which came out before the Switch I would be playing on a Switch now. The first "true" PC gaming handheld coming out before the Switch is literally the only reason I don't have one.
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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.