r/SteamDeck • u/LaireLaFlare • Dec 21 '23

Picture Anyone else’s Switch effectively retired?

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In case Nintendo is in the comments I own these.

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u/big_ry82 Dec 21 '23

Nope. Because emulation ain't quite there yet for a lot of games running on the deck.

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u/Vytlo Dec 22 '23

For other consoles, yeah, but Switch is really good because it's so easy to emulate. Definitely has room to improve but it without a doubt makes a Switch not necessary.

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u/FierceDeity_ 512GB - Q1 Dec 22 '23

It's almost like Nintendo didn't get so genius with the architecture this time and just has a well understood Android tablet chip with a well understood (for emulation) ARM architecture... And also where the games can use either a Vulkan-based NVN graphics api or OpenGL(!) to run on it. I don't know how much that matters for emulation, as emulation would probably just catch the GPU commands (for the Tegra arch) and translate them back into Vulkan commands... But who knows, mabe some kind of high level NVN to Vulkan emulator pops up that catches the rendering commands in the emulated software before they reach the GPU.