That’s a fair question which I have to cut a little short due to it being a huge topic:

The overhead of a full blown operating system you have to maintain is not a trivial thing. You have to update and maintain os, drivers and applications at least and it’s directed at all purpose use in general. That means all of the above and games might or might not fit well to a handheld device. Even if it’s maintained by a third party (eg Asus) there are many many moving parts that are all purpose. This might be a dialog box with unaccessible options you have to work around or games not working with the controls you need to fix and might never (for me steredenn on steam deck). You can however literally do what you want with it.

Compared to this a console is an optimized experience, golden cage. Things just work. Yes there might be the off chance but in general the producer has a system. 100% under their control and can test and optimize very well, which Nintendo debatably does.

Profit!!

Well, just in case anyone had doubt of priorities.

Well Windows is a no for me on that. And while the steam deck is nice and the OS runs on the ally too, it’s still a pc with all it’s pros and cons.

(I use both worlds BTW)

Don’t forget to mention the huge wattage.

More performance for me is more identical fps at the same amount of power.

Heave ho.

You’ll all have a blast.

That’s what I thought, too.

Schwein gehabt!

It’s called idiot tax. (hint: not the discounted price)

What is the English term? Obeying in advance?

Soooo… Without capitalism?

It’s a bubble.

A friend of mine who bought it clearly states that that’s never going to get anywhere. But he’s only paid a regular amount and accepted the risk and loss.

Yes, I meant that, sorry and thanks (if nobody says anything it has the tendency to stick) . Typo and not native.

I don’t know.

Some people are defending things tooth and nail when trying to reason. Not only things like this either, might be something purchased or some ideology.

I have a really hard time emphasizing.

It is a difference if you get stuff prepackaged in a uniform format.

But full agreement on the rest, yes with steam tendency to include drm (especially if new aaa) and gog hopefully not (but sometimes failing) as it still is their selling point.

Okay let’s chalk this up to some language barrier or cultural misunderstanding then. 😁

Thanks.

Err… You often don’t have the files drm free on Steam. Nor in an installable format (without steam).

Anyhow. Seeing the down votes I’d love for some to elaborate.

Otherwise it just looks like some rampant steam fanboys.

While that may be partly true, (also likely) depending on the county you’re located, they’re not able to revoke the license though.

So in this specific case you having the files makes a world of difference.

The most important point of venture capital isn’t even mentioned.

To me this is way too much like extortion. The more they do this the less I want to give them money.

Also I need to be logged on everywhere, which I don’t want to (have to), mostly for privacy and data harvesting reasons.

It also does not help that when I want to see something and jump around in a video, I get the same ad 30 times. No exaggeration.