Gaming

I was always a Nintendo/PC gamer. I made the move the week my Steam Deck shipped (Q3er). I hacked my launch switch and dumped all my my switch games that I didn't own but were available on PC (for example, DOOM 2016 was skipped but Daemon X Machina was not). I have those dumped games backed up on my computer, but I just have them all on an SD card for the Steam Deck!

Mostly everything I've tried has run pretty much perfectly. A while ago Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 had some pretty major texture issues but within the last few months there were some major strides for switch emulation and that seems to have effectively solved a majority of the issues I had run into with the games.

I'm now most of the way through MUA3 on the Steam Deck :) I've also got the trilogy all one one console :) format shifting, library consolidation, that's what the Steam Deck is all about!

I used the hacked switch for a little while, there are some interesting things it can accomplish but it hasn't been used at all since then. Even before the Steam Deck I had just hardly been using it, and now having the ability to make any control scheme I want make it the easy choice every time.

The Steam Deck is incredible but it's the Steam Input API that convinced me with the Steam Controller it was worth it.